Our next-generation due diligence solution is here, LexisNexis ® Due Diligence Dashboard is now Lexis ® Diligence. Lexis ® Diligence is here to … ƣ Enable better risk mitigation with more robust content, including added global sources ƣ Improve ease of use and reduce the need for training with a modern, straightforward interface ƣ Deliver more on-target results faster via flexible search and filtering options ƣ Standardize your due diligence process across the organization with powerful customization tools ƣ Supply a more meaningful search History to be used as an audit trail component Lexis ® Diligence Migration Guide
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Our next-generation due diligence solution is here, LexisNexis® Due Diligence Dashboard is now Lexis® Diligence.
Lexis® Diligence is here to … ƣ Enable better risk mitigation with more robust content, including added global sources
ƣ Improve ease of use and reduce the need for training with a modern, straightforward interface
ƣ Deliver more on-target results faster via flexible search and filtering options
ƣ Standardize your due diligence process across the organization with powerful customization tools
ƣ Supply a more meaningful search History to be used as an audit trail component
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This Migration Guide will …• Help you understand the benefits of the new interface
• Address questions you may have about the transition
• Teach you about key differences between Due Diligence Dashboard and Lexis Diligence
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Overview of Lexis Diligence features that satisfy LexisNexis Due Diligence Dashboard customer requests …• Clean and modern interface design
• Consolidated sources to ensure comprehensive results with much faster review
• Built-in Negative News in English and non-English languages
• Negative News searches can be customized, saved for ongoing use, and even shared across the organization
• Report Builder assembles documents across sources, automatically organizes results by entity, enables prioritization using drag and drop, and allows users to add notes highlighting key findings or next steps for other reviewers
• Preferences Admin Tool (PAT) enables setting (and locking) of features to ensure consistent process is followed across projects and users
• Enhanced History feature offers a more complete, downloadable search history for use as an audit trail component for regulatory compliance
• All content available in LexisNexis Due Diligence Dashboard, plus additional content including:
− All New Legal sources including: Non-U.S. court cases, Federal & State Agency Decisions, Verdicts & Settlements, FINRA Actions & Arbitration Awards, Int’l Law Reviews
− All New Country Risk Profiles
− Expanded global sanctions and Politically Exposed Persons
− Expanded News options, including Major World Publications
− Expanded Company Reports coverage
− Expanded Biographies
• Greater search flexibility/precision when searching public records via search forms customized for each source
• Ability to search name variants (e.g., maiden/married name) with a single search, instead of multiple searches
• Ability to add “no documents found” records to Report Builder
• Alert-set-up in OFAC and global watch lists
• Alert-set-up even when no results initially found
• Toggle to change interface display language (English, French, Dutch, German, Russian, Arabic, Brazilian-Portuguese)
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Anticipated QuestionsAs you transition from LexisNexis Due Diligence Dashboard to Lexis Diligence, we anticipate that you’ll have certain questions that we’d like to proactively address below. Should you have additional questions, please reach out to your LexisNexis Account representative who would be happy to help, or contact our 24/7 LexisNexis Customer Support team at 800-543-6862.
Logistics
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What is the URL for Lexis Diligence? It’s an easy one: www.lexisnexis.com/dd.
Will I need to learn a new ID and Password when accessing Lexis Diligence?
For most customers, the answer is “no.” Access to Lexis Diligence will be enabled on the same ID/Password that you previously used for LexisNexis Due Diligence Dashboard.
The exception would be if your organization and your LexisNexis account representative decide to use this transition as an opportunity to restructure your account and user groups, which could necessitate the need for new credentials to be issued.
Are there any changes to system requirements? No, the same recommendations for computer screen resolution and connection methods apply. LexisNexis Due Diligence Dashboard and Lexis Diligence also have the same minimum hardware requirements and support the same browsers.
Content
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I notice that the Lexis Diligence search forms include fewer checkboxes for sources than LexisNexis Due Diligence Dashboard.
While I like the simplified look, I’m mostly concerned about comprehensive coverage. Are all of the sources from LexisNexis Due Diligence Dashboard still covered?
Yes. Lexis Diligence includes all of the sources available in LexisNexis Due Diligence Dashboard – plus more!
In order to streamline the research process we have consolidated some sources and eliminated redundancies across others. This makes the process of selecting sources less “overwhelming” — a term some LexisNexis Due Diligence Dashboard customers have used to describe the volume of choices — and greatly reduces the amount of time needed to review the results.
