Lexis+® Hong Kong Practical Guidance

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Lexis+® Hong Kong Practical Guidance guides you through court applications and laying out legal drafting precedents for you to draft at ease. Adopting the new workflow from a wide range of unique practical legal materials and resources across eight different practice areas, written by experienced Hong Kong legal experts.

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Practice Areas:

Banking & Finance

    Navigate the complex terrain of consumer and specialised financing with expert banking and finance practitioners as your guide. Navigate the complex terrain of consumer and specialised financing with expert banking and finance practitioners as your guide.

    Topics covered:
  • Regulation
  • Lending
  • Consumer Credit
  • Borrowing
  • Securities – Real Property
  • Securities – Personal Property
  • Guarantees
  • Acquisition finance
  • Asset finance
  • Project finance
  • Real estate finance
  • Derivatives
  • Key developments

Business

    Stay secure when starting or selling a business. From instructions on corporate, contract and property law to disputes, franchising, finance and insolvency, the Business module keeps you tethered.

    Topics covered:
  • Agency
  • Business Disputes
  • Business Structures
  • Commercial Law Property
  • Contract Law
  • Corporations Law
  • Doing business overseas
  • Finance and Securities
  • Franchising and licensing
  • Insolvency
  • International Content
  • International Financial Markets Guide
  • Purchase and Sale of Business
  • Personal Property Securities
  • Trusts

Competition

    Stay on top of your competition law requirements with Practical Guidance Competition.

    Topics covered:
  • Competition regulatory framework
  • Current issues in competition law
  • Defining markets
  • Anti-competitive conduct
  • Cartel conduct
  • Exclusive dealing
  • Misuse of market power
  • Access services
  • Exemptions
  • Mergers
  • Regulatory investigations and enforcement powers
  • Competition law litigation
  • Competition law compliance
  • Penalties & remedies
  • International content

Consumer

    Navigate and get a clear view of the laws, codes, regulations, and procedures that affect how businesses interface with consumers.

    Topics covered:
  • Regulatory framework
  • Contracting
  • Consumer credit
  • Advertising, promotions and marketing
  • Misleading and deceptive conduct
  • Sales practices
  • E-commerce
  • Product safety
  • Warranties and consumer guarantees
  • Investigations, enforcement and remedies
  • Industry based dispute resolution schemes

Corporations

    Understanding and managing ESG with Practical Guidance Corporations.

    Topics covered:
  • Business structures
  • Basic features and constitution of a company
  • Corporate governance
  • Directors and officers
  • Shares and transactions affecting share capital
  • Financial reporting and disclosure
  • Related party transactions
  • Signing and communication
  • Mergers and acquisitions essentials
  • Corporate financing essentials
  • Financial services and markets
  • Managed investment schemes
  • Meetings
  • Insolvency and restructuring essentials
  • Deregistration and reinstatement
  • Foreign companies
  • Consumer law essentials
  • Competition law essentials
  • ESG (Environment, Social and Governance) risk essentials
  • Intellectual Property law essentials
  • International content

Criminal

    Assist your clients when they can’t see the forest for the trees. Use this guide to advise on criminal matters in NSW, Vic, Qld and WA.

    Topics covered:
  • Arret
  • Bail
  • Summary offences – Local/Magistrates Court procedure
  • Committals procedure
  • Indictable offences procedure
  • Sentencing
  • Appeals
  • Juvenile justice
  • Costs and ancillary orders
  • Assault

Cybersecurity, Data Protection & Privacy

    Be prepared with the right tools to advise on cybersecurity matters in a rapidly changing legal landscape.

    Topics covered:
  • Data security
  • Mandatory data breach notification
  • Transfer of data
  • Cybersecurity strategy
  • Emerging technology
  • Privacy
  • EU general data protection regulation (GDPR)
  • China’s Personal Information Protection Law (PIPL)
  • Consumer Data Rights
  • Freedom of Information (GIPA Act)
  • Digital currency and blockchain
  • International content

Dispute Resolution

    Guide your clients through as they deal with matters in the Australian federal & state courts and tribunals.

    Topics covered:
  • Fundamentals of dispute resolution
  • Costs and pre-action
  • Cth — Federal Court
  • Cth — Federal Circuit and Family Court (Division 2)
  • NSW — Supreme Court
  • NSW — District Court
  • NSW — Local Court
  • NSW — Civil and Administrative Tribunal
  • Qld — Supreme Court
  • Qld — District Court
  • Qld — Magistrates Court
  • Qld — Civil and Administrative Tribunal
  • Vic — Supreme Court
  • Vic — County Court
  • Vic — Magistrates' Court
  • WA — Supreme Court
  • WA — Magistrates Court
  • WA — State Administrative Tribunal
  • SA — Supreme Court
  • ACT — Supreme Court (coming soon)
  • International Content — Dispute resolution
  • International Content — Enforcement of foreign judgments
  • International Content — Litigation funding

Employment

    Guide your clients through the employment law landscape from recruitment and contract formation to termination of employment and post-employment restraints.

    Topics covered:
  • Starting work
  • Work relationships
  • Employment contracts
  • Conditions of employment
  • Fair treatment in the workplace
  • Ending employment
  • Modern awards
  • Enterprise agreements
  • Enterprise bargaining
  • Unions
  • Industrial action
  • Fair work system
  • Benefits and tax
  • Senior executives and officers
  • Managing workforce issues in business transactions
  • Labour supply chain
  • Restraints of trade and confidentiality
  • International content

Family

    Oversee family law matters from divorce and annulment to dispute resolution and property settlement.

    Topics covered:
  • Relationships
  • Divorce and nullity
  • Dispute resolution and settlement
  • Urgent orders
  • Financial agreements
  • Children
  • Maintenance and support
  • Property
  • Enforcement
  • Appeals
  • Costs
  • Adoption

Governance

    Lead the way for your organisation through regulatory requirements, reporting and disclosure, risk management and work health and safety for your organisation.

    Topics covered:
  • Legal framework and regulatory compliance
  • Corporate governance
  • Board of directors
  • Company meetings
  • Governance and the company secretary
  • Risk management
  • Corporate structure
  • Financial distress
  • Work health and safety
  • Tax related obligations
  • Not-for-profits
  • International governance topics

In-house Advisor

    Your guide to success as a valued business partner.

    Topics covered:
  • Managing a legal department
  • Operational management
  • Risk management
  • Contract essentials
  • Outsourcing and procurement
  • Training for your business
  • In-house insights (videos)
  • International Content

Insolvency & Restructuring

    When your client needs emergency gear, stay secure through winding up, administration, liquidation and receivership.

    Topics covered:
  • Directors and insolvency
  • Statutory demands
  • Voluntary administration
  • Restructuring
  • Winding up
  • Insolvency Practice Schedule
  • Receivership
  • Creditor schemes of arrangement
  • Insolvency and restructuring court applications
  • Effects of external administration on leases and other contracts
  • Bankruptcy
  • Cross-border insolvency
  • Signing documents
  • International content

Intellectual Property

    If your client’s original view needs original protection strategies, use this module for intellectual property matters in Australia and New Zealand.

    Topics covered:
  • IP fundamentals
  • IP strategy
  • Copyright protection
  • Registering designs
  • Registering and challenging patents
  • Registering and challenging trademarks
  • International protection
  • Creating and Using IP in Universities
  • Commercialising IP
  • IP management
  • IP and E-Commerce
  • Disputes
  • Indigenous Cultural IP
  • New Zealand content: IP fundamentals; registering and maintaining IP in NZ; disputes
  • International content

Mergers & Acquisitions

    Align your gear and focus on strategic M&A with this supportive guidance on private and public M&A transactions.

    Topics covered:
  • Private – Share purchase
  • Private – Asset purchase
  • Public – Takeovers
  • Public – Schemes of arrangement
  • Initial public offerings
  • Secondary fundraising
  • Incorporated joint ventures
  • Related legal considerations – Foreign Investment Review Board
  • Tax and stamp duty considerations (Private – share purchase)
  • Tax and stamp duty considerations (Private – asset purchase)
  • Tax and stamp duty considerations (Public – Takeovers and schemes of arrangement)
  • Related legal considerations – Competition and consumer
  • International Content

Personal Injury NSW

    Focus on being the Personal Injury expert at your client’s fingertips – and don’t miss the time-saving Personal Injury Calculator toolkit!

    Topics covered:
  • General procedures and the UCPR
  • Preparation of the claim
  • The common law and the Civil Liability Act
  • Motor Vehicle Accidents — pre 1 December 2017
  • Motor Vehicle Accidents — post 1 December 2017
  • Workplace injuries – workers compensation
  • Work injury damages
  • Medical negligence
  • Occupiers’ liability and public liability
  • Claims under the Compensation to Relatives Act
  • Nervous shock claims
  • Dust diseases claims
  • Total and permanent disability claims
  • Medical information
  • National Disability Insurance Scheme
  • Intentional torts
  • Civil claims for institutional abuse
  • Miscellaneous claims
  • Safety, Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 1988 (Cth) and Comcare

Personal Injury Qld

    Our Personal Injury modules offer step-by-step advice supported by relevant cases, precedents and tools so you can focus on being the expert at your client’s fingertips.

    Topics covered:
  • Pre-court procedures under the Personal Injuries Proceedings Act 2002 (Qld)
  • General procedures (court procedures)
  • The common law and the Civil Liability Act 2003 (Qld)
  • Preparation of the claim
  • Motor vehicle accidents
  • Workplace injuries — Statutory (no-fault) claims
  • Workplace injuries — common law claims
  • Medical negligence
  • Occupiers’ liability and public liability
  • Dependency claims
  • Pure psychiatric injury claims
  • Medico-legal assessments and medical information
  • National Injuries Insurance Scheme (NIISQ)
  • National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS)
  • Safety, Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 1988 (Cth) and Comcare

Personal Injury Vic

    Our Personal Injury modules offer step-by-step advice supported by relevant cases, precedents and tools so you can focus on being the expert at your client’s fingertips.

    Topics covered:
  • General procedures and the Civil Procedure Act
  • The common law and the Wrongs Act
  • Transport accidents
  • Workplace injuries — workers compensation
  • Workplace injuries — common law claims
  • Medical negligence
  • Occupiers’ liability and public liability
  • Dependency claims
  • Claims for psychiatric injury
  • Dust disease claims
  • Civil aviation claims
  • Defective goods and services
  • Intentional torts
  • Institutional abuse claims)
  • The National Redress Scheme
  • Total and permanent disability claims
  • Preparation of the claim
  • Medical information
  • National Disability Insurance Scheme
  • Safety, Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 1988 (Cth) and Comcare

Personal Property Securities

    Keep your clients from slipping up with this resource on the practical and procedural requirements of the PPSA and PPSR.

