PRACTICAL LAW WHERE INFORMATION BECOMES KNOW HOW

“Practical Law is global, reliable and instant, bringing country-specific know how for different disciplines to our doorstep. Empowerment is just a click away.”

ALICE RAMOHLOLA, SENIOR LIBRARIAN, BOWMAN GILFILLAN

“Practical Law is global, reliable and instant, bringing country-specific know how for different disciplines to our doorstep. Empowerment is just a click away.”

ALICE RAMOHLOLA, SENIOR LIBRARIAN, BOWMAN GILFILLAN, SOUTH AFRICA

LEGAL KNOW HOW HELPS YOU WORK FASTERAccess to high-quality legal know how can transform the way legal professionals work. It provides a quality-assured head start, meaning you don’t have to start from scratch each time you work on a new transaction.

It can save you hours of time when drafting documents or searching for answers to your daily questions. It also reduces the amount of time and resource you need to spend on creating your own internal know how and keeping it up to date.

BUT WHAT IS LEGAL KNOW HOW?

We believe it’s the practical resources that help you to perform your jobs more efficiently.

Many lawyers around the world already rely on specialist publishers like Sweet & Maxwell, and online services like Westlaw for their legal research.

More than 100,000 lawyers worldwide also rely on Practical Law for high quality up-to-date know how, which enables them to draft more efficiently, compare international laws more quickly and advise with more confidence.

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WHAT IS PRACTICAL LAW AND WHY DO YOU NEED IT?Practical Law provides online legal know how resources, including precedents or standard documents, which can be used as they are or tailored for international transactions, saving vast amounts of time. Resources are created and kept up to date by our team of editors – all of who have significant practice experience gained in law firms, companies and organisations around the world – and a range of expert contributors.

Why do legal professionals outside of the UK and US use Practical Law?

– To get a head start by accessing resources written in plain English, based not just on the law but on general market practice, which can be easily tailored for use under the law of other jurisdictions

– To save time when drafting documents – Practical Law has a massive bank of precedents for both English and US law that can form the starting point when drafting international legal documents

– To understand local market practice, as well as compare differences in local laws and know the key questions to ask when instructing local counsel

– To get up to speed quickly on issues regularly encountered when advising on the legal and practical aspects of cross-border work, such as acquisitions

– To have easy access to up-to-date and invaluable information and data about UK, US , Chinese and European laws and markets

– To save external spend by becoming a multi-jurisdictional resource for their company or firm

– To advise confidently in unfamiliar jurisdictions, using comparative guides to the law worldwide, covering all the major economies

– To keep on top of legal and regulatory developments by signing up for legal updates written by experts, telling what you need to know and why

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PRACTICE NOTES

Clear explanations of the law and how it applies in practice, covering all the major practice areas, from quick notes and overviews to detailed guidance.

STANDARD DOCUMENTS

Market standard precedents, clauses and letters with integrated drafting notes for a head start when drafting.

CHECKLISTS AND FLOWCHARTS

Quick reference reminders for use in common transactions to help you ensure you have everything covered.

LEGAL UPDATES

Daily, weekly and monthly legal updates, written by our experts, telling you what you need to know and why.

MULTI-JURISDICTIONAL GUIDES

Comparative Q&A guides to the law worldwide, written by leading international and local firms with Country Q&A comparison tool.

DRAFTING TOOLS

FastDraft automated drafting, Annotation for sharing notes on resources and FirmStyle for converting documents to your house style.

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THE RESOURCES Our practical know how resources are designed to help you work faster. Whether that’s giving you a head start with a market-leading precedent, providing how-to guidance on the law with an integrated drafting note or helping you mitigate risk with a checklist.

Know how resources contain direct links to cases and legislation on Westlaw UK, Westlaw Next in the US and Westlaw China, allowing you to dig deeper and examine the law for yourself.

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US Highlights

• Vast bank of practice notes covering all the major US practice areas

• Up-to-date, market standard documents, clauses, letters with integrated drafting notes

• Checklists and flowcharts to help you mitigate risk

• Daily, weekly and monthly legal updates, written by our experts

• Podcasts, webinars and events

• Drafting tools including FastDraft automated drafting, Annotation and FirmStyle

THE COVERAGEWe offer three Core Country services: United Kingdom, United States and China. We also provide international know how covering EU Law and International Arbitration, as well as essential resources for working across borders.

Practice areas

Arbitration (England and Wales)CommercialCompetitionConstructionCorporateDispute ResolutionEmploymentEnvironmentFamilyFinanceFinancial ServicesIP&ITMedia & TelecomsPensionsPrivate ClientPropertyPublic Sector LawRestructuring and InsolvencyShare Schemes & IncentivesTax

Highlights

• Vast bank of practice notes covering all the major UK practice areas

• Up-to-date, market standard documents, clauses, letters with integrated drafting notes fit for UK or international transactions

• Checklists and flowcharts to help you mitigate risk

• Daily, weekly and monthly legal updates, written by our experts

• Podcasts, webinars and events

• Ask legal query service

• Drafting tools including FastDraft automated drafting, Annotation and FirmStyle

Practice areas

AntitrustBankruptcyCapital Markets & SecuritiesCommercialCorporate and M&AEmployee Benefits & Executive CompensationFinanceIntellectual Property & TechnologyLabor & EmploymentLitigation: FederalReal EstateTax

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INTERNATIONAL COLLECTIONS

EU LAW

MULTI-JURISDICTIONAL GUIDES

CHINA

INTERNATIONAL ARBITRATION

Transactional support for lawyers doing business in China. The content is broken up into easy-to-use toolkits which help you find the information you need quickly.

