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Ensure the ongoing financial health of key suppliers, clients or other entities your business relies upon.
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Protect your organization’s reputation and manage risk at scale with one-stop access to robust, critical business information.
The Nexis Diligence+™ solution helps you mitigate reputational, regulatory, financial and strategic risks by connecting you to critical intelligence needed for confidently vetting your customers, suppliers, partners, contractors and other third parties—effectively and efficiently.
Benefit from a higher standard in due diligence, combining sophisticated technology with an unmatched collection of global data to help you quickly identify potential threats, avoid disruption, make more informed decisions and provide sound recommendations to your company.
You can trust Nexis Diligence+™ to help you:
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Mitigate the risk of fines, legal expenses or reputational damages caused by association with unethical or criminal associates.
Ways to use Nexis Diligence+ tools
A higher level of due diligence
The Nexis Diligence+ solution includes several enhanced features to help you efficiently accomplish more.
Due diligence at scale. Upload and screen multiple companies or individuals in one easy search, saving considerable time.
Lightning-fast results. Easily and quickly process due diligence reports in volume.
Insight-filled reports. Access visually driven reports that more quickly uncover insights for action or further research.
Customize dashboards. Shape dashboards that highlight the information and insights you find most important.
Upload your own data. Easily upload your own data to power more thorough and relevant analyses.
Ensure process consistency across all users by setting default preferences at an organizational level.
Search across multiple databases to get a more comprehensive, relevant overview of your targets.
View the results and decide which items you want to save, print or add to the Report Builder.
Monitor ongoing activity by creating Alerts in crucial sources, such as Adverse Media, ESG News and Sanctions & Watchlists.
Customize reports by prioritizing the information as required. You can also add your own annotations to the reports to summarize key points.
What’s covered and why it matters
Company Records
Sanctions & Watch Lists
Politically Exposed Persons (PEPs)
Biographical Sources
Legal Sources
“I don’t want to imagine a world where I don’t have access to Nexis Diligence+.”
Thomas, Principal at Veraxis Research Group
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Due to the nature and origin of public record information, the public records and commercially available data sources used in reports may contain errors. The Nexis Diligence service is not provided by “consumer reporting agencies,” as that term is defined in the Fair Credit Reporting Act, 15 U.S.C. § 1681, et seq. (“FCRA”) and does not constitute “consumer reports,” as that term is defined in the FCRA. Accordingly, the Nexis Diligence service may not be used in whole or in part as a factor in determining eligibility for credit, insurance, employment or another eligibility purpose that would qualify it as a consumer report under the FCRA.
Company Records
What’s Covered In addition to profiles of companies and the executives that run them, the Nexis Diligence+ solution features ESG Ratings provided by CSRhub, which aggregates data from socially responsible investment (SRI) analysis firms, along with 800+ nongovernmental organizations, government agencies, news feeds, social networking groups, smaller for-profit organizations and publishers.
Ultimate Beneficial Ownership data (powered by Dun & Bradstreet®) is available to help you identify hidden beneficiaries of a company or commercial entity as you seek to better address financial crime and anti-corruption regulations.
The Nexis Diligence+ solution also captures annual reports, SEC and other filings, bankruptcy reports, merger and acquisition transactions and earnings information.
Examples of data providers include:
• Best’s Company Reports • Bundesanzeiger Verlag • Creditreform® • CreditSafe • Dun & Bradstreet • Experian® Information Solutions • FBR Asian Company Profiles • Gale Group® • GlobalData Ltd. • Handshakes Capital Markets Data • Hoover’s, Inc. • IHS Shipping Data • Infocredit Group Business Information Reports • Integra Industry Reports • LexisNexis® Corporate Affiliations™ • London Stock Exchange • MERGERSTAT® M&A Database • Prospects of Wealth • SGA Executive Tracker
Why It Matters The Nexis Diligence+ solution offers you a powerful competitive edge, delivering access to a broad, comprehensive, and unmatched collection of regional, national and international content to help ensure you’ll never miss an important detail. Our solutions cover corporate hierarchies and parent/subsidiary structures, as well as:
• Ownership, including woman- or minority-owned status • Management structure, including key officers and board of directors • Lines of business • Worldwide locations
• Commercial credit scores from Creditsafe and Experian • Corporate strategy • Corporate history, including company name changes • Executive changes • Major products and services • Financial results and ratios, earnings reports, stock repurchases • Competitors • SWOT analysis • Mergers & acquisitions activity • Dun & Bradstreet® Ultimate Beneficial Ownership Data • Financial stability and delinquency risk scores • ESG ratings • Business associations
We even offer the flexibility to search multiple entities at once or entities in conjunction with an individual’s name, helping to clarify wider corporate connections.