    Topics covered:
  • The Personal Property Securities Register
  • Registration
  • Searching
  • Maintaining registrations

Property

    Oversee property law issues across all Australian jurisdictions , including state and territory legislative variations.

    Topics covered:
  • Title to land
  • Taxation and revenue
  • Contracts — general principles
  • Sales and purchases
  • Mortgages
  • Leases
  • Retail leases
  • Residential tenancies
  • Rural transactions
  • Options
  • Encumbrances

Social Justice

    All current Lexis Advance subscribers have access to this free resource for lawyers, academics, students, advocates and self-litigants working on pro-bono cases and social justice issues.

    Topics covered:
  • Australian Humanitarian Immigration
  • Australian Federal Discrimination Law
  • Modern slavery
  • Legal Assistance for Disadvantaged People

Succession

    Give your clients a panoramic view of wills, financial planning, grants of probate, estate administration and contested proceedings matters.

    Topics covered:
  • Wills
  • Grant of probate (testacy)
  • Grant of letters of administration (intestacy)
  • Other grants of administration
  • Estate administration
  • Family provision orders
  • Contested proceedings
  • Costs and taxes
  • Elder law

Work Health & Safety

    Make sure you’re ready to go with this resource for legal practitioners and WHS/OHS officers dealing with matters under the harmonised Work Health and Safety laws.

    Topics covered:
  • Work Health and Safety regime
  • Health and safety duties
  • Health and safety representation in the workplace
  • Health and safety consultation in the workplace
  • Incident notification
  • Discriminatory conduct
  • Workplace entry
  • Securing compliance
  • Enforcement measures
  • Offences, penalties, and court proceedings
  • Model Codes of Practice

Practice Areas:

Capital Markets and M&A

    The Capital Markets and M&A Module has been developed with leading experts to keep you up-to-date on regulatory and market developments and to ensure you have the resources and tools needed to deliver efficient and effective services to clients.

    Topics covered:
  • Private Placements
  • IPOs
  • Corporate Governance
  • Public Company Reporting
  • M&A Agreements
  • Public M&A
  • Private M&A
  • Private Equity and Venture Capital
  • Registration and Investment Management

Commercial

    Designed for the needs of the commercial lawyer, the Commercial module provides guidance on a wide range of legal topics. Resources and tools such as practice notes, precedents, checklists, toolkits, automated templates and more are available to ensure that you have the most up-to-date information and can complete any task faster and more efficiently.

    Topics covered:
  • Outsourcing
  • Franchising
  • Competition Law
  • Municipal Law and Land Use Development
  • Advertising and Marketing
  • Supply of Goods and Services
  • Contract Drafting and Management

Corporate and Private M&A

    Developed to quickly and easily deliver the most important and sought after information for corporate lawyers, the Corporate and Private M&A module provides tools, practice notes, precedents, checklists and more. Get immediate access to jurisdictional-specific guidance developed to assist you in your daily responsibilities.

    Topics covered:
  • Business Corporations
  • Non-Profit Corporations
  • Corporate Liability
  • Private M&A
  • Private Equity and Venture Capital

Employment

    Designed to give employment lawyers access to the resources and tools needed to efficiently manage their tasks, stay up to date on the information they need to know and get a head start on drafting. The employment module offers instant access to a continually expanding range of topics within the practice of employment law authored and updated by leading experts in the field.

    Topics covered:
  • Employment Contracts
  • Employment Standards
  • Compensation and Benefits
  • Terminating the Employment Relationship
  • Wrongful Dismissal Litigation
  • Human Rights in the Workplace
  • Workplace Policies

Finance

    Developed to quickly and easily deliver the most important and sought after information, the Finance module provides tools, practice notes, precedents and more. Get immediate access to the comprehensive set of resources available to ensure that you have the most up-to-date information and can successfully complete any task.

    Topics covered:
  • Negotiable Instruments
  • Lending
  • Guarantees and Letters of Credit
  • Acquisition Financing
  • Streaming Transactions

In-House Counsel

    Developed to quickly and easily deliver the most important and sought after information for In House Counsel, the In-House Counsel Desk solution combines the tools, practice notes, precedents, and more from a diverse set of modules covering the core practice needs you face in your daily responsibilities.

    Topics Covered:
  • Business Alignment
  • Strategic, Operational and Project Management
  • Corporate Compliance
  • Corporate Governance
  • Corporate Liability
  • Risk Management
  • International Issues

Insolvency & Restructuring

    Canadian insolvency and restructuring proceedings can present multiple challenges for lawyers of all experience levels. Quickly access the comprehensive collection of current and updated practical guidance available to ensure that you have the most up to date information and can successfully complete any task.

    Topics covered:
  • Commercial Bankruptcy
  • Commercial Proposals
  • Personal Bankruptcy
  • CCAA Proceedings
  • Debtor/ Creditor

Intellectual Property & Technology

    Access up-to-date guidance relating to all Intellectual Property and Technology matters. Resources and tools such as practice notes, precedents and more are available to ensure that you get a head start on a wide variety of tasks such as drafting agreements or preparing documents for prosecution and litigation.

    Topics covered:
  • Preparing Breach Reports to the Privacy Commissioner
  • Complying with Canadian Anti-Spam Legislation
  • Drafting a Master Services Agreement

Litigation & Dispute Resolution

    Developed to quickly and easily deliver the most important and sought after information, the Litigation & Dispute Resolution module provides tools, practice notes, precedents and more. You will get practical guidance to assist you with every stage of litigation: from the initial client meeting through to the ultimate resolution. Get immediate access to the comprehensive set of resources available to ensure that you have the most up-to-date information and can successfully complete any task.

    Topics covered:
  • Pre-Litigation
  • Commencement & Pleadings
  • Discovery
  • Motions & Applications
  • Mediation & Settlement
  • Trials
  • Specialty Litigation
  • International Arbitration

Real Estate

    Designed for those who are involved in real estate transactions, whether large or small, the Real Estate module provides guidance on key commercial and residential topics. Resources such as practice notes, precedents, checklists, and forms are available to guide you through a variety of key real estate transactions with ease.

    Topics covered:
  • Acquisitions and Sales
  • Real Estate Financing
  • Commercial Leasing
  • Residential and Condominium Content

Practice Areas:

Commercial

    This module pulls together the practical know-how in commercial considerations presented in a curated collection of precedent templates, checklists and flowcharts. These practical insights are backed by hyperlinks to relevant legislation and case law.

    Topics covered:
  • Advertising, marketing and sponsorship
  • Consumer credit and protection
  • Contract
  • Data protection and privacy
  • Franchising, agency and distribution
  • Financial distress, bankruptcy and insolvency
  • Intellectual property
  • Joint ventures and collaboration agreements
  • Sale and supply of goods
  • Sales and supply of services
  • Tax and insurance

Corporate

    Use Practical Guidance - Corporate to understand the practical application of the law quicker, access precedents with drafting notes and ultimately enhance your project efficiencies. This will allow you to invest more time in high-value client transactions.

    Topics covered:
  • Audit and auditors
  • Company incorporation
  • Company management
  • Corporate governance
  • Directors and company secretaries
  • Equity capital markets
  • Joint ventures
  • Labuan companies
  • Meetings and resolutions
  • Private M&A
  • Reorganisation, restructuring and insolvency
  • Share capital

Dispute Resolution

    The Dispute Resolution module offers practical guidance with legal analysis that allows you to work with confidence and make the most informed decisions.

    Topics covered:
  • ADR
  • Applicable law and jurisdiction
  • Appeals
  • Arbitration under Arbitration Act 2005
  • Enforcement
  • Evidence and discovery
  • Injunctions and other relief orders
  • Judicial review
  • Limitation
  • Litigation
  • Winding up and Bankruptcy

Employment

    The Employment module provides step-by-step guidance and best practice advice, supported by on-point cases, legislation, checklists, forms, precedents, tools and trusted LexisNexis deep research materials.

    Topics covered:
  • Domestic inquiry
  • Employment disputes
  • Key developments – legislation tracker, news and analysis
  • Pay and benefits
  • Protected rights in employment
  • Recruitment
  • Restrictive covenants
  • Starting employment
  • Termination of employment
  • Trade unions and industrial action

Practice Areas:

Business Law

    Practical Guidance Business Law is an essential hub for resources and tools for working with corporate and commercial clients across a broad range of matters. Get fast, easy access to a comprehensive range of guidance notes, checklists, precedents, forms, cases, legislation and commentary. Stay on top of business law legislative changes and developments in case law with our regular content updates.

    Topics covered:
  • Business structures
  • Joint ventures
  • Contract law
  • Buying and selling a business
  • Financial reporting
  • Takeovers
  • Lending and taking security
  • Competition law
  • Ethical conduct
  • Offers of securities: old system
  • Offers of securities: new system
  • Business disputes
  • Insolvency
  • Consumer law
  • Anti-money laundering and countering financing of terrorism
  • In-house know how
  • Regulation of in-house lawyers

Criminal

    Practical Guidance Criminal will guide you through the procedural aspects of criminal law matters from time of arrest through to bail, trial, sentencing, appeals and costs. With practice tips to help you navigate a range of offences, as well as police procedures, trial process and courtroom etiquette, you can concentrate on ensuring the best outcome for your client.

    Topics covered:
  • Criminal liability
  • Offences against the person
  • Property offences
  • Family violence
  • Sexual offences
  • Drug offences
  • Traffic offences
  • Summary offences
  • Disclosure
  • Bail
  • Diversion
  • Legal aid
  • Criminal liability
  • Offences against the person
  • Property offences
  • Family violence
  • Sexual offences
  • Drug offences
  • Traffic offences
  • Summary offences
  • Disclosure
  • Diversion
  • Legal aid

District Court Litigation

    Practical Guidance District Court Litigation is your comprehensive digital handbook of up-to-date District Court procedures. With regularly updated guidance and resources to help you navigate a range of matters from filing a claim through to enforcement and costs, you will have everything you need to achieve a successful outcome for your clients at your fingertips.