Toolkits

Legal fundamentalsInbound mergers and acquisitionsGlobal mergers and acquisitionsEstablishing a businessCommercial agreements and boilerplateArbitration and dispute resolutionIP fundamentals

Highlights

• More than 100 international standard documents and clauses, localised to work under Chinese law

• Integrated drafting notes with practical tips on what you need to do differently in China

• Practice notes with clear and detailed how-to guidance to support foreign investment activity in China

• China glossary with clear definitions for nearly 100 commonly-used Chinese legal terms, regulatory authorities and types of agreement, in English and written Chinese

ArbitrationCapital MarketsCartel LeniencyCompetitionConstruction and ProjectsCorporate Crime, Fraud and InvestigationsCorporate Governance & Directors' DutiesCorporate Real EstateData ProtectionDispute ResolutionDoing Business in...Employee Share Plans

Employment and Employee BenefitsEnergy and Natural ResourcesEnvironmentEstablishing a Business in...FinanceInsurance and ReinsuranceInvestment FundsIP in Business TransactionsJoint VenturesLife SciencesMediaOutsourcing

Private ClientPrivate AcquisitionsPrivate Company AcquisitionsPrivate Equity and Venture CapitalPublic Mergers and AcquisitionsPublic ProcurementRestructuring and InsolvencySales and MarketingStructured Finance and SecuritisationTax on Transactions

Detailed coverage of UK and international arbitration law, as well as other key jurisdictions, including the US, Switzerland, France, Germany, China and Singapore.

Weekly updates and daily alerts of EU developments affecting your sector or practice area, EU legislation trackers, articles on hot topics and an EU Research toolkit.

Q&A overviews of law and regulation in more than 30 practice areas and more than 60 countries, written by leading lawyers, with analysis articles and a Country Q&A comparison tool.

Key resources for lawyers advising across borders, organised by practice area, as well as international transaction guides.

Global search gives you a single starting point to scour all the resources on Practical Law

Expand the Global mega-menu tabs to navigate directly to UK or US practice areas or country resources

Dive into one of our Regional Portals to get quick access to the most popular documents and resources for that region

Choose a Core Country service for comprehensive know how for that jurisdiction

When you’re working across borders, access our international know how services

The latest legal updates from our EU, EU Competition and International Arbitration services

Country Q&As provide high level overviews of the law

YOUR PRACTICAL LAW HOMEPAGE

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REGIONAL PORTALS

We know that our customers around the world use our services differently. That’s why we’ve created regional portals for Australia and New Zealand, Asia and the Middle East (with more regions to be added in 2014).

These portals are gateways to the resources most popular with subscribers in those regions, providing a faster, more convenient way for you to find what you need on Practical Law.

The portals are a new starting point for your searches. A new way to begin your browsing. They’re our way of giving you a head start on your research.

1. MOST POPULAR STANDARD DOCUMENTS

Standard documents and clauses most frequently used by lawyers in the region. Find the right starting point for drafting your agreement quickly and with confidence using our comprehensive list, which contains all the variants of those featured resources across Practical Law.

2. MOST POPULAR TOPICS

The most popular subject areas for lawyers across the region, with direct links to the most frequently accessed know how resources – practice notes, checklists, toolkits, guides, documents and clauses – for each of those areas, from across our core country services.

3. COUNTRY ESSENTIALS

The most popular overview resources for countries in that region, saving you precious clicks. Need to know how the law on a particular point differs between Hong Kong and Singapore? Use the Country Q&A comparison to get a straight answer, fast.

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MEET THE TEAMOur quality starts with our people. Our team of more than 300 experts have significant practice experience gained in law firms, companies and organisations around the world.

We also work with top law firms to ensure that our resources reflect current law and market practice and we liaise regularly with our consultation boards and our contributors, all practising lawyers and leaders in their fields.

Here are just a few of our team members.

SOPHIE CAMERON

SARA CATLEY

JUDITH PAIN

HELEEN VAN LIL-GIJBELS

SAIRA SINGH

Sophie qualified into the Litigation department of Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, before moving to the Employment department of Bates, Wells & Braithwaite, where she specialised in contentious and advisory employment work for individuals and charities and regularly appeared in the employment tribunal. Sophie was also a Visiting Research Fellow at the Fawcett Society in 2005 and co-authored a report on the reform of gender equality legislation. Sophie is head of Practical Law China.

Sara trained at Slaughter and May and qualified into the Tax group in 2001. She joined Practical Law in 2005 as an analyst writing on key market trends across all practice areas. In 2008, Sara helped launch Practical Law’s US services and then became head of Practical Law’s Cross-border service. Sara now leads Practical Law’s international subscription services, developing our international content and looking after the needs of our international customers.

Judith was a transactional lawyer in the property department of Allen & Overy for seven years, before becoming a professional support lawyer and a founding member of the London Professional Support Lawyers Group. In June 2000 she joined Practical Law to head up the Property service. Judith is now head of UK Practice Areas for Practical Law.

Heleen joined Practical Law in December 2009 and is Head of Practical Law EU. Heleen studied Private and International Law at the Erasmus University Rotterdam. Since then, she has worked as an in-house lawyer for the Rotterdam Port Authorities and as a knowledge management lawyer for several international law firms, including Nauta Dutilh and Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer.

Saira qualified as a solicitor in 1994 with Lovell White Durrant (now Hogan Lovells), where she specialised in commercial and insurance litigation and arbitration, with an emphasis on contractual disputes and professional negligence claims. In 2001, she became a professional support lawyer in the Dispute Resolution and Arbitration practice at Lovells. She joined Practical Law in May 2009 and is now head of Arbitration. She also sits as a Deputy District Judge (Civil) on the Midland Circuit in the UK.

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