Most importantly, these efficiency gains are delivered while expanding the depth and breadth of coverage on which you rely for complete due diligence.
I see the benefit of the consolidated approach to source selection, but how do I find the sources that I used to search now that they are renamed and located in different places?
We understand that you likely have a particular process you follow when conducting due diligence, including the selection of specific sources based on the LexisNexis Due Diligence Dashboard interface. While the new interface will require that you update your processes, we are confident that the efficiencies you gain over time, and the better risk mitigation you achieve via the additional content offered, will be worth the slight discomfort of the adjustment period.
Learning the layout of Lexis Diligence is the first step to understanding where familiar sources have gone. Then, review the source comparison tables to map sources from LexisNexis Due Diligence Dashboard Individual tab to Lexis Diligence Person Check; and LexisNexis Due Diligence Dashboard Company tab to Lexis Diligence Company Check.
You mentioned previously that Lexis Diligence includes all sources from LexisNexis Due Diligence Dashboard, “plus more.” What’s been added?
With Lexis Diligence, we have expanded coverage within content categories that were available with DDD, including additional News, Company Reports, D&B® Profiles, Sanctions & Warnings, Politically Exposed Persons, Biographical Sources, and Cases.
Lexis Diligence also includes all new categories of Legal information not found with LexisNexis Due Diligence Dashboard, including: Federal Agency Decisions; State Administrative Agency Decisions; Jury Verdicts & Settlements; and Law Reviews.
Lastly, we’ve added an entirely new workflow option with Lexis Diligence. So in addition to being able to check a person or company, you can evaluate the risk of doing business in a particular country with the Country Check. In addition to News and Negative News by country, this section includes Country Risk Reports, not available with LexisNexis Due Diligence Dashboard.
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The Lexis Diligence search pages look much more straightforward than LexisNexis Due Diligence Dashboard, which provides a cleaner appearance, but is the system as powerful?
As with LexisNexis Due Diligence Dashboard, the “power” of Lexis Diligence lies in
• Backend queries that simplify the research process while providing precise results
• The federated search capability, which enables many sources to be searched simultaneously, saving time as these searches would have traditionally been executed one-by-one
• The comprehensive collection of news, business, legal, and public records content that deliver a 360° view of a person or company
Lexis Diligence offers additional power via new product features and added content.
The Lexis Diligence search forms appear simpler than those in LexisNexis Due Diligence Dashboard. For instance, I notice that the address-specific fields have gone away and have been replaced by Additional Terms boxes. Can I still search by address? What are “Additional Terms”?
Yes, you can still search by address, though as with LexisNexis Due Diligence Dashboard, you should consider the applicability of this information to the sources you’ve selected. For instance, a complete address isn’t likely to be mentioned in a News article, but a city’s name could be. Where complete addresses can be most helpful are with public records sources, which are now in a unique part of the product, see more on this below.
“Additional Terms” can be any words or phrases that will add specificity to your search. The objective is to strategically narrow your scope in order to return more on-target results. For instance, when searching a person with a common name, you may wish to enter:
• Names of companies where the person currently works, or has worked in the past
• Names of other people closely associated with the individual (e.g., other execs at the same company, spouse’s name, etc.)
• Names of academic institutions where the person attended school
• Name of the person’s profession (e.g., physician, lawyer, accountant, etc.)
• Names of associations, clubs, or other organizations in which the person is a member
• Names of towns where your target lives or has lived
This strategy allows you to find results on the “right” person, not on everyone else by the same name. You could take a similar approach when searching a company with an ambiguous or generic name, such as “ABC Inc.”
So though the Lexis Diligence search form looks simple, it actually provides you with greater search flexibility than LexisNexis Due Diligence Dashboard and without the error messages that DDD users have reported as confusing.
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How do I use the AND/OR pulldown on the search form?
A person’s or company’s name (depending on which search form is used) is always searched in conjunction with Additional Terms. Whether you want all or some of the Additional Terms specified to be a required part of your search depends on whether you select AND/OR from each pulldown.
AND always narrows your search by requiring that all terms separated by this connector be required within the documents returned. In the example below, only documents that mention Lisa Richardson in conjunction with LexisNexis AND International Business Research AND Lawrenceville will be returned.
OR always broadens your search by allowing any of the terms separated by this connector to be required within the documents returned. In the example below, only documents that mention Lisa Richardson in conjunction with LexisNexis OR International Business Research OR Lawrenceville will be returned.