    Topics covered:
  • Before commencing proceedings
  • Claim procedure
  • Case management
  • Discovery, inspection and interrogatories
  • Evidence and expert
  • Trial
  • Enforcement
  • Costs
  • Restraining orders

Employment

    Practical Guidance Employment not only assists you in developing a better understanding of workplace law matters, it gives you the framework, resources and practical tools to guide you through every step. In addition to regularly updated detailed guidance notes, handy checklists and trusted precedents written by our employment law experts, the module includes access to relevant cases and legislation.

    Topics covered:
  • Recruitment
  • Starting employment
  • Good faith obligations
  • Pay, benefits and tax
  • Holidays and leave
  • Protected rights
  • Health and safety (before 4 April 2016)
  • Health and safety (after 4 April 2016)
  • Trade unions
  • Performance management and discipline
  • Disputes and grievances
  • Ending employment
  • Dispute resolution
  • Social media

Family

    Practical Guidance Family brings all your essential family law tools and resources together in one place.

    Topics covered:
  • Assisted reproduction
  • Birth and birth certificates
  • Guardianship
  • Day-to-day care and contact
  • Adoption
  • Relocation of child
  • International child abduction
  • Child support
  • Relationship status
  • Family violence
  • End of relationships
  • Incapacity
  • Income support
  • Domicile
  • Relationship property
  • Protected property
  • Dispute resolution
  • Youth justice

Family Dispute Resolution

    The only resource of its kind, Practical Guidance Family Dispute Resolution provides a practical perspective on family dispute resolution to mediators, arbitrators, counsellors and lawyers working with family law clients. The module gives fast, easy access to a comprehensive range of regularly updated guidance notes, checklists, forms, precedents, cases and legislation.

    Topics covered:
  • Legal framework
  • Funding
  • Exemptions and s 12 forms
  • Special challenges and obstacles
  • Preparing for FDR
  • Maintaining child focus
  • Models and goals
  • Parenting agreements
  • Miscellaneous issues

Intellectual Property

    Practical Guidance Intellectual Property is a key resource for legal practitioners working on intellectual property matters.

    Topics covered:
  • NZ — IP Fundamentals New Zealand
  • NZ — Registering and maintaining IP in New Zealand
  • NZ — Intellectual property disputes
  • IP Strategy
  • International protection
  • Commercialising IP
  • IP management
  • AU — IP Fundamentals
  • AU — Registering and maintaining IP
  • AU — Intellectual property disputes
  • AU — IP management
  • AU — Commercialising IP
  • AU — Infringement protection

Property

    Practical Guidance Property gives you quick access to the core information you need when dealing with property law matters. In addition to regularly updated detailed guidance notes, handy checklists and trusted precedents written by property law experts, the module includes access to relevant cases and legislation. The module covers a range of topics, including title to land, taxation, sales and purchases, mortgages, leases, rural transactions and more. With Practical Guidance Property, you can rely on trusted content written by expert lawyers to get straight to the answers you need.

    Topics covered:
  • Subject matter
  • Title to land
  • Taxation and revenue
  • Contract law
  • Sales and purchases
  • Mortgages
  • Mortgage sale
  • Leases
  • Rural transactions
  • Public works
  • Options
  • Encumbrances

Resource Management

    Practical Guidance Property gives you quick access to the core information you need when dealing with property law Practical Guidance Resource Management is an essential resource for guiding clients through resource management law matters. The module gives you access to regularly updated how-to guidance, checklists, forms and precedents, as well as access to relevant legislation and case law.

    Topics covered:
  • Key concepts
  • Key authorities / bodies
  • Interrelationship of planning documents
  • National planning documents
  • Other relevant legislation
  • Regional policy statements / plans
  • Resource consents
  • Designations
  • Subdivision
  • Contamination
  • Māori and resource management
  • Nationally significant proposals
  • Environment Court process
  • Enforcement and offences

Social Justice

    Practical Guidance Social Justice is LexisNexis’ free online module for people who are unable to afford a lawyer, wish to represent themselves in court or understand more about their legal rights in New Zealand.

    Topics covered:
  • General tips for civil legal actions
  • Employment cases
  • Care of children
  • Your rights
  • Your safety
  • Opposing human trafficking

Succession

    Practical Guidance Succession is a how-to resource for legal practitioners covering a range of topics, including testamentary capacity, wills and intestacy, probate, administration of contentious estates, and estates in foreign jurisdictions. Intuitive guidance notes, checklists, forms, precedents, cases and legislation are provided to help you access the required information quickly and easily.

    Topics covered:
  • Wills
  • Testamentary capacity
  • Grant of probate
  • Claims against the estate
  • Estate administration
  • Contested proceedings
  • Intestacy and letters of administration
  • Foreign jurisdictions

Trusts

    Practical Guidance Trusts is an essential resource for anyone administering a trust or involved in transactions with trusts.

    Topics covered:
  • Acquisition and disposal of trust assets
  • Memorandum of wishes
  • Residential case subsidies
  • Trustee resolutions
  • Gifting
  • Transactions with beneficiaries
  • Trustee appointment and retirement
  • Resettlement
  • Beneficiary appointment and removal
  • Winding up a trust
  • Multiple property owners
  • Life leases
  • Powers of the court
  • Variations of trust
  • Corporate trustee
  • Drafting a trust
  • Trust reviews

Practice Areas:

Commercial

    We understand accessing a broad range of information sources is time consuming, inefficient and sometimes puts you at risk of using out of date information. Whatever the challenge, Lexis Advance® Practical Guidance – Commercial module is the place to start for commercial law practitioners.

    Topics covered:
  • Advertising, marketing and sponsorship
  • Consumer credit and protection
  • Contract
  • Data protection and privacy
  • Franchising, agency and distribution
  • Financial distress, bankruptcy and insolvency
  • Intellectual property
  • Joint ventures and collaboration agreements
  • Sale and supply of goods
  • Sales and supply of services
  • Tax and insurance

Corporate

    Corporate laws are constantly evolving and changing. Lexis Advance® Practical Guidance – Corporate Module allows you to keep up with ease.

    Topics covered:
  • Audit and auditors
  • Company incorporation
  • Company management
  • Corporate governance
  • Directors and company secretaries
  • Equity capital markets
  • Joint ventures
  • Labuan companies
  • Meetings and resolutions
  • Private M&A
  • Reorganisation, restructuring and insolvency
  • Share capital

Dispute Resolution

    The Lexis Advance® Practical Guidance – Dispute Resolution module covers key dispute resolution processes, offering step-by-step guidance and resources for the practice of civil litigation, arbitration, mediation and adjudication.

    Topics covered:
  • ADR
  • Applicable law and jurisdiction
  • Appeals
  • Arbitration under Arbitration Act 2005
  • Enforcement
  • Evidence and discovery
  • Injunctions and other relief orders
  • Judicial review
  • Limitation
  • Litigation
  • Winding up and Bankruptcy

Employment

    The Employment Module provides you with instant access to practical information and resources across topics such as recruitment, starting employment, pay benefits and tax, restrictive covenants, ending employment, employment disputes and trade unions.

    Topics covered:
  • Domestic inquiry
  • Employment disputes
  • Key developments – legislation tracker, news and analysis
  • Pay and benefits
  • Protected rights in employment
  • Recruitment
  • Restrictive covenants
  • Starting employment
  • Termination of employment
  • Trade unions and industrial action

Family Law

    The Singapore Family Law module is the first of its kind that pioneers the importance of cases in the application of law. Lexis Advance® Practical Guidance provides users with concise and in-depth case summaries of both landmark cases and supplemental cases in Singapore and the United Kingdom, where relevant.

    Such a feature will ensure users are able to access the law in minimal time but with excellent results. The Singapore Family Law module further provides family lawyers with step by step processes of the law, simplistic yet thorough overviews of the current law as well as sample precedents that can be applied and used by the practitioner by merely filling in the blanks.

    Topics Covered:
  • Domestic inquiry
  • Employment disputes

IP & IT

    The Lexis Advance® Practical Guidance — IP & IT Module offers you a database of news and current materials to keep you up to date anywhere, anytime.

    The IP section provides full coverage of copyright, trademarks, patents and design rights matters, and comes replete with guides on application, licensing, reinstatement and deregistration procedures, as well as templates catering to myriad situations, with a clause bank for further variation.

    IT topics of concern are addressed in the data protection, cybersecurity, social media and e-commerce segments, while a special corporate chapter provides insight into the handling of IP & IT issues in M&As. Whether a practitioner or in-house counsel, IP & IT module has the content that allows you to stay relevant in this fast-changing field with maximum ease.

Private Client

    Lexis Advance® Practical Guidance – Private Client Module offers step-by-step guidance for practitioners serving individuals and families on a wide variety of matters such as wills, probates, trusts and taxes.

    The Private Client module is an unparalleled trove of precedents with drafting notes, alternative clauses, model letters along with helpful checklists and flowcharts. By aggregating the relevant practical content and guidance you need to tackle the matter at hand, we help you make the most of your time. When private clients ask questions, they expect answers – right away.

Tax

    Lexis Advance® Practical Guidance Tax is a 'how-to' resource for tax practitioners, accountants and lawyers dealing with tax matters. The module provides step-by-step guidance and best practice advice, supported by on-point cases, legislation, checklists, forms and precedents.

    Topics covered:
  • Equity Capital Markets
  • Property Tax
  • Private Equity Funds
  • Hedge Funds
  • Companies and Corporate Tax

Practice Areas:

Arbitration

    Practical Guidance Business Law is an essential hub for resources and tools for working with corporate and commercial clients From detailed guidance on starting an arbitration, help with jurisdictional challenges, appealing and enforcing arbitral awards, to key information on major international arbitration rules, here's the place to start.

    Topics covered:
  • Investment treaty arbitration
  • Highlights and other developments
  • Arbitration under the HK Arbitration Ordinance, Chapter 609
  • Institutional and ad-hoc arbitration
  • International arbitration
  • Sector and industry-specific arbitration
  • Arbitration under the Arbitration Act 1996
  • Q&As
  • Arbitration analyses archive

Banking & Finance

    We'll keep you up to date with news. Weekly essentials newsletters, monthly case updates and a case tracker with the status of cases included and key cases notes on main topics.