Sanctions & Watch Lists
What’s Covered Sanctions & Watch Lists cover information compiled from multiple authorities and include domestic and global sanctions from over 1,400 watch lists originating from 180 countries and territories and translated from multiple languages, covering:
• White collar crimes • Crimes against humanity • Terrorist threats • Non-financial sanctions • Payment patterns and insolvencies • Unauthorized business activities • Warning lists by financial authorities • Disqualified directors and debarred companies • Minor penal procedures and/or civil procedures • International warrants, national wanted persons, regional warnings, detention records and civil records • Lists of international tribunals, anti-money laundering and anti-corruption entities • Special lists (e.g., persons associated with the Mafia, companies using slave labor)
Examples of lists include:
Why It Matters Working with formally sanctioned, disqualified or disbarred individuals or entities can lead to reputational damage, severe financial penalties, government sanctions, civil suits and enforcement actions by various regulators.
Politically Exposed Persons (PEPs)
What’s Covered The Nexis Diligence+ solution uses global politically exposed person (PEP) lists that include 1.5+ million profiles of PEPs, as well as those of their family members and close associates.
Why It Matters A PEP is someone who serves or has served in a prominent public function, or an individual who is closely tied to such a person. By virtue of their position and the influence that they may hold, a PEP presents a higher risk for potential involvement in corrupt activity, including bribery.
Countries around the world are tightening their anti-bribery laws in an effort to combat corruption. Regulators require a higher degree of due diligence when conducting business with PEPs; failure to perform adequate due diligence can expose your organization to reputational damage, multi-million dollar fines and substantial legal costs.
Biographical Sources
What’s Covered Biographical sources can reveal key facts about an individual, including:
• Personal information like date/place of birth, relatives and marital history • Career history, such as employment background, board memberships and executive compensation • Educational background and credentials • Activities, including participation in civic or philanthropic organizations • Recognition and awards
Why It Matters It is recommended that whenever performing due diligence on a company, the top officers should also be checked. The credibility, experience and personal history of key managers have a big influence on the risks involved in doing business. When performing due diligence on a person, it is important to understand their background. Biographical details can help you understand a person’s qualifications for their position, i.e., are they experienced enough to successfully function in their role.
Educational history enables credential verification and can potentially expose falsified information presented by the individual on their resume or transaction documents. Career history can help verify or contradict facts presented by the individual and can reveal if additional due diligence is required as part of your current research. Additional due diligence on the former entity, and your contact’s involvement with it, could highlight risks that threaten your current transaction.
Even personal memberships in organizations can expose potential risks. For instance, it could be a conflict of interest to award business to a supplier whose president is a fellow member of a civic group to which your own management belongs.
Pricing
Nexis Diligence+ enables you to work at scale and upload and monitor companies and persons in
bulk through the Entity View feature. As such, pricing is determined by the number of Investigations needed to run annually.
What are
Investigations?
How many
Investigations
do I need?
An Investigation is a search on an entity (company or person). Each time you run a search on an entity in Nexis Diligence+ or in Public Records accessed via Nexis Diligence+, it is counted as an Investigation. However, running multiple searches on the same entity within 24 hours only counts as one Investigation. Also, you can click into all content and documents within the same search as part of that same Investigation without triggering additional Investigations.
What are
Investigations?
We encourage customers to provide an estimate of how many entities they may need to research and monitor annually.
Consider:
1. How many unique entities do I need to vet?
2. How many times do I need to refresh that information annually?
For those who are still unsure, your representative can help guide you based on the number seats your company needs.
How many
Investigations
do I need?
You will NOT be blocked from running future searches or accessing any functionality within Nexis Diligence+ or Public Records. You will NOT be automatically charged or accrue any costs. However, your Client Manager will notify you of the overage and discuss next steps.
What happens if I exceed
my annual number of Investigations?
What happens if I exceed
my annual number of Investigations?