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Mixing AND and OR offers flexibility. In the example below, only documents that mention Lisa Richardson in conjunction with LexisNexis AND International Business Research OR Lawrenceville will be returned. So the person’s name and “LexisNexis” are required, but between “International Business Research” and “Lawrenceville,” only one of these terms is required.
Note, once you’re comfortable with the AND/OR operators, you may use them freely within any of the individual Search Terms boxes, including Additional terms boxes. As shown below,
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What’s this “Edit” button next to the Negative News option?
LexisNexis Due Diligence Dashboard customers told us that while they greatly value the Negative News search that LexisNexis provides (in fact, it’s their favorite search), that some of the terms that we utilize in our default query are not necessarily relevant to their needs, and that certain terms that are unique to their industry are not represented.
Well, we heard your feedback and have responded.
You can now utilize our default Negative News query as-is, OR you can choose to modify this query to suit your own needs by clicking the “Edit” link next to Negative News.
Best of all, if you change the query, you can save your changes for ongoing use, so you don’t have to make the change with each and every search you run (as you would with LexisNexis Due Diligence Dashboard). And if you leverage the Preferences Admin feature, you can apply your customized Negative News query to all users in your organization with one click. You can even “lock” the query if you want to ensure that everyone consistently uses the same search.
More good news. With Lexis Diligence we’ve created default Negative News queries for non-English languages as well. So now you can search Negative News in English AND non-English News … and you can customize these searches, in English and Non-English languages if you choose.
Is there a way to search alternate name variations?
Yes! Simply separate name variations with the “OR” option to look for variations with a single search. See the example below.
The reason that you can use this simple method with Lexis Diligence is that we’ve separated public records sources — some of which do not permit use of the “OR” operator – from non-public records sources.
Because these sources were frequently combined in LexisNexis Due Diligence Dashboard (via the “select all” option), you could not utilize this simple method, requiring that multiple searches be executed in order to cover simple name variations.
With the separation of public records (see next question) you cannot only receive more precise results when searching public records, but you gain greater search flexibility when searching non-public records content, such as being able to search name variants with a simple search by just using the “OR” option.
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I see a section on the right side of the page labeled Public Records Search Forms. Do I need to search public records separately now? Why was this change made?
Separating public records from non-public records sources gives you a few key advantages:
1. By separating public records, you can easily search name variations (see preceding question) with non-public records databases by using a simple “OR” operator.
2. By separating public records, you can now search public records using criteria specific to that content, such as: Social Security number, date of birth, specific address, parcel numbers, charter numbers, FEINs, previous states, etc.
Why do these two points matter? Because both enable you to create more precise searches, which produce more on-target results, which save you a tremendous amount of time in reviewing documents!
Reviewing Results
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How to I find results from specific sources that used to be on their own tab?
Though sources have been consolidated to reduce the overall number of tabs — thus increasing efficiency and reducing redundancy across tabs you can still access results from individual sources by leveraging the “Source” section of the Narrow Your Results panel along the left side of any results view.
For instance, in the example below, a search was run against D&B Global Profiles, a source that combines several D&B databases. By default, you’ll be looking at all combined results at once, but if you wish to isolate results from a single source, simply click on that source name in the Narrow Your Results panel.
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New Features
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I’m seeing several new features in Lexis Diligence that are unfamiliar to me, such as Report Builder and User Preferences. What new features have been added with the change to Lexis Diligence and why are they beneficial?
With Lexis Diligence we are introducing several new features that address unmet needs expressed by our LexisNexis Due Diligence Dashboard customers.
Country Check
Lexis Diligence offers a new search form called “Country Check” that enables you to simply select a country from a pulldown and pull risk reports that provide background on the country’s outlook, political and economic structure, plus negative news on the region.
Whether you’re performing due diligence on a prospective investment or business partner, researching a new market, or planning an export drive, the Lexis Diligence collection of Country Risk Reports enables you to evaluate the risk of doing business in a particular country. This is especially helpful for regions where you’ve never done business before, or in countries where you think there’s a high-risk, but need to learn more.
Customizable Negative News even in Non-English SourcesAs with LexisNexis Due Diligence Dashboard, the Negative News option within Lexis Diligence finds adverse news on a person or company by looking for the entity name in association with words like embezzle, fraud, indict, launder, etc. Unlike LexisNexis Due Diligence Dashboard, which offers Negative News for English-language publications only, Lexis Diligence offers Negative News for English and non-English languages, including Arabic, French, German, Italian, Portuguese (incl. Brazil), Russian, and Spanish.