    Topics covered:
  • Islamic finance
  • Real estate finance
  • Intercreditor
  • Debt capital markets
  • Key developments and horizon scanning
  • Banking & Finance glossary
  • Derivatives
  • Regulation for derivatives lawyers
  • Sustainable Finance and ESG
  • Lending
  • Project finance
  • Regulation for banking lawyers
  • Banking & Finance weekly highlights
  • Asset finance
  • International
  • Security
  • Quasi-security
  • Q&As
  • Clause bank for Banking & Finance lawyers
  • Trade and commodity finance
  • Acquisition finance
  • In-house banking and finance
  • Banking & Finance introductory materials
  • Claims and remedies
  • Restructuring

Commercial

    Whether you have a broad or niche commercial practice, staying on top of ongoing developments is a challenge. Our weekly highlights and topic trackers keep you up to date with all the latest developments.

    Topics covered:
  • Confidential information
  • Contractual joint ventures
  • E-commerce
  • Supplier management
  • Franchising
  • Supply of services
  • Data protection
  • Outsourcing
  • Consumer credit
  • Agency and distribution
  • Consumer protection
  • Standard terms and conditions
  • Q&As
  • Intellectual property
  • Corporate support
  • International
  • Public procurement
  • Key developments and materials
  • Contracts: clause bank
  • Contracts
  • Advertising, marketing and sponsorship
  • Sale and supply of goods

Competition

    In competition, we know that detailing the law isn't enough. You need to be able to see things from a commercial perspective so you can protect the competitiveness of your or your clients' businesses.

    Topics covered:
  • UK antitrust - Chapter I
  • Q&As
  • Getting The Deal Through guides
  • Case trackers
  • Multi-jurisdictional FDI control
  • UK case hubs (summaries)
  • Competition introductory materials
  • Competition law general principles
  • UK merger control
  • EU antitrust procedure
  • EU State aid
  • Industry sectors
  • UK competition regulation
  • EU antitrust - Article 101 TFEU
  • EU competition regulation
  • UK private competition litigation
  • EU competition law and commercial agreements
  • UK antitrust - Chapter II
  • EU competition law and IP rights
  • UK NS&I regime
  • UK Subsidy Control
  • Competition law and corporate transactions
  • EU antitrust - Article 102 TFEU
  • UK market investigations
  • UK antitrust procedure
  • EU merger control
  • Multi-jurisdictional merger control
  • EU case hubs (summaries)
  • Competition compliance

Competition

    Understand the connection between the agreements you’re advising on and what happens on the ground. Know when to push a point or let it go and give your clients advice they can work with from design to build and beyond.

    Topics covered:
  • Q&As
  • Clause bank for construction lawyers
  • Contract & tort—general principles
  • Consultant appointments
  • Issues in construction contracts
  • Real estate transactions
  • Other construction documents
  • Regulations and controls
  • Collateral warranties and third-party rights
  • Understanding construction
  • Joint ventures
  • Procurement in Construction
  • Projects
  • Key construction law developments
  • International construction
  • Construction disputes
  • Construction insolvency
  • Insurance in construction
  • Assignment and novation
  • Standard form construction contracts

Corporate

    One day you might be advising an entrepreneur on a new start up. Another you’re facilitating a fundraising on the financial markets. Whatever the challenge, Lexis+ Corporate is the place to start.

    Topics covered:
  • Corporate introductory materials
  • Private equity
  • Corporate joint ventures
  • Private M and A
  • Demergers
  • Restructuring and insolvency for corporate lawyers
  • Companies and other forms of business vehicle
  • Company re-registration
  • Share capital
  • Financial services regulation for corporate lawyers
  • Partnerships
  • Banking and finance for corporate lawyers
  • Members
  • Equity capital markets (Main Market)
  • International
  • Directors and company secretaries
  • Audit
  • Q&As
  • AGMs
  • Company secretarial
  • Corporate crime for corporate lawyers
  • Private M&A (share purchase)
  • Clause bank for corporate lawyers
  • Company incorporation and constitution
  • Company striking off, dissolution and restoration
  • Key developments and horizon scanning
  • Company disclosures, records, and registers
  • Corporate governance
  • Private M&A (intra-group reorganisation)
  • Public company takeovers (Schemes)
  • Market Tracker
  • Accounts and reports
  • Environmental and health and safety law for corporate lawyers
  • Equity capital markets (AIM)
  • General meetings
  • Public company takeovers (Offers)
  • Share incentives for corporate lawyers
  • Tax for corporate lawyers
  • Private M&A (asset purchase)

Corporate Crime

    Businesses facing prosecution for recent or historic bribery and corruption offences need quick, accurate, and practical advice on investigations and self-reporting. Our content offers unique practical insight.

    Topics covered:
  • Money laundering
  • Legal privilege in criminal cases
  • Local authority prosecutions
  • Crown Court Procedure
  • Proceeds of crime
  • Goods vehicle licensing
  • Corporate liability
  • Criminal liability
  • Bribery, corruption, sanctions, and export controls
  • Health and safety and corporate manslaughter offences
  • Appeal and judicial review
  • Corporate Crime in Scotland
  • Regulatory hearings
  • Bail
  • Cross border criminal investigations
  • Insolvency offences and Companies Act offences
  • Q&As
  • Keeping up to date
  • Financial services and pensions offences
  • Non-business related crime
  • Food safety and hygiene offences
  • Fraud, forgery, tax, and theft offences
  • Environmental offences
  • Consumer protection and cartels
  • Cybercrime and data protection offences
  • Magistrates' court proceedings
  • Sentencing
  • Road traffic offences
  • International
  • Criminal procedure and evidence
  • Investigating criminal conduct

Dispute Resolution

    Trying to get to grips with the law underlying your dispute? Looking at trying to settle? Puzzled by costs and funding reforms? Out of your depth on jurisdiction issues?

    Topics covered:
  • Enforcement
  • EU law
  • Cross border enforcement
  • Civil appeals
  • Applications—general
  • ADR
  • Injunctions
  • Settlement
  • Q&As
  • Corporate and partnerships
  • Claims and remedies
  • Case management
  • Service
  • Litigation
  • International guidance
  • Jurisdiction
  • Property disputes
  • Applicable law
  • Costs and funding
  • Key DR developments
  • Evidence and disclosure
  • Pre-action and limitation
  • Applications—specific
  • Insolvency for dispute resolution practitioners
  • Scottish civil litigation

Employment

    We cover recruitment, employment contracts, policies, handbooks and more. It’s not just contracts though. Other documents may regulate the employment relationship, such as policies, procedures, and collective agreements.

    Topics covered:
  • Starting employment
  • Key developments and materials
  • Q&As
  • Status, worker categories, sectors, regulatory
  • Managing the employment relationship
  • Practice, procedure, and settlement
  • Employee competition and confidentiality
  • Equality
  • Pay, benefits and tax
  • Trade unions and industrial action
  • International guides on executive compensation & employee benefits
  • Other information
  • TUPE, outsourcing, share and asset purchases
  • Immigration and cross-border
  • Governance and regulatory
  • Protected rights in employment
  • Ending employment

Energy

    The legislated policy is to reach Net Zero by 2050. We have dedicated subtopics for legal teams – renewable electricity subsidies and embedded benefits, projects for solar, onshore wind, and offshore renewable projects.

    Topics covered:
  • Networks and network connections
  • Key developments and materials
  • Energy disputes
  • Air emissions, efficiency, and climate change
  • Capacity Market, balancing services, and energy system flexibility
  • Power purchase and energy trading
  • Electricity and gas market regulation and licensing
  • Conventional power, waste to energy, biomass, and CHP projects
  • International energy
  • Energy clause bank
  • Nuclear energy
  • Oil and gas
  • Property and construction issues in the energy sector
  • Renewable energy
  • Q&As
  • Planning issues in energy projects

Environment

    We show where climate change targets come from at national, European and international levels, plus we detail climate reporting and disclosure frameworks, track litigation and provide practical guidance for your business.

    Topics covered:
  • Air emissions and climate change
  • Waste producer responsibility regimes
  • Marine
  • Environmental enforcement and prosecutions
  • Environmental taxes, reliefs, and incentives
  • Water, flooding, and drainage
  • Environmental liabilities, due diligence, and insurance
  • Key developments and materials
  • Sources of environmental law (UK, EU, International)
  • Environmental information
  • ESG and sustainability
  • Energy and renewables
  • Q&As
  • Waste
  • Wildlife, biodiversity, and habitat conservation
  • Environmental assessment
  • Hazardous substances and chemicals
  • Environmental permits and consents
  • Energy efficiency and buildings
  • Energy efficiency of products
  • Energy for environmental lawyers
  • Environmental disputes and proceedings
  • Contamination and pollution
  • Environmental issues in transactions
  • Environmental reporting, management, and responsible business
  • Health and safety

EU Law

    This topic contains information to help lawyers get up to speed with EU law and concepts, so they're confident about the subject, and can appropriately frame their advice.

    Topics covered:
  • Key developments and materials
  • International trade
  • Financial services
  • Environment
  • Commercial
  • Banking and finance
  • Pensions
  • Competition and state aid
  • Restructuring and insolvency
  • Life sciences
  • Free movement, immigration, and employment
  • Data protection and cyber security
  • Justice and home affairs
  • Corporate
  • Dispute resolution
  • Country guides
  • EU fundamentals
  • Insurance and reinsurance
  • TMT
  • IP
  • Regulatory
  • Energy

Family

    Comprehensive coverage of all aspects of financial provision, from underlying principles considered by the court to applications under specific legislation. Not forgetting in-depth practical guidance on specialist areas.

    Topics covered:
  • Private children
  • Court of Protection
  • Tax
  • Key family law developments
  • International
  • Pre-action
  • Financial provision
  • Public children
  • Emergency procedures
  • Relationship breakdown
  • Enforcement
  • Costs
  • Q&As
  • Practice and procedure
  • Cohabitants
  • The business of family law

Financial Services

    Our current awareness offering includes daily, weekly and intraday alerts. We have a suite of comprehensive horizon scanners and timelines on many topics, enabling lawyers to stay on top of regulatory changes.