The Nexis Diligence+ solution draws upon hundreds of sources such as:
News & Web Media
Legal Sources
Cases & Dockets
Agency Documents
Verdicts
Law Reviews
Why It Matters An understanding of an entity’s litigation history can help predict the likelihood of future legal entanglements, which could be costly in terms of legal fees, settlements and punitive damages.
Litigation search results can also be used to gain a general impression of the target’s business practices. If the company is a mature business that has not been involved in any significant litigation, generally there is a positive impression of how the target runs its business.
By contrast, a significant amount of litigation or litigation that involves claims of fraud, corruption or human rights violations should raise concerns about a company’s business practices and encourage some additional due diligence.
What’s Covered Of the quality information for which LexisNexis is known, legal sources are often considered our specialty. Most competitors in the due diligence space, if they include legal information at all, do not cover courts outside the United States, which is vital as the need to perform global research becomes commonplace. Cases on the LexisNexis services include decided court cases—civil and criminal—from state, federal and international courts, covering the United States, Canada, England, Wales, Ireland, Northern Ireland, Scotland, European Union, Malaysia, Brunei, Hong Kong, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa.
In addition, cases from the International Court of Justice, the principal judicial organization of the United Nations, are included. This Court’s role is to settle legal disputes submitted to it by member States covering multiple countries.
Dockets provide additional coverage of federal and state courts of the United States, including pending matters.
Cases & Dockets
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Sample of federal agencies covered:
Sample of state agencies covered:
Why It Matters Agency decisions arise from proceedings by an agency to enforce its statutes and regulations. An agency’s decisions are reported much as case law is reported from a court. Like court cases, agency decisions can be very costly and disruptive to an organization. Also, like court cases, certain types of agency decisions can be telling about the nature of a company’s operations, including unethical business practices involving bribery, forced labor, human trafficking, use of conflict minerals, toxic dumping and other corrupt practices.
A company that has violated an agency’s regulations can be subject to civil and/or criminal enforcement actions, disgorgement, fines, penalties and sanctions.
For example, the Securities and Exchange Commission may file an enforcement action, including multimillion- dollar criminal fines, against a company for violations of the anti- bribery provisions of the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA).
Because of the seriousness of the issues that can surface from agency decisions and the impact of enforcement actions on violators, it is imperative that any due diligence investigation include a search of this content to minimize the risk to your own organization by association.
Beyond issues of wrongdoing, you can learn more about your potential business associates by examining letters they’ve submitted to an agency; for instance, seeking the agency’s interpretation of how the company should operate in order to comply with a regulation.
What’s Covered U.S. Federal & State Agency Decisions combine decisions, opinions, orders, enforcement actions, no-action/interpretive/exemptive letters, decrees, judgments and rulings from various government agencies.
Agency Documents
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Why It Matters This information can be useful in helping you:
What’s Covered Jury Verdicts & Settlements provide access to selected online verdict and settlement information for civil cases across the United States. Case information covered includes verdict and settlement amounts, expert witnesses, case summaries and counsel data.
• Determine a pattern of litigation against a particular defendant • Determine source of funds and/or net worth of an individual • Determine the outcome of unpublished cases
Verdicts
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What’s Covered Nearly 1,000 law reviews, bar journals, ABA journals, legal newspapers, legal newsletters and specialty legal publications.
Why It Matters Law reviews can help explain cases in plain English so that you can better understand the facts in dispute. Also, law reviews may discuss cases in regions of the world, thus expanding your awareness of a company's or person’s litigation environment.
Law Reviews
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News & Web Media
Adverse Media
ESG Custom News
General News
Public Records
Adverse Media
LexisNexis® offers global, robust news coverage— including substantial archival data—that’s provided directly from publishers. The result? You never need to worry about missing a negative story and can quickly identify whether there’s an ongoing pattern of negative activity that needs to be addressed.
In the snapshot view, you can gain insight even faster using concise summaries of negative news. The summaries are extracted from lengthy articles using generative AI.
The adverse media coverage, which includes English and non-English languages, pinpoints adverse news on a person or company by looking for associations with derogatory words like embezzle, fraud, indict, bankrupt, launder, etc. You can also tailor the sensitivity of these filters to align with your organization’s policy approach and share your customized settings with all users in your team for maximum consistency.
Nexis Diligence+ even highlights the exact words that triggered the hit, allowing you to save time by identifying red flags right away.