Another new feature is that users can leverage our Negative News queries as-is, or customize them to meet their unique needs.
Regulators recommend the inclusion of adverse news searches as part of a complete due diligence program. With the LexisNexis global, comprehensive news coverage — with some sources spanning over 40 years — you can identify whether there’s an on-going pattern of negative activity to be considered. And since Negative News now covers English and non-English languages, it’s perfect for the global scope of today’s due diligence needs.
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Report BuilderThe Report Builder enables you to add relevant documents across any results tab associated with Person Check, Company Check, or Country Check. You can then email, print, or download the consolidated report.
Being able to download results into a report across multiple sources is a huge time saver. The finished product presents a relevant deliverable that can be shared with others involved in your due diligence project.
• Results are automatically categorized by the entity searched.
• You can prioritize documents using drag-and- drop technology.
• Notes can be added to summarize key findings or to specify next steps for other reviewers.
• The PDF output complies with the requirement of many organizations to deliver a non-editable format.
• The report automatically includes a table of contents to enable easy browsing and navigation.
You can even add “no documents found” records to Report Builder. From a due diligence perspective, the absence of documents — particularly in sources such as sanctions and watchlists — is as important as the presence of documents. This documentation can be particularly important if you are audited by a regulator and need to prove that adequate due diligence was performed.
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Examples of customization options include:
• Customizing negative news queries (in English and non-English languages) to suit your unique due diligence standards and industry particulars
• Setting default date ranges, such as 2 years for News searches
• Requiring that certain sources — such as Sanctions & Warnings — must always be searched by end users
Admin PreferencesLexis Diligence offers powerful customization features that enable you to adapt the tool to your internal processes. Fine-tuned settings can be easily applied by an assigned administrator to all users in the account, ensuring both process consistency and adherence to due diligence protocols.
• Setting PDF as the only download format, for customers with a requirement for a non-editable delivery
Setting defaults at an organizational level ensures that all users within an account are performing due diligence using the same approach and in a manner consistent with the organization’s risk based due diligence protocols.
User PreferencesUser Preferences are similar to Admin Preferences, except that individual end users do not have the ability to control settings beyond their personal use. By selecting preferred search forms, sources, date ranges, and so on, you can speed your research process by eliminating the need to consider each individual search option with every query. Note that end users cannot override a setting “locked” by an administrator.
HistoryThe History feature within Lexis Diligence overcomes many of the limitations of the equivalent feature in LexisNexis Due Diligence Dashboard. It displays the searches a user has run over the past 30 days with no limit on the number of entries. It displays the name of the entity searched, the source type/source name, complete query, date/time stamp, and cost code. History entries can even be downloaded as a PDF or spreadsheet.
You can quickly resume work from past sessions by re-running any query from the History. And even more importantly, by downloading your Search History, you instantly create another component to your audit trail, which is essential for regulatory compliance.
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Alerts
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I had some alerts set up, where did they go? If you created Alerts via the Individual or Company tabs in LexisNexis Due Diligence Dashboard, your alerts are stored under the nexis.com® link beneath the Additional Resources section of Lexis Diligence. If you’ve been receiving Alerts automatically via email, you emails will continue to be delivered with no interruption. Your ID/Password for Lexis Diligence and nexis.com are the same.
When you want to create new alerts, you should do so via the Alerts tab within Lexis Diligence (see below).
AlertsAn organization’s circumstances change all the time. Lexis Diligence lets you monitor key suppliers, partners, officers, directors, and other business associates in order to quickly take action on new opportunities or mitigate risks. Alerts help you monitor important changes in financial health, legal entanglements, and new conflicts of interest.
The latest results from crucial sources such as Negative News and Sanctions & Warnings can be delivered to your email or viewed online. Alerts through Lexis Diligence offer two new features that can be important to your process.
1. An alert can be created from any source available via Person Check, Company Check, or Country Check, including Sanctions & Warnings content (OFAC among many) and Politically Exposed Persons. These could not be saved as alerts with LexisNexis Due Diligence Dashboard.
2. Alerts can be set up even if no results are initially found. Even if your initial search finds no results it doesn’t mean that results won’t crop up in the future, so being able to create Alerts even when no results are initial found is vital. This feature is new with Lexis Diligence.
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Additional Resources
Question Answer
I used to use the Nexis® (or Lexis) tab to run certain types of searches, or access sources not covered in the main LexisNexis Due Diligence Dashboard workflow. Is that still available?