    Topics covered:
  • Complaints, compensation, and claims management
  • Consumer finance
  • FSMA regulated pensions activity
  • Regulation of insurance
  • Regulation of benchmarks and IBOR reform
  • Risk management and controls
  • Operational resilience
  • International - financial services and related sectors
  • Regulation of derivatives
  • Islamic finance
  • Markets and trading
  • Investigations, enforcement, and discipline
  • Crowdfunding platforms
  • Financial crime and sanctions
  • Fintech and cryptoassets
  • Q&As
  • Consumer credit, mortgage, and home finance
  • Authorisation, approval, and supervision
  • UK, EU and international regulators and bodies
  • Conduct requirements
  • Regulated activities
  • Financial services weekly highlights
  • Regulation of capital markets
  • Prudential requirements
  • Regulation of pre-paid funeral plans
  • Banks and mutuals
  • Payment services and systems
  • Key developments and horizon scanning
  • Financial Services regulation-getting started
  • Packaged Retail and Insurance-based Investment Products (PRIIPs)
  • Investment funds and asset management
  • Securities financing transactions
  • Consumer protection
  • Sustainable finance and ESG
  • Dispute resolution for financial services lawyers

Immigration

    As the rules and policy on UK immigration grow in complexity, it’s tricky to stay up to speed on the latest changes (especially when one source seems to contradict another). We’ll help keep you up-to-date.

    Topics covered:
  • Work sponsorship: sponsors
  • Preventing illegal working
  • Q&As
  • Challenging immigration decisions and enforcement
  • Visitors
  • UK immigration control: how it works
  • International
  • Family members under Part 8 and Appendix FM
  • Key developments
  • Sponsored work
  • Business, investment, and non-sponsored work
  • Students
  • Citizenship applications
  • Long residence, discretion, and human rights
  • EU law rights and EU Settlement Scheme

In-house Advisor

    Gain insight into your company’s finance and accounting. We’ll describe the format financial accounting information is presented and give you the why and how that information’s used to determine business goals.

    Topics covered:
  • Training
  • Personal development
  • Financial management
  • Key skills
  • Strategy
  • How to be a business partner
  • New to role & developing business relationships
  • C: Risk management, Training
  • CSR
  • Insight and best practice
  • Risk management
  • Keeping up to date
  • Operational management
  • Q&As
  • G: Company secretarial
  • Working with external legal suppliers (non-law firms)
  • A: Keeping up to date
  • Company secretarial resources
  • Running a legal department
  • Training for you and your team
  • D: Personal development, Key skills
  • E: Running legal dept, Creating value, External lawyers, Business partner
  • Responsible business
  • Working with external legal service suppliers
  • Managing the team
  • International
  • Creating value for your organisation
  • B: Structure, strategy and responsible business
  • H: International

Information Law

    View a range of trackers to enable horizon scanning and monitoring of key developments. The trackers are maintained - making them useful for keeping up-to-date and for business development.

    Topics covered:
  • Public sector information
  • Cybersecurity
  • Information law clause bank
  • Q&As
  • Data protection
  • Key developments and materials
  • International guidance
  • Reputation management
  • ePrivacy
  • Confidential information
  • State security and intelligence
  • Databases

Insurance & reinsurance

    We provide practical guidance in relation to insurance claims, including on subrogation, allocation, and aggregation, together with detailed guidance on relevant legislation.

    Topics covered:
  • Distribution and administration
  • Key developments
  • Insurance
  • Disputes, complaints, and investigations
  • Corporate
  • Highlights and horizon scanning
  • Insurance types
  • Control and management
  • Intermediaries and market practice
  • Regulation of insurance
  • Q&As
  • Reinsurance

International Trade

    An online practical and comprehensive guidance product for contentious and non-contentious lawyers giving advice to and supporting governments, businesses and organisations that engage.

    Topics covered:
  • WTO
  • Other international trade issues
  • Safeguards
  • Dispute settlement
  • Subsidies and countervailing measures
  • Trade in intellectual property
  • Key developments and materials
  • Anti-dumping
  • GTDT guides
  • Trade in goods
  • Sanctions and export control
  • Customs
  • Free trade agreements
  • Trade in services
  • Plurilateral trade agreements

IP

    Practical information about copyright, moral rights, performers’ rights, and rights in performances. Get precedent copyright assignments and licences here.

    Topics covered:
  • Designs
  • Key developments and materials
  • Trade marks/passing off
  • Internet
  • Know-how/R & D
  • Confidential information
  • IP clause bank
  • Databases
  • Patents
  • Copyright & associated rights
  • General IP
  • Reputation management
  • International
  • Q&As

Life Sciences

    Highly regulated, with strict compliance rules, work can be in-house or in collaboration with another entity. Guidance includes practice notes on UK and EU regime for clinical trials and various precedents.

    Topics covered:
  • Disputes and regulatory enforcement
  • Life sciences glossary
  • Research and development
  • International
  • Management and strategic planning
  • Data protection and confidential information
  • Post-market
  • Key developments and materials
  • Q&As
  • Life sciences clause bank
  • Business transactions
  • Intellectual property
  • Manufacture, marketing, and sale

Local Government

    Public bodies are subject to the provisions of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015. We give full coverage of public contracts, from issues to consider before procurement, to dealing with contract award challenges.

    Topics covered:
  • Public sector contracts
  • Licensing
  • Bribery
  • Pensions
  • Financial enforcement
  • Environment
  • Highways
  • Children's social care
  • Education
  • Outsourcing
  • Social care
  • Environmental law and climate change
  • Local authority prosecutions
  • Q&As
  • Healthcare
  • Judicial review
  • Housing
  • Social housing
  • Local government finance
  • Key developments and materials
  • Public procurement
  • Governance
  • News Analysis
  • Management and soft skills
  • Planning

Pensions

    Navigate the complexities of the revised pensions freedoms regime and the different circumstances of pension benefits, including periods of temporary absence and the indexation and reduction of pensions in payment.

    Topics covered:
  • Early leavers, transfers and contracting-out
  • Clause bank for pension lawyers
  • Funding, surplus and investment
  • Types of private sector pensions
  • Public sector pensions
  • Q&As
  • Ill-health benefits and death benefits
  • Pensions bodies
  • Disclosure requirements, costs/charges, and data protection
  • Scottish pensions
  • Transactions and reorganisations
  • International pensions
  • Pension scams and liberation
  • Taxation
  • Members and benefits
  • Scheme amendments, mergers, and de-risking
  • Disputes, discrimination, and divorce
  • Employers and automatic enrolment
  • Employer debt
  • Trustees, governance, and administration
  • Personal pensions
  • Key developments and materials
  • Insolvency and winding up

PI & Clinical Negligence

    Key practice notes looking at the courts’ approach when deciding if a duty of care is owed by the defendant, including claims for novel situations, psychiatric injury, omissions and claims involving public authorities.

    Topics covered:
  • Q&As
  • Appeals
  • ADR
  • Special claims
  • Litigation
  • Costs and funding
  • Key PI and clinical negligence developments
  • Limitation
  • Applications - general
  • Enforcement
  • Service
  • Pre-action
  • Regulation of healthcare professionals
  • Case management
  • Damages
  • Settlement
  • Clinical negligence
  • Types of claim
  • Applications - specific
  • Establishing legal liability
  • Evidence and disclosure

Planning

    We cover all key aspects of the planning application process from the procedure, viability considerations, to decision-making and material considerations, to the duty to give reasons for planning decisions.

    Topics covered:
  • Buildings and building regulations
  • Obtaining, amending, and implementing planning permission
  • Freedom of information and environmental information
  • Planning conditions, obligations, and the community infrastructure levy
  • Town and village greens and commons
  • Planning for nationally significant infrastructure
  • Planning issues in property and insolvency
  • Planning appeals and objections
  • Compulsory purchase
  • Enforcement
  • Localism
  • Planning policy
  • Highways, Streets and Public Rights of Way
  • Training materials
  • Planning judicial and statutory review
  • Planning issues in energy projects
  • Environmental impact assessment, strategic environmental assessment, and appropriate assessment
  • Heritage and natural environment
  • Q&As
  • When planning permission is required
  • Key developments and highlights
  • Utilities

Practice Compliance

    Practical guidance tools, registers, training aids and other templates to help you comply with data protection law and manage privacy risks.

    Topics covered:
  • Third parties
  • Client care & complaints
  • Information management & security
  • Client & matter management
  • Financial services
  • Authorisation & regulation
  • Business management
  • COLP toolkit
  • Risk
  • Training
  • Keeping up to date
  • Anti-bribery & corruption
  • GC resources
  • Costs & funding
  • AML, CTF & counter-proliferation financing
  • Q&As
  • Accounts & Finance
  • International guides and tools
  • Conflicts, confidentiality & disclosure
  • Crime prevention
  • Data protection compliance

Practice Management

    Any law firm that has or wants to get Lexcel accreditation (the Law Society’s practice management standard) will find this subtopic invaluable. Get practical pre-assessment, assessment day, and post-assessment guidance.

    Topics covered:
  • Trainee solicitors
  • Financial strategy & management
  • Human resources
  • Operational management
  • Learning & development
  • Strategy
  • Health & safety
  • Commercial agreements
  • Doing business abroad
  • Lexcel & other standards
  • Business development & marketing
  • GC resources
  • Q&As

Private Client

    Precedents covering the most common scenarios in this area. Drafting notes accompany each clause - incorporating the latest developments like Will drafting considerations for inheritance tax residence nil rate band.

    Topics covered:
  • Wills
  • Elderly and vulnerable clients
  • International
  • Art and heritage property, landed estates and farming families
  • Budgets and Finance Bills
  • Spouses, civil partners, and cohabitants
  • Digital assets and cryptoassets
  • Q&As
  • Probate
  • UK taxes for Private Client
  • Court of Protection
  • Contentious trusts and estates
  • Tax avoidance, evasion, and non-compliance
  • Digital assets and crypto assets
  • Pensions, insurance, and tax efficient investments
  • Family businesses and ownership structures
  • Insolvency - private client
  • Charity and philanthropy
  • Key developments
  • Powers of attorney and advance decisions
  • Jurisdictional guides
  • Private Client in Scotland
  • UK tax planning
  • Trusts
  • Private Client introductory materials

Property

    We have a broad range of Practice Notes and Precedents for this specialised and complex area. Structured logically – site acquisition, vacant possession, structuring a development project, overage, and rights of light.