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ESG Custom News
Assessing the environmental, social and governance (ESG) performance of companies you rely on is more important than ever. Beyond the reputational, financial and long-term strategic risks of associating with poor ESG performers, organizations must consider a growing wave of ESG-focused regulations.
ESG custom news and the ESG Power Topics allow you to easily include ESG risk assessments in your due diligence and reporting, without slowing down.
You can align ESG custom news with your own organization’s governance standards and ESG commitments. Using the ESG Power Topics accelerates the process further, rolling up all relevant terms to save time and effort while uncovering relevant information.
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General News
The Nexis Diligence+ solution is one of the few services on the market that allows you to look beyond “adverse media,” covering all angles—the good, the bad and the ugly.
When searching for small businesses, private companies or entities in remote locations with limited available information, general news is an invaluable resource. Adverse media may be too restrictive and, in these instances, provide limited meaningful results. By broadening your search to include all news, you can gain a more comprehensive understanding of the entity and can identify bona fide concerns that might otherwise go unnoticed.
In addition, because due diligence is about understanding one’s business associates, not just about finding red flags, the news search can provide pertinent background information about an entity’s management, their business dealings, strategy, organizational structure, ownership and more.
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Public Records
Uncover unexpected connections between people, places and property, and make sure you don’t miss anything vital with LexisNexis® Public Records. Access our extensive collection of more than 90+ billion public records on individuals and organizations—including names, addresses, places of employment, mobile and unpublished phone numbers, licenses, property records, bankruptcies, liens, judgments and much more.*
* Public records access subject to credentialing.
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Arabic Catalan Chinese Danish Dutch English Finnish French German Italian Japanese Malay Norwegian Polish Portuguese
(incl. Brazil) Russian Spanish Swedish Turkish
Available in:
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Over 38k global print, broadcast and web news media sources, including newspapers, newswires, press releases, magazines, trade publications, broadcast transcripts and more.
• OFAC—Specially Designated Nationals (SDN) List; Non-SDN List, including Palestinian Legislative Council; Enhanced Sanctioned Countries List • Commodity Futures Trading Commission List of Regulatory and Self-Regulatory Authorities • Department of State, Directorate of Defense Trade Controls, Consolidated List of Debarred Parties • European Union Designated Terrorists Consolidated List • FBI—Hijack Suspects List; Most-Wanted List; Most-Wanted Terrorists List; Seeking Information List • Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) Actions File • International Police Most Wanted and Red Alerts • Office of Controller of Currency—Unauthorized Banks List • State Department Terrorist Exclusion List • United Nations Consolidated List • U.S. Bureau of Industry and Security—Denied Persons List; Unverified List; Entity List • World Bank Ineligible Firms List
• Army Corps of Engineers • Commodity Futures Trading Commission • Consumer Product Safety Commission • Department of Agriculture • Department of Energy • Department of Justice • Department of Labor • Department of Transportation • Departments of Interior and Commerce • Environmental Protection Agency • Equal Employment Opportunity Commission • Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation • Federal Aviation Administration Decisions • Federal Energy Regulatory Commission • Federal Reserve • Federal Trade Commission Decisions • General Services Administration • Health & Human Services • Housing & Urban Development • International Trade Commission • Internal Revenue Service • Office of Government Ethics • Office of the Comptroller of the Currency • Securities and Exchange Commission • Small Business Administration • Social Security Administration • Nuclear Regulatory Commission • U.S. Customs & Border Protection • U.S. Attorney General
• U.S. Comptroller General • State Attorney General Opinions • State Tax Agency Decisions • State Securities Agency Decisions • State Environmental Agency Decisions • State Workers’ Compensation Board Decisions • State Public Utilities Commission Decisions • Decisions from Other Miscellaneous State Administrative Agencies
• Gale Biographies • SGA Executive Tracker • Dun & Bradstreet Professional Contacts • The Complete Marquis Who’s Who® Biographies • The Official Board Biographies • Salutary • Morningstar, Inc. U.S. Executive Compensation Database • Executive Biographies from MorningStar, Inc
Screen Sanctions & Watchlists by customizable risk-level at scale, and see results right away on the Sanctions Snapshot and Entity View.