Yes, instead of seeing a Nexis or Lexis tab across the top of the LexisNexis Due Diligence Dashboard page, you’ll see a link in the Additional Resources section of the Lexis Diligence home page. Check out the layout comparison to learn where to go. Your content coverage will be identical.
Where did the Web sources go, and the In the News section?
Links to external websites and In the News links are now available via the Resources tab in Lexis Diligence. Check out the layout comparison to learn where to go.
Training & Support
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What should I do if I need more help learning how to use Lexis Diligence?
When LexisNexis was selected as your information partner, your organization secured a variety of support options, all at no additional cost.
24/7 Customer support: 800-543-6862
Telephonic training: Arrange a customized telephonic consulting session by calling 800-227-9597 Ex.52111; or by Completing this online form.
In-person training: Talk with your LexisNexis Account Representative about our in-person training options.
Self-service options:
• Instructional video tutorials ranging from 90 seconds to 10 minutes on a wide variety of aspects of using Lexis Diligence
LexisNexis Due Diligence Dashboard Objection: The same publications are covered on multiple tabs, creating redundancy, which is time consuming to review.
If you select certain sources simultaneously, you will find overlapping results across tabs. For instance, Screen #1 below shows results from “Company Profiles,” while Screen #2 shows “International Company Profiles.” In the first five results alone, four documents are the same across tabs.
Screen #1
Screen #2
Lexis Diligence Solution: Overlapping sources are eliminated.
By consolidating closely related sources under a single tab, the overlapping of sources across tabs is eliminated.
Below this point are support materials linked to from the Q&A sections above.
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LexisNexis Due Diligence Dashboard Customer Objection: It takes too long to review results due to the large number of tabs; navigation is cumbersome; and the order of tabs doesn’t “make sense.”
For each source selected on the search form, you are presented with a corresponding tab of results to review. When you “select all” sources you are presented many tabs and subtabs to review. LexisNexis Due Diligence Dashboard customers have expressed that clicking on this many tabs is too time consuming.
Furthermore, some customers have complained that the order of results doesn’t “make sense.” For example, with a Company search, the default source is Business Locator, which provides helpful identification information, but no red flags.
With Lexis Diligence, sources are searched in a more consolidated manner, so the same comprehensiveness is achieved — in fact, even more global content is covered — but with fewer tabs of results to review. Sources are still divided into logical categories for ease of review. Fewer tabs mean much faster results review — at least 3 times faster. Filters on the left side of the results page can be used to pinpoint particular sources, subjects, etc.
Negative News is the default tab. LexisNexis Due Diligence Dashboard customers have expressed that this is their priority because of the immediate red flags that can be revealed.
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Layout Comparison: LexisNexis Due Diligence Dashboard vs. Lexis DiligenceDDD Premium Top Level Navigation
Lexis Diligence Comparative Features
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Due Diligence Dashboard—Individual Tab Lexis Diligence—Person Check
If you selected this source in LexisNexis Due Diligence Dashboard …
Select this source in Lexis Diligence …
Person Locator Comprehensive Person Report/Person Locator*
Social Sec Death Records Comprehensive Person Report/Public Records— All Searches*
Bankruptcies Comprehensive Person Report/Bankruptcies, Judgments & Liens*
Judgments & Liens Comprehensive Person Report/Bankruptcies, Judgments & Liens*
Property Records Comprehensive Person Report/Property Records*
Professional Licenses Comprehensive Person Report/Professional Licenses*
General News All English Language News†
Negative News All English Language News† (Negative News option)
Non-English News All Non-English Language News†
Corporate Filings Corporate Filings
Company Profiles Company Reports†
Executive Directories Biographical Sources†
Fictitious Business Names Fictitious Business Names
D&B Global Market Identifiers D&B Global Profiles†
D&B Minority & Women Owned Businesses D&B Global Profiles†
D&B Private Company Insight Company Reports†
HHS Excluded Individuals/Entities Company Reports†
U.S. District Court Civil & Criminal Filings Dockets