    Topics covered:
  • Leasing property
  • Key developments and horizon scanning
  • Property taxes
  • International transactions
  • Commercial real estate finance
  • Property management
  • Residential property
  • Property disputes
  • Property development
  • Insurance
  • Mixed use schemes
  • Environment, energy, and buildings
  • Transferring property
  • Corporate and structured property transactions
  • Agricultural property
  • Property insolvency
  • Statutory compliance
  • Easements, rights, and covenants
  • Clause bank for property lawyers
  • Q&As
  • Property in Scotland
  • Property in Wales
  • Investigating title

Property Disputes

    Understand practice and procedures, the implications of legislation and case law. Our notes have direct links to relevant cases, legislation, guidance, and commentary. Get daily news feeds and weekly highlights.

    Topics covered:
  • Disputes and remedies
  • Enfranchisement and right to manage
  • Service charges
  • Enforcing security and property insolvency
  • Leases and licences
  • Residential tenancies
  • Rent and rates
  • Repairing obligations and dilapidations
  • Business tenancies
  • Neighbour and party wall disputes
  • Agricultural tenancies
  • Contractual issues
  • Key developments and horizon scanning
  • Property disputes in Scotland
  • Trespass and adverse possession
  • Forfeiture
  • Electronic Communications
  • Q&As
  • Break options and notices
  • Lease covenants and obligations
  • Easements and covenants
  • Surrender

Public Law

    An essential resource providing guidance & materials on core legal subjects relevant to lawyers in all areas of legal practice, as well as specialist content designed to assist government lawyers in a range of key areas.

    Topics covered:
  • Key developments and materials
  • State security and intelligence
  • Public sector contracts
  • Projects and infrastructure
  • Management and strategic planning
  • State accountability and liability
  • Public procurement
  • News analysis
  • International
  • Equality and human rights
  • Q&As
  • Constitutional and administrative law
  • Subsidy control and State aid
  • Information law
  • EU law
  • Judicial review

Restructuring & Insolvency

    Helping to restructure and insolvency professionals stay up-to-date with legal and market developments, and work faster and smarter.

    Topics covered:
  • Directors’ disqualification
  • Guides to dealing with a distressed business
  • Creditors' participation
  • Q&As
  • Restructuring
  • R&I spotlight
  • Corporate insolvency processes
  • Insolvency litigation
  • Financial institutions
  • R&I in Scotland
  • Personal insolvency
  • Employees and insolvency
  • Sovereign debt
  • Clause bank for restructuring and insolvency lawyers
  • Insurance and insolvency
  • Case bulletins
  • Directors and insolvency
  • Restructuring and insolvency glossary
  • Property insolvency
  • Tax and insolvency
  • Partnership insolvency
  • Pensions and insolvency
  • The officeholder
  • Industry/sector guides for R&I lawyers
  • Key R&I law developments
  • Document review
  • International restructuring and insolvency
  • Insolvency trading issues

Risk & Compliance

    Having a clear understanding of the nature of competition law compliance and the associated risks/challenges for businesses is the first step to setting effective compliance arrangements. We help organisations with this.

    Topics covered:
  • How-to guides
  • Q&As
  • Data protection compliance
  • Anti-bribery & corruption
  • Compliance and ethics
  • Crime prevention
  • Health & safety
  • International guides and tools
  • Risk management
  • When things go wrong
  • Business activities
  • AML, CTF & counter-proliferation financing
  • Information assets & security
  • Professional conduct and regulation
  • Keeping up to date

Share Incentives

    Reports on executive pay are regularly in the news. We include subtopics on corporate governance, remuneration issues for financial services firms and a comparison of UK Corporate Governance remuneration principles.

    Topics covered:
  • Joint share ownership plans
  • Employee benefit trusts
  • Current issues
  • Company law, governance, and regulatory matters
  • Cash schemes and employment issues
  • Scheme design and financial considerations (including valuation and accounting)
  • Budgets, Autumn Statements and Finance Bills
  • Share subscriptions and non-tax advantaged arrangements
  • Company shares option plans
  • Corporate transactions
  • International share schemes and incentives
  • Share incentive plans
  • Save as you earn
  • Q&As
  • Share schemes - introduction and overview
  • Enterprise management incentives
  • Long-term incentive plans and deferred share bonus plans

Tax

    This is an area where many people find themselves a bit at sea. Our content is practical, detailed and covers the major issues in dealing with a tax enquiry or dispute.

    Topics covered:
  • Reorganisations, restructuring and insolvency
  • Business structures
  • Stamp and transfer taxes
  • Real estate tax
  • Finance
  • Budgets and Finance Bills
  • VAT
  • Anti-avoidance
  • Current issues
  • Q&As
  • Clause bank for tax lawyers
  • Private equity and venture capital
  • International
  • Incentivised investment
  • Equity capital markets
  • Share and asset sales
  • Employment taxes
  • Funds
  • Companies and corporation tax
  • Individuals and income tax
  • Energy and environment
  • Taxes management and litigation
  • Indirect taxes—gambling and insurance premium tax (IPT)

TMT

    Our content covers simple outsourcing transactions as well as those with a more complex structure, and the impact of hyperscalers and recognised market practice relating to the negotiation and drafting of affected terms.

    Topics covered:
  • Internet
  • Information technology
  • Telecommunications
  • Advertising, marketing, and sponsorship
  • Q&As
  • Outsourcing
  • Data protection
  • Key developments and materials
  • Reputation management
  • Databases
  • TMT clause bank
  • International
  • Media
  • New technologies
  • Fintech

Practice Areas:

Antitrust

    Topics covered:
  • Trends & Insights: First Analysis, Market Trends
  • Antitrust Fundamentals
  • Horizontal Agreements with Competitors
  • Vertical Agreements with Customers or Suppliers
  • Unilateral Conduct
  • Price Discrimination
  • Mergers and Acquisitions: Pre-signing and Integration Planning, Merger Analysis, Premerger Notification, Antitrust Investigations (US), International Merger Control
  • Civil Antitrust Litigation: Pleadings, Pre-trial, Special Antitrust Proceedings
  • Criminal Antitrust Investigations & Prosecution
  • Antitrust Compliance
  • Antitrust by Industry: Healthcare

Bankruptcy

    Topics covered:
  • Trends & Insights: First Analysis, Market Trends
  • Commencing a Bankruptcy Proceeding: Bankruptcy Fundamentals, Chapter 11 Petitions and First Day Motions, Professional Retention and Compensation, Involuntary Bankruptcies, Conversion and Dismissal
  • Case Administration and the Estate: Automatic Stay, Executory Contracts and Unexpired Leases, Property of the Estate, Setoff and Recoupment, Proofs of Claim, Financial Information for Bankruptcy Lawyers
  • Committees
  • Financing the Debtor's Estate: DIP Financing, Cash Collateral, Mezzanine Financing, Bankruptcy Issues from a Lender's Perspective
  • Asset Purchase Agreement: Fundamentals of Section 363 Sales, Sale Process
  • Disclosure Statements and Plans: Disclosure Statements, Plans of Reorganization, Exiting Chapter 11
  • Bankruptcy Litigation: Adversary Proceedings, Avoidance Actions, Bankruptcy Fraud, Appeals
  • Prepackaged Plans, Workouts and Other Out-of-Court Restructurings: Prepackaged Bankruptcy, Workouts, Other Out-of-Court Restructurings, Consumer Bankruptcies
  • Bankruptcy by Industry: Oil and Gas, Intellectual Property, Real Estate, Employment Law, Contracts Law
  • Lender Liability and Lender Remedies: Lender Liability, State Law Lender Remedies
  • Corporate Governance: Corporate Governance in Chapter 11
  • International Insolvencies: Chapter 15 Proceedings, Restructuring and Insolvency in International Jurisdictions

Business Entities

    Topics covered:
  • Trends & Insights: First Analysis, Market Trends
  • Corporations: Formation and Qualification, Entity Maintenance and Amendments, Corporation Stock and Stockholders, Management and Indemnification, Dissolution
  • Limited Liability Companies: Formation and Qualification, Entity Maintenance and Amendments, Operating Agreement and Ownership Interests, Management and Indemnification, Dissolution
  • Limited Partnerships
  • General Partnerships
  • Limited Liability Partnerships
  • Not-for-Profit Corporations
  • Benefit/Social Purpose Entities
  • Professional Service Corporations
  • Professional Service Limited Liability Companies
  • International Considerations

Capital Markets & Corporate Governance

    Topics covered:
  • Trends & Insights: First Analysis, Market Trends, Market Trends Archive
  • Exempt Offerings: Private Placements, Other Exempt Offerings
  • Debt Securities Offerings: Rule 144A/Regulation S Debt Offerings, Tender Offers and Exchange Offers for Debt Securities, Exempt Securities, Medium-Term Note Programs
  • IPOs: Conducting an IPO, Drafting the Registration Statement, Communications During the Offering Process/li>
  • Post-IPO Equity Offerings: Follow-on Offerings, PIPE Transactions, Other Equity Offerings
  • Foreign Private Issuers: Regulation of Foreign Private Issuers
  • Secondary Offerings and Resales: Resales, Secondary Offerings, State Securities Registration - Blue Sky Laws
  • Registration under the Exchange Act: Section 12 Registration
  • Public Company Reporting: Periodic Reports, Current Reports on Form 8-K, Other Reporting Obligations, Disclosure Issues for Public Companies
  • Proxy Statement and Annual Meeting: Preparing the Proxy Statement and Annual Report, Shareholder Activism, Mailing and Delivery of the Proxy Statement, Preparing for the Annual Meeting
  • Corporate Governance and Compliance Requirements for Public Companies: Corporate Governance, Compliance Controls, Equity-Related Issues
  • Beneficial Ownership: Reporting, Compliance and Tax Matters: Beneficial Ownership Under Section 13, Section 16, Tax Consequences
  • Executive Compensation: Disclosure Requirements, Compensation Plans and Awards, Corporate Governance Issues
  • Structured Finance and Securitisation: Securitisation
  • Financial Derivatives: Understanding Financial Derivatives
  • Investment Management: Investment Advisers, Private Investment Companies, Registered Investment Companies, Broker-Dealer
  • Tender Offers: General Considerations in a Tender Offer, The Two-Step Acquisition Process
  • Capital Markets by Industry
  • International Considerations
  • Securities Litigation and Enforcement
  • Summer Associate Resource Kit: Summer Survival Guide, Summer Practice Guide

