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Essential intelligence and tools for legal professionals.

We provide essential intelligence for law firms to understand advisory relationships; execute detailed research on companies, industries and deals; and uncover corporate connections. Know the details. Act with precision. Retain the business.

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Who We Serve

  • Librarians & Knowledge Management

    Librarians are not only the gatekeepers of firm intelligence, they’re increasingly evolving how research is used for strategic decisions.

  • Business Development & Marketing

    Sustainable growth requires actionable intelligence. Monitor market trends, key developments, and competitors with hyper-focused data.

  • Conflicts & Dispute Resolution

    Navigate complex global corporations with deep corporate data. Get a 360-degree view of clients and uncover conflicts of interest.

  • Mergers & Acquisitions

    Pinpoint essential transaction insights to deliver a smooth, best-in-class strategy for M&A clients throughout the deal lifecycle.

  • Transfer Pricing

    Manage the complexity of tax advice for multinational clients with vast amounts of cross-border transactions using defendable interest rates and transparent reporting.

Track legal trends and streamline research across your law firm.

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Whether you’re focused on research, advice, or litigation, we have the solutions you need.

Build your research library and expand your toolkit for critical workflows like conflict resolution, M&A transactions, transfer pricing, and business development. Our essential solutions for law firms provide the tools needed to best serve and retain clients, lay the groundwork for new cases, or pivot into new markets.

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  • Company Financials & Fundamentals
  • Private Company Data
  • Professionals & Compensation Data
  • Corporate Trees
  • Ratings and Credit Intelligence
  • Leveraged Commentary & Data

The right strategy starts with in-depth research. Get what you need faster.

Company coverage that represents 99% of the world’s market capitalization. 

  • S&P Capital IQ financials from 88,000 public companies with 45,000 active public companies, representing 99% of the world’s market capitalization
  • Public and private company hierarchies for 7 million entities, including mapping to Legal Entity Identifiers, CUSIP numbers, S&P Global Credit Ratings, and more
  • Operational data in key industries like Airline, Banking, Hotels & Gaming, Healthcare Facilities, Homebuilding, Insurance, Internet Media, Managed Care, Mining, Oil & Gas, Pharmaceutical, Real Estate, Asset Managers, Restaurant, Retail, Semiconductor Equipment, and Telecom, Cable & Wireless
  • Sovereign profiles for 190+ countries worldwide
  • Profiles on 30,000+ private equity and venture capitalist firms, including investment professionals, limited partners, investment criteria, and fund data

The right strategy starts with in-depth research. Get what you need faster.

Private company data that gives you greater insight

  • Access approximately 50,000 listed and 15M+ private companies across the Americas, Europe, Middle East, Africa, Australia, and Asia
  • Headcount data for U.S.-based private companies is sourced directly from the Department of Labor; holding period data helps you understand how long investments are being held by private capital firms; and tearsheet revenue and EBITDA for private companies is now available in the Excel Add-In
  • Our proprietary private company intelligence is supported by data from industry experts and governments agencies, including the United States, Brazil, New Zealand, Western Europe, Australia, South Korea, and more

The right strategy starts with in-depth research. Get what you need faster.

Professional data from ExecuComp™ to better understand and connect with stakeholders.

  • Profiles for 7.3M+ public and private professionals, including 2.6M+ board members and 4.7M+ executives globally.
  • Annual compensation data from 1992 on the top five executive officers, including 850K + executives and 250+ data types including salary, bonus, directors fees, and stock options.

The right strategy starts with in-depth research. Get what you need faster.

Corporate trees that show the relationships between the companies and individuals you care about.

  • View detailed profiles on 7.3M+ public and private company executives, board members, and investment professionals globally
  • Map an individual’s relationship network based on employment history, education, and board memberships using our Relationship Tree solution
  • Overlay your own contact and relationship data to see your connections to an individual or company

The right strategy starts with in-depth research. Get what you need faster.

Credit ratings to track company/counterparty risk and identify potential downgrade of companies that may need litigation services.

  • S&P Global Ratings for 53,000 corporates, 61,000 financial institutions, 6,800 insurance companies, 970,200 sovereigns, and 85,200 structured finance entities
  • Moody’s Credit Ratings and Investors Services for rated fixed-income issuers and securities

Gain a 360-degree view of your clients’ universe with contextual insight.

News and data on leveraged finance, via Leveraged Commentary & Data.

  • Real-time news coverage on leveraged loan and high-yield bond originations, pricings, and trading, so you can follow deals and compare them against the market
  • Proprietary database built upon exclusive deal data, featuring credit stats, industry metrics, and investor technicals
  • Platform tools to help accelerate your workflow, such as deal screening, portfolio benchmarking, and deep-dives into specific issuers
  • Trend analysis, expert commentary, and topical research that contextualize the current market against more than 20 years of history
  • Company Financials & Fundamentals
  • Private Company Data
  • Professionals & Compensation Data
  • Corporate Trees
  • Ratings and Credit Intelligence
  • Leveraged Commentary & Data
  • Sector-Focused News and Research
  • Comparables
  • Corporate Yield Curves
  • League Tables
  • SNL Sector Data
  • Leveraged Commentary & Data

Gain a 360-degree view of your clients’ universe with contextual insight.

News, events, and filings with up-to-the-minute notifications for instant market updates on your focus industries.

  • Proprietary, sector-specific news coverage fueled by a 300+ editorial staff across 5 continents
  • Key developments from 20,000+ news sources, including events like announced and completed transactions, company forecasts and ratings, lawsuits, corporate structure changes, and dividends and splits
  • Transcripts covering 5,500+ companies across company-specific events, including live streaming coverage of 65%+ of earnings calls

Gain a 360-degree view of your clients’ universe with contextual insight.

Comparables to estimate the value of similar assets and companies.

  • Detailed estimates covering 19,000+ active companies from 670+ active contributors
  • 40+ data measures including EPS, Revenue, EBITDA, and more
  • Detailed information about debt and equity aspects of a company’s capital structure covering 82,000+ public and private companies, with equity capital structure data that covers 113,000+ public and select private companies worldwide

Gain a 360-degree view of your clients’ universe with contextual insight.

Corporate yield curves to benchmark debt and predict changes in the economy.

  • Comprehensive content including underlying bond constituent ISINs, prices and Z-spreads, standard deviations, observed and derived indicators, and number of market price observations and issuers 
  • All 11 GICS® sectors with 5+ years of history
  • 7 ratings, including AAA-CCC

Gain a 360-degree view of your clients’ universe with contextual insight.

League tables to gather competitive intelligence, generate leads for new business, and publicize “wins” for your firm.

  • Rankings for financial advisory and legal firms with the most M&A activity in the United States, Bermuda, and Canada are published quarterly
  • Aggregated by deal value and number of deals from January 1 through the end of each quarter
  • Mergers, acquisitions, or sales of companies in Bank & Thrift, Insurance, Specialty Finance, Securities & Investments, Investment Companies, Financial Technology, Real Estate, Energy, Technology, Media, Telecommunications, and more
  • Deal information gathered from press