• Vickers Securities Report • Worldbox AG • Worldscope International Company Profiles • Zack’s Equity Research
API Available
What’s Covered Of the quality information for which LexisNexis is known, legal sources are often considered our specialty. Most competitors in the due diligence space, if they include legal information at all, do not cover courts outside the United States, which is vital as the need to perform global research becomes commonplace. Cases on the LexisNexis services include decided court cases—civil and criminal—from state, federal and international courts, covering the United States, Canada, England, Wales, Ireland, Northern Ireland, Scotland, European Union, Malaysia, Brunei, Hong Kong, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa.
In addition, cases from the International Court of Justice, the principal judicial organization of the United Nations, are included. This Court’s role is to settle legal disputes submitted to it by member States covering multiple countries. Dockets provide additional coverage of federal and state courts of the United States, including pending matters.
Legal Sources
Cases & Dockets
Agency Documents
Verdicts
Law Reviews
Cases & Dockets
Why It Matters An understanding of an entity’s litigation history can help predict the likelihood of future legal entanglements, which could be costly in terms of legal fees, settlements and punitive damages.
Litigation search results can also be used to gain a general impression of the target’s business practices. If the company is a mature business that has not been involved in any significant litigation, generally there is a positive impression of how the target runs its business.
By contrast, a significant amount of litigation or litigation that involves claims of fraud, corruption or human rights violations should raise concerns about a company’s business practices and encourage some additional due diligence.
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Sample of federal agencies covered:
• Army Corps of Engineers • Commodity Futures Trading Commission • Consumer Product Safety Commission • Department of Agriculture • Department of Energy • Department of Justice • Department of Labor • Department of Transportation • Departments of Interior and Commerce • Environmental Protection Agency • Equal Employment Opportunity Commission • Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation • Federal Aviation Administration Decisions • Federal Energy Regulatory Commission • Federal Reserve • Federal Trade Commission Decisions • General Services Administration • Health & Human Services • Housing & Urban Development • International Trade Commission • Internal Revenue Service • Office of Government Ethics • Office of the Comptroller of the Currency • Securities and Exchange Commission • Small Business Administration • Social Security Administration • Nuclear Regulatory Commission • U.S. Customs & Border Protection • U.S. Attorney General
What’s Covered U.S. Federal & State Agency Decisions combine decisions, opinions, orders, enforcement actions, no-action/interpretive/exemptive letters, decrees, judgments and rulings from various government agencies.
Agency Documents
Why It Matters Agency decisions arise from proceedings by an agency to enforce its statutes and regulations. An agency’s decisions are reported much as case law is reported from a court. Like court cases, agency decisions can be very costly and disruptive to an organization. Also, like court cases, certain types of agency decisions can be telling about the nature of a company’s operations, including unethical business practices involving bribery, forced labor, human trafficking, use of conflict minerals, toxic dumping and other corrupt practices.
A company that has violated an agency’s regulations can be subject to civil and/or criminal enforcement actions, disgorgement, fines, penalties and sanctions.
For example, the Securities and Exchange Commission may file an enforcement action, including multimillion- dollar criminal fines, against a company for violations of the anti- bribery provisions of the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA).
Because of the seriousness of the issues that can surface from agency decisions and the impact of enforcement actions on violators, it is imperative that any due diligence investigation include a search of this content to minimize the risk to your own organization by association.
Beyond issues of wrongdoing, you can learn more about your potential business associates by examining letters they’ve submitted to an agency; for instance, seeking the agency’s interpretation of how the company should operate in order to comply with a regulation.
Sample of state agencies covered:
• U.S. Comptroller General • State Attorney General Opinions • State Tax Agency Decisions • State Securities Agency Decisions • State Environmental Agency Decisions • State Workers’ Compensation Board Decisions • State Public Utilities Commission Decisions • Decisions from Other Miscellaneous State Administrative Agencies
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Why It Matters This information can be useful in helping you:
What’s Covered Jury Verdicts & Settlements provide access to selected online verdict and settlement information for civil cases across the United States. Case information covered includes verdict and settlement amounts, expert witnesses, case summaries and counsel data.
Verdicts
What’s Covered Nearly 1,000 law reviews, bar journals, ABA journals, legal newspapers, legal newsletters and specialty legal publications.
Law Reviews
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Why It Matters Law reviews can help explain cases in plain English so that you can better understand the facts in dispute. Also, law reviews may discuss cases in regions of the world, thus expanding your awareness of a company's or person’s litigation environment.
• Determine a pattern of litigation against a particular defendant • Determine source of funds and/or net worth of an individual • Determine the outcome of unpublished cases