Civil Litigation

    Topics covered:
  • Trends & Insights: First Analysis
  • Pre-litigation
  • General Litigation
  • Initial Pleadings and Documents: Assessing Jurisdiction and Venue, Commencing a Civil Action, Responding to a Civil Action, Removing a Case to Federal Court
  • Case Management
  • Pretrial Injunctive and Other Provisional Relief
  • Discovery: Discovery Strategy and Management, Privileges and Protections, Initial Disclosures, Written Discovery, E-discovery, Depositions, Third-Party Discovery, Expert Discovery & Disclosure, Other Discovery Devices, Discovery Motions
  • Motions: Motion Practice Fundamentals, Discovery Motions, Dispositive Motions, Other Motions
  • Settlement
  • Arbitration and Other ADR: Arbitration Fundamentals, Agreements to Arbitrate, Rules and Procedures, Commencing an Arbitration, Compelling or Staying Arbitration, Post-Award Procedures, Mediation and Other ADR
  • Class Actions and Multidistrict Litigation
  • Trial & Post-trial
  • Appeals
  • Subject Matter Litigation Resources

Commercial Transactions

    Topics covered:
  • Trends & Insights: First Analysis
  • Advertising & Marketing: Advertising, Promotions, and Labeling, Regulation of Advertising, Advertising and Marketing Service Relationships, Online Advertising and Marketing, Running Skill Contests and Sweepstakes
  • Commercial Compliance: Understanding Commercial Regulations, Creating Compliance Programs & Policies, Investigations, Responses, and Enforcement
  • Commercial Litigation: Pre-Litigation, Litigation Claims and Discovery, Dispute Resolution and Venue, Damages
  • Commercial Torts: Understanding Business Torts, Business Tort Claims
  • Confidentiality: Confidentiality Generally, Confidentiality in Labor & Employment, Confidentiality in Lending, Confidentiality in Mergers & Acquisitions
  • Consumer
  • E-Commerce: Internet Business & New Media, Domain Names, Social Media, Privacy & Data Security on the Internet
  • Federal Government Contracting: Data Privacy & Information Law, Labor & Employment, Procurement Law, General Federal Government Issues
  • Franchising: Federal Franchising, State Franchising
  • General Commercial and Contract Boilerplate: Contract Boilerplate and Clauses
  • Joint Ventures: Structuring and Planning Joint Ventures, Preliminary Agreements in Joint Ventures, Due Diligence in Joint Ventures, Joint Venture Agreement, Conveying Assets to the Joint Venture, Operating the Joint Venture, International Joint Ventures - Canada
  • Outsourcing: Planning and Procurement in Outsourcing, Negotiating and Drafting the Outsourcing Agreement, Special Issues in Outsourcing, Risk, Disputes, and Termination in Outsourcing
  • Supply of Goods and Services: Contract Formation, Breach, and Remedies under the UCC, Supply and Purchasing Products, Distribution Agency and Reseller Agreements, Services Agreements, Warehousing, Transporting, and Delivering, Equipment Leasing
  • International Considerations
  • Business & Commercial Resource Kits

Corporate and M&A

    Topics covered:
  • Trends & Insights: First Analysis, Market Trends, Market Trends Archive
  • Structuring and Planning a Deal: Fundamentals of Structuring and Planning, Director, Shareholder and Third-Party Approvals, Tax, Accounting and Financing Considerations, Regulatory Considerations, M&A Financial Advisors
  • Preliminary Agreements: Confidentiality/Non-Disclosure Agreements, Exclusivity (No-Shop) Agreements, Letters of Intent
  • Due Diligence
  • Acquisition Agreements: Asset Purchase Agreement, Stock Purchase Agreement, Private Merger Agreement, Public Merger Agreement
  • M&A Provisions
  • Specialty Issues in Mergers & Acquisitions: Antitrust in M&A, Environmental in M&A, Intellectual Property, Labor and Employment, Real Estate, Tax
  • Ancillary Agreements: Escrow Agreements, Transition Services Agreements, Assignment and Assumption Agreements, IP Licenses and Assignment Agreements, Employment and Consulting Agreements, Non-Competition and Confidentiality, Agreements, Voting Agreements, Stockholders' Agreements, Registration Rights Agreements
  • Signing and Closing: Forming the Acquisition Entity, Executing Deal Documents, Closing Certificates, Regulatory Approvals/Filings, Director Approvals and Shareholder Approvals
  • Joint Ventures: Structuring and Planning Joint Ventures, Preliminary Agreements in Joint Ventures, Due Diligence in Joint Ventures, Joint Venture Agreement, Conveying Assets to the Joint Venture
  • Private Equity Investments
  • Minority Securityholder Rights
  • Tender Offers: General Considerations in a Tender Offer, Getting to the Second-Step Merger, The Two-Step Acquisition Process
  • Hostile Takeovers & Shareholder Activism: Hostile Takeovers, Shareholder Activism
  • Divestitures of Divisions and Subsidiaries: Structuring and Planning a Divestiture, Divestiture Agreements, Signing and Closing a Divestiture
  • Going Private Transactions
  • Section 363 Asset Sales
  • PIPE Offerings: PIPE Transactions
  • M&A Auctions
  • Real Estate Investment Trusts: REIT Qualification, REIT Transactions
  • Acquisition Finance: Sources of Acquisition Financing, Structural Issues in Acquisition Financing, Acquisition Financing Commitment Papers
  • M&A by Industry
  • International Considerations: Mergers & Acquisitions, Merger Control, Joint Ventures, Acquisition Finance

Data Security & Privacy

    Topics covered:
  • Trends & Insights: First Analysis
  • Cybersecurity Risk Management
  • Data Breaches: Compliance & Enforcement, Planning, Response
  • Employment Privacy: Monitoring and Testing Employees, Policies and Procedures, Protecting Employee Data
  • Regulatory Enforcement
  • Industry Compliance: Finance, Healthcare, Consumer Protection, Public Sector, Insurance
  • International Compliance: Cybersecurity, Data Protection & Privacy, General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
  • Privacy Policies
  • State Law Surveys and Guidance: State Comprehensive Consumer Privacy Laws, Privacy & Data Security State Law Surveys, State Guidance

Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation

    Topics covered:
  • Trends & Insights: First Analysis, Market Trends
  • Retirement Plans: Design and Implementation, ERISA and Fiduciary Compliance, Plan Administration, Reporting and Disclosure
  • Health and Welfare Plans: Health Plans and Affordable Care Act, COBRA, HIPAA, Fringe Benefit and Other Welfare Plans, ERISA and Fiduciary Compliance, Plan Administration, Reporting and Disclosure
  • Employment, Independent Contractor, and Severance Arrangements: Executive Employment Agreements, Executive Benefits and Perquisites, Restrictive Covenants and Nondisclosure Agreements, Executive Separation Agreements & Severance Plans, Independent Contractors
  • Incentive and Equity-Based Compensation: Incentive Compensation and Change-in-Control Agreements, Equity-Based Compensation
  • Nonqualified Deferred Compensation
  • Corporate Transactions
  • Public Company Compensation Governance and Disclosure: Executive Compensation Governance and Disclosure, Equity-Based Compensation Disclosure
  • State Law Considerations
  • International Considerations

Energy & Utilities

    Topics covered:
  • Trends & Insights: First Analysis, Market Trends
  • Upstream Oil & Gas: Leasing, Exploration & Production (E&P)
  • Midstream Oil & Gas: Midstream Oil and Gas Construction & Project Development, Gathering, Processing, Transportation & Storage
  • Downstream Energy: Public Utilities, Power Purchase Agreements
  • Energy & Environmental Regulation: Energy Regulations, Environmental Regulations
  • Corporate Transactions
  • Energy Financing: Energy Financing Fundamentals, Energy Derivatives, Project Finance, Renewable Energy Financing
  • Bankruptcy Considerations
  • Green Tech & Renewable Energy: Green Tech Economy, Wind Energy, Solar Energy
  • Coal
  • International Considerations

Finance

    Topics covered:
  • Trends & Insights: First Analysis, Market Trends, Market Trends Archive
  • Fundamentals of Financing Transactions: Credit Facility Basics, Due Diligence, Regulations Affecting Credit
  • Commitment Papers and Syndicated Lending: The Commitment Letter, The Fee Letter, The Term Sheet, Other Early-Stage, Financing Documentation, Loan Syndication
  • The Credit Agreement: Credit Agreement Guide, The Loan, Loan Repayments and Prepayments, Representations, Warranties and Covenants, Events of Default and Miscellaneous Provisions
  • Security and Guaranties: Security Interests, Perfection & Priority, Guaranties
  • Closing and Post-Closing Mechanics: Closing Matters, Legal Opinions - Financing Transactions
  • Intercreditor Agreements: Intercreditor Agreement Guide, First Lien/Second Lien and Split Collateral, Application of Proceeds, Remedies Standstill and other Lender Protective Provisions, Release of Liens and Amendments to Credit Documents, Bankruptcy Provisions
  • Acquisition Finance: Sources of Acquisition Financing, Structural Issues in Acquisition Financing, Acquisition Financing Commitment Papers
  • Asset-Based Lending: Introduction to Asset-Based Lending, The Borrowing Base, Excess Availability and Pricing, Borrowing Base Reporting and Monitoring, Covenants in Asset-Based Lending
  • Project Finance: Project Finance Basics, Financing a Project, Renewable Energy
  • Mezzanine Financing: Structure of Mezzanine Debt, Mezzanine Products, Bankruptcy Risks
  • Bankruptcy & Restructuring: Financing the Debtor's Estate, Prepackaged Plans, Workouts and Other Out-of-Court Restructurings
  • Lender Liability and Lender Remedies: Lender Liability, State Law Lender Remedies
  • Structured Finance and Securitisation: Securitisation
  • Financial Derivatives: Understanding Financial Derivatives
  • Construction Financing
  • Real Estate Acquisition Financing: Term Sheet and Loan Commitment, Due Diligence, Acquisition Loan Agreement, Promissory Note, Mortgage/Deed of Trust, Assignment of Leases and Rents, Assignment of Agreements, Guaranty and Indemnification Agreements, Closing Documents and Other Ancillary Documents, Subordination, Non-Disturbance and Attornment Agreement
  • Virtual Currency and Blockchain
  • International Considerations: Cross-Border Banking & Finance Guides, Acquisition Finance, Project Finance, Islamic Finance & Markets, Enforcement of Foreign Judgments, Debt Capital Markets, Banking Regulation, Aviation Finance & Leasing