Combined State Civil & Criminal Filings Dockets
Criminal History Comprehensive Person Report / Criminal History*
Federal & State Court Opinions Cases†
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* The Comprehensive Person Report automatically covers this source, but the source can also be searched individually † Indicates that Due Diligence Dashboard source is covered, plus new sources are now available
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Source Comparison Table—LexisNexis Due Diligence Dashboard Company Tab vs. Lexis Diligence Company Check
Due Diligence Dashboard—Company Tab Lexis Diligence—Company Check
If you selected this source in Due Diligence Dashboard … Select this source in Lexis Diligence
Business Locator Comprehensive Business Report/Business Locator*
Corporate Filings Comprehensive Business Report/Corporate Filings*
Company Profiles Company Reports†
D&B FEIN D&B Global Profiles†
D&B Global Market Identifiers D&B Global Profiles†
D&B Minority & Women Owned Businesses D&B Global Profiles†
D&B Private Company Insight Company Reports†
Experian® Business Reports Company Reports†
Fictitious Business Names Comprehensive Business Report/Fictitious Business Names*
International Company Profiles Company Reports†
PIERS Trade Profiles Company Reports†
Directory of Corp. Affiliations Company Reports†
Exhibit 21 of SEC Filings Company Reports†
Mergerstat® Company Reports†
Corpfin Worldwide Company Reports†
General News All English Language News†
Distressed Company Alerts Company Reports†
Distressed News All English Language News† (Negative News option)
Negative News All English Language News† (Negative News option)
Chinese Company Announcements All English Language News†
Non-English News All Non-English Language News†
Annual Reports to Shareholders Company Reports†
Proxy Statements Company Reports†
Periodic Reports (10-K, 10-Q, 8-K etc.) Company Reports†
Insider Trading Filings Company Reports†
Material Contracts Company Reports†
SEC No Action Letters & Releases Federal Agency Decisions
Vickers Institutional Holdings Company Reports†
Sagient Placement Tracker PIPE Database Company Reports†
HHS Excluded Individuals/Entities Company Reports†
OFAC & Global Sanctions Sanctions & Warnings†
OSHA Inspection Reports Public Records—All Searches
Politically Exposed Persons & Foreign Agent Registrations Covered by Person Check
Producer Sanction Report Company Reports†
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Due Diligence Dashboard—Company Tab Lexis Diligence—Company CheckIf you selected this source in Due Diligence Dashboard … Select this source in Lexis Diligence
U.S. District Court Civil & Criminal Filings Dockets
Combined State Civil & Criminal Filings Dockets
Federal & State Court Opinions Cases†
Judgments & Liens Comprehensive Business Report/Bankruptcies, Judgments & Liens*
UCC Liens Comprehensive Business Report/Public Records - All Searches*
Bankruptcy Comprehensive Business Report/Bankruptcies, Judgments & Liens*
ISS Corporate Governance Quotient Company Reports†
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* The Comprehensive Business Report automatically covers this source, but the source can also be searched individually † Indicates that Due Diligence Dashboard source is covered, plus new sources are now available
Expanded Coverage within Existing Content CategoriesThe lists below show expanded coverage within categories of information previously available with DDD. For instance, while DDD offered Sanctions sources, those shown below are new to that category. To reiterate, all previous DDD sources are still available, all sources below are additional for even greater coverage.
Sources available in both products not listed below; see comparison tables above to learn more about sources covered in both solutions.
Additional News Sources*Major World Publications Dutch Language News
Major World Newspapers French Language News
UK Publications German Language News
U.S. News Italian Language News
Asia Pacific News Portuguese Language News
All News, All Languages Russian Language News
Arabic Language News Spanish Language News
* All of these sources can be selected with Negative News or the broader News search options; this flexibility was not available with DDD.
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Additional Company ReportsBankruptcy Court Documents Nelson’s Specialty/Regional Analyst Coverage
Bankruptcy DataSource — Plans of Reorganization NetProspex Contacts Database
BMI Company Analysis Reports News Invest — Actualités des introductions en bourse
Defense Office of Hearings & Appeals Decisions International Trade Commission General Counsel Memoranda
ALL NEW Legal Content CategoriesThe lists below include sources from completely new legal content categories. These source types were not included with DDD.