Financial Services Regulation

    Topics covered:
  • Trends & Insights: First Analysis, Market Trends
  • Bank Activities and Regulatory Enforcement Actions: Holding Company Regulation and Intercompany Transactions, Corporate Governance and Insider Lending, Payments Regulation, Financial Privacy and Data Security, Regulatory Examinations and Interfacing with Federal Agencies
  • The Dodd-Frank Act: Volcker Rule, Consumer Financial Protection Act and Incentive Compensation, Enhanced Prudential Standards, Resolution Planning, and Regulatory Structure
  • Financial Services Transactions: Bank M&A, Asset Sales, and Bank Failure
  • Consumer Financial Services Regulation: Lending, ECOA, TILA, FHA, and Financial Inclusion, Mortgages, RESPA, and TRID Requirements
  • Regulation of Financial Technology (Fintech) and Blockchain Technology: Online and Marketplace Lending, Blockchain and Virtual Currency
  • OFAC, FinCEN, and Anti-Money Laundering: Bank Secrecy Act
  • Freedom of Information Act (FOIA): FOIA Regulations, Exemptions, and Application
  • International Considerations: Basel Capital Accords, Banking Regulation, Anti-Money Laundering, Fintech in International Jurisdictions

Insurance

    Topics covered:
  • Trends & Insights
  • Conducting Insurance Company Operations
  • Developing Insurance Products and Underwriting
  • Interacting with Regulators and Responding to Investigations
  • Assessing Claims and Coverage: Types of Insurance, Coverage Analysis and Advice, Material Misrepresentation, Bad Faith, and Punitive Damages
  • Managing Insurance Representatives
  • Advising on Business Transactions: Mergers and Acquisitions, Banking and Finance, Real Estate
  • International Considerations

Intellectual Property & Technology

    Topics covered:
  • Trends & Insights: First Analysis
  • Advertising & Marketing
  • Copyright: Copyright Counseling & Transactions, Copyright Litigation, Copyright Registration, International Copyright Considerations
  • Internet & E-Commerce: Digital Currency, Domain Names, E-Commerce, Social Media, Websites
  • IP & IT in Corporate Transactions: Joint Ventures & IP Assets, Mergers & Acquisitions, Security Interests
  • Media & Entertainment: Motion Pictures, Music, Personal Managers, Talent Agents, & Attorneys, Publishing
  • Patents: International Patent Considerations, Patent Counseling & Transactions, Patent Litigation, Patent Prosecution, PTAB Proceedings
  • Right of Publicity
  • Technology Transactions: Cloud Computing, Mobile Apps & Devices, Software Development & Support, Software Licenses & Open Source, Technology Outsourcing & Procurement
  • Trademarks: International Trademark Considerations, Trademark Counseling & Transactions, Trademark Litigation, Trademark Registration, TTAB Proceedings
  • Trade Secrets

Labor & Employment

    Topics covered:
  • State Law Surveys and Content Guides: State Law Surveys, State Law Content Guides
  • Trends & Insights: First Analysis, Market Trends
  • Screening and Hiring: Recruiting and Screening, Hiring and Onboarding
  • Discrimination, Harassment, and Retaliation: EEO Laws and Protections, Policies and Procedures, Claims and Investigations, Whistleblowing
  • Employment Contracts: Employment Agreements, Waivers and Releases, Union-Related Agreements
  • Corporate Transactions
  • Non-competes and Trade Secret Protection: Restrictive Covenants, Protecting Trade Secrets
  • Business Immigration: Employment Eligibility Verification, Visas, International Employment
  • Employment Policies: Employee Handbooks, Equal Employment Opportunity, Pay and Benefits, Attendance, Leaves, and Breaks, Standards of Conduct, Career Development, Safety and Health, Privacy, Electronic Information, and Company Property, Separation of Employment
  • Attendance, Leaves, and Disabilities: Attendance and Time Off, Family and Medical Leave, The ADA and Disability,, Management, Military Leave, Other Types of Leave
  • Wage and Hour: Statutory Requirements and Exemptions, Independent Contractors, Compensation, Policies and Procedures, Claims and Investigations
  • Privacy, Technology, and Social Media: Protecting Employee Data, Monitoring and Testing Employees, Navigating Social Media, Policies and Procedures
  • Workplace Safety and Health: Occupational Safety and Health Act, Policies and Procedures
  • Labor-Management Relations: Union Organizing and Representation, Collective Bargaining, Disputes Under CBAs
  • Investigations, Discipline, and Terminations: Performance Management, Investigations, Discipline, Discharge and Layoffs/RIFs
  • Employment Litigation: Class and Collective Actions, Discrimination, Harassment, and Retaliation, Wage and Hour, Restrictive Covenants and Trade Secrets, Other Employment Litigation, Arbitration and Other ADR
  • Pro-Employee Materials: Contracts and Releases, Employment Litigation
  • In-house Advisor: Business Skills, Ethics
  • International Considerations

Life Sciences

    Topics covered:
  • Trends & Insights
  • FDA Approval Process
  • Research and Development
  • Clinical Trials
  • Patents and Licensing
  • Manufacturing and Recalls
  • Labeling, Marketing, and Sales
  • Payment and Reimbursement
  • Regulatory Enforcement
  • Corporate Transactions
  • International Considerations

Private Equity & Investment Management

    Topics covered:
  • Trends & Insights: First Analysis, Market Trends
  • Introduction to Investment Management
  • Private Fund Formation: Hedge Fund Formation, Private Equity Fund Formation, General Documentation
  • Regulation of Investment Advisers
  • Registered Investment Adviser Handbook
  • Fund and Manager Compliance
  • Tax and ERISA Matters: Tax Matters, ERISA Considerations
  • Fund Marketing
  • Investment Activity, Financing & Exits: Private Fund Investments, Fund Financing, Exit Strategies
  • Fund Reviews and Investor Negotiations
  • Crowdfunding and Startups: Crowdfunding, Startup Materials
  • Venture Capital

Real Estate

    Topics covered:
  • Trends & Insights: First Analysis
  • Commercial Purchase and Sales: Letter of Intent, Due Diligence, Commercial Purchase and Sale Agreement, Deeds, Assignment and Assumption Agreements, Closing and Other Ancillary Documents, Miscellaneous Ownership Issues, Insurance and Tax Considerations
  • Hotel Acquisition and Disposition
  • Title and Survey: Title, Survey
  • Joint Ventures: Term Sheet, Joint Venture Agreement, Closing and Other Ancillary Documents
  • Commercial Leasing: Letter of Intent, Lease Agreement, Guaranty of Lease Agreement, Assignment and Subleasing, Surrender of Lease, Closing and Other Ancillary Documents, Bankruptcy, Insurance and Tax Considerations, Landlord-Tenant Litigation
  • Ground Leasing
  • Acquisition Financing: Term Sheet and Loan Commitment, Due Diligence, Acquisition Loan Agreement, Promissory Note, Mortgage/Deed of Trust, Assignment of Leases and Rents, Guaranty and Indemnification Agreements, Closing Documents and Other Ancillary Documents, Workouts
  • Construction Financing: Term Sheet and Loan Commitment, Due Diligence, Construction Loan Agreement, Promissory Note, Mortgage/Deed of Trust, Assignment of Leases and Rents, Guaranty and Indemnification Agreements, Closing Documents and Other Ancillary Documents, Workouts
  • Mezzanine Financing
  • Foreclosures: Pre-litigation Matters, Litigation Matters, Foreclosure Sale, Foreclosure Alternatives
  • Brokerage Agreements
  • Property Management Agreements
  • Construction: Owner and Contractor Agreement, Owner and Architect Agreement, AIA Forms
  • Residential Transactions: Purchase and Sales, Financing, Leasing, Miscellaneous Property Issues
  • Sale Leasebacks
  • Real Estate Investment Trusts
  • Corporate Transactions: Due Diligence, Transaction Documents, Closing and Ancillary Documents
  • International Considerations

Tax

    Topics covered:
  • Trends & Insights: First Analysis
  • Business Entities: C Corporations, S Corporations, Partnerships and LLC's
  • Employment: Employee Benefits, Payroll, Reporting Requirements, Independent Contractors
  • Exempt Organizations
  • Individual Income Tax
  • International Tax
  • Practice, Procedure and Controversy
  • Corporate Transactions
  • Real Estate Transactions
  • Securities Transactions
  • State and Local Tax: Business Taxes, Estate and Inheritance Taxes, Sales, Use, Property, and Local Taxes, Individual Income Tax

Trusts & Estates

    Topics covered:
  • Trends & Insights: First Analysis
  • Estate Planning Fundamentals
  • Wills: Types and Requirements, Revocation, Revival, Amendments and Contests
  • Trusts: Types and Requirements, Trust Administration, Revocation, Amendment and Termination
  • Disability Planning: Living Wills and Healthcare Surrogates, Guardianships and Special Needs Trusts
  • Powers of Attorney
  • Probate and Estate Administration: Governing Law, Jurisdiction and Proceedings, Fiduciary Appointments and Duties
  • Tax Considerations: Estate, Gift, and GST Taxes, Income Taxation, Property Transfers, Deductions, Exclusions and Credits, Basis and Valuation, Tax Treatment of Trusts, Estate Planning to Manage Tax Exposure, Filing of Returns and Payments, State Estate Tax Considerations
  • Marital Agreements
  • International Considerations

Lexis Advance® Practical Guidance – Private Client Module offers step-by-step guidance for practitioners serving individuals and families on a wide variety of matters such as wills, probates, trusts and taxes.

The Private Client module is an unparalleled trove of precedents with drafting notes, alternative clauses, model letters along with helpful checklists and flowcharts. By aggregating the relevant practical content and guidance you need to tackle the matter at hand, we help you make the most of your time. When private clients ask questions, they expect answers – right away.

Lexis Advance® Practical Guidance Tax is a 'how-to' resource for tax practitioners, accountants and lawyers dealing with tax matters. The module provides step-by-step guidance and best practice advice, supported by on-point cases, legislation, checklists, forms and precedents.

Lexis Practical Guidance Tax showcases suggested best practices when dealing with tax advisory, compliance and legal issues. Authored by specialist contributors from top tax, accounting and law firms, as well as in-house counsels and industry experts, Lexis Practical Guidance Tax delivers their expertise to your fingertips.

What are some of the topics covered?

  • Equity Capital Markets
  • Property Tax
  • Private Equity Funds
  • Hedge Funds
  • Companies and Corporate Tax
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