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All New: Federal Agency Decisions — continued …
Department of Agriculture Board of Contract Appeals Decisions
Interstate Commerce Commission Decisions
Department of Education, Office of Hearings & Appeals Decision
IRS Actions on Decisions
Department of Energy Board of Contract Appeals Decisions IRS Cumulative Bulletin and Internal Revenue Bulletin
Department of Interior ALJ Decisions IRS General Counsel Memoranda (Archive)
Department of Interior Board of Contract Appeals Decisions IRS Private Letter Rulings and Technical Advice Memoranda
Department of Interior Board of Indian Appeals Decisions IRS Revenue Rulings
Department of Interior Board of Land Appeals Decisions IRS Technical Memoranda (Archive)
Department of Justice 1984 Merger Guidelines Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB) Decisions
Department of Justice Business Review Letters Merit Systems Protection Board Administrative Judge Initial Decisions
Department of Justice Proposed Decrees & Judgments Merit Systems Protection Board Decisions — Board and AJ Decisions Combined
Department of Justice Vertical Restraints Guidelines Motor Carrier Cases
Department of Labor Benefits Review Board Decisions NASA Board of Contract Appeals Decisions
Department of Labor Board of Contract Appeals Decisions National Labor Relations Board Decisions
Department of Labor ERISA Opinion Letters National Labor Relations Board General Counsel Memoranda
Department of Labor Wage & Hour Opinion Letters National Mediation Board Decisions
Department of Transportation Aviation Decisions National Transportation Safety Board Decisions
Department of Transportation Board of Contract Appeals Decisions
Native American Solicitor’s Opinions
Department of Veterans Affairs, Office of General Counsel Decisions
NLRB Regional Director Decisions
Departments of Interior and Commerce NOAA Administrative Decisions
Nuclear Regulatory Commission Decisions
Dept. of Housing and Urban Development Office of Administrative Law Judge Decs.
Office Comptroller Currency Enforcement Decisions
Dept. of Housing and Urban Development Office of Appeals Decisions
GA Trial Reporter TN Jury Verdicts and Settlements
ID Jury Verdicts & Settlements TX — North TX Reports
IL Reporter, VerdictSearch® TX Reporter Soele’s Trial Report
IN Jury Verdict Reporter TX Reporter, VerdictSearch
KY Trial Court Review TX Trial Reports
LA Jury Verdict Reporter UT Rocky Mountain Verdicts & Settlements
LA Jury Verdicts and Settlements VA Metro Verdicts Monthly
MA JAS Publication VT Jury Verdict Review & Analysis
MA Jury Verdict Review & Analysis WA Arbitration Decisions
MD Metro Verdicts Monthly WA Jury Verdicts & Settlements
ME Jury Verdict Review & Analysis WI Jury Verdicts and Settlements
MI Trial Reporter Federal Jury Verdict Reporter
MN - Twin City Jury Verdicts Reporter LexisNexis Jury Verdicts and Settlements — Mealey’sTM
MO and IL Jury Verdicts Medical Litigation Alert
MS Jury Verdict Reporter National Jury Verdict Review & Analysis
MS Jury Verdicts and Settlements The National Law Journal® Annual Verdict and Settlement Review
NC Jury Verdicts & Settlements Verdicts, Settlements and Tactics
NH Jury Verdict Review & Analysis
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All New: Law ReviewsAustralian Law Journals
Law Reviews, CLE, Legal Journals & Periodicals
UK Law Journals
ALL NEW Workflow: Country CheckIn addition to Person Check and Company Check — which correspond to similarly named tabs in LexisNexis Due Diligence Dashboard — Lexis Diligence offers an entirely new workflow option, the Country Check. Country Check enables you to evaluate the risk of doing business in a particular country. This is especially helpful for regions where you’ve never done business before, or in countries where you think there’s a high risk, but need to learn more. In addition to covering News and Negative News by country, this Check includes country risk reports not found with LexisNexis Due Diligence Dashboard, as shown below.
All New: Country Risk ReportsD&B Country Riskline Reports EIU Business Middle East Select
Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) Country Commerce Select EIU Country Monitor Select
EIU Business Africa Select EIU CountryData Reports Select
EIU Business Asia Select EIU India Business Intelligence Select
EIU Business China Select EIU Market Indicators & Forecasts Select
EIU Business Eastern Europe Select EIU Risk Briefing Select
EIU Business Europe Select EIU ViewsWire Select
EIU Business Latin America Select EIU World Investment Data & Forecasts Select
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LexisNexis Due Diligence Dashboard Objection: The search form can be confusing.
The search form includes fields that are not always applicable to the sources selected. In cases where the information isn’t considered relevant to the chosen source, my entry may be disregarded, which can be confusing. The use of some fields in conjunction with some sources produces error messages, which cannot be overcome until I deselect the offending titles, which then must be searched separately.
Lexis Diligence SolutionSimplified search form.
The search form is simplified so an entity name is entered along with “Additional Terms” of any type. You may enter whatever words would help clarify or narrow the scope of the search (person, place, thing, subject, etc.). Basic Boolean operators can be selected from a pulldown (and used within each text box).
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LexisNexis Due Diligence Dashbaord ObjectionThe public records results are often too general; I have more information that would narrow the search, but there are no fields on the search form to enter this detail.
When it comes to searching public records, you are limited to fields that are generally applicable across all sources, which means that fields that relate to a specific type of public record (e.g., Social Security number, date of birth, phone number, previous state, etc.) cannot be leveraged. Without the ability to add additional criteria, your results can be very broad, particularly when searching a common name.
The example below assumes that you know that Lisa Richardson currently lives in North Carolina and previously resided in California and New Jersey. Because no “previous state” field is available — and the Additional Terms box cannot be used in conjunction with the Person Locator — you would have no choice but to search this common name with the current state only, which produces 249 results.
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Lexis Diligence SolutionSearch forms tailored to each public records source.
By enabling you to fine-tune your search based on all available data within a public records source, you will have greater search flexibility, which will allow you to reduce the volume of irrelevant results and cut down on the time it takes to review documents. With the search below, only one record (the correct one) is retrieved.
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LexisNexis Due Diligence Dashboard ObjectionDue Diligence Dashboard doesn’t enable customization, so we must reselect our required parameters with each query, which is time consuming and can lead to inconsistencies across investigations and users.
With Due Diligence Dashboard, certain selections “persist” across sessions, particularly the checkboxes next to sources last searched by the user. However, it does not have any options for setting default sources or date ranges. Similarly, though you can modify the negative news query on a per-search basis — say to add or remove particular keywords — you cannot save these changes, so you must make the same modifications with each search.
Many customers have expressed that while this inability to customize the interface is frustrating and time consuming, a greater concern is that users are not consistently searching across investigations, and that different users within the same organization are searching differently when they’re meant to follow the same due diligence protocols.
The PAT enables administrators to set (and lock, if desired) specific defaults to be applied across all users, such as the selection of particular sources, the application of particular negative news terms, and the default date restriction. If an attribute is not locked by the administrator, individual users will have the ability to set their own personal preferences as well.
The PAT will save customers time (not having to reselect their choices with each search) and will ensure consistency across users and investigations, which will enable customers to better enforce internal compliance policies/procedures.
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DDD ObjectionThe History feature is an inadequate audit trail: It doesn’t show which source was searched; abbreviates the query; doesn’t go far enough back (7 days or 100 searches); and has no output options.
The History feature is relied upon by many due diligence researchers as a component of an audit trail. An “audit trail” is an objective record of one’s due diligence activities concerning a particular person or entity. Should an organization be investigated by a regulating body, such as the SEC or DOJ, proof that adequate due diligence was conducted prior to doing business with an entity can limit the organization’s liability.
The term “due diligence” first came into common use as a result of the U.S. Securities Act of 1933. This Act included a so-called “due diligence defense,” which could be used by broker-dealers when accused of inadequate disclosure to investors of material information with respect to the purchase of securities. As long as broker-dealers exercised “due diligence” in their investigation into the company whose equity they were selling, and disclosed to the investor what they found, they would not be held liable for non-disclosure of information that was not discovered in the process of that investigation.
The entire broker-dealer community quickly institutionalized, as a standard practice, the conducting of due diligence investigations of any stock offerings in which they involved themselves. Originally the term was limited to public offerings of equity investments, but over time it has come to be associated with investigations of private mergers and acquisitions as well. The term has slowly been adapted for use in other situations. For instance, various anti-corruption/anti-bribery laws provide a due diligence defense.
The UK Bribery Act, for example, states that an organization will be guilty of failing to prevent bribery if anyone performing services on their behalf, whether in the UK or internationally, commits bribery. This could extend to joint venture partners, subsidiaries, suppliers, franchisees, contractors, advisors, intermediaries, or agents, and is punishable by an unlimited fine. The only defense is for the organization to prove it had adequate due diligence procedures in place designed to prevent bribery being committed. The “proof” is in the audit trail.
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Lexis Diligence Solution More robust History feature
Lexis Diligence includes a much more robust History feature that incorporates new information, including “check” name and source type, as well as downloadable formats in PDF or CSV. History entries will also extend back 30 days.
Note: The Negative News string is abbreviated in the on-screen display only — simply because of the amount of space it utilizes — however, the complete query, including all adverse terms used, will appear in the downloaded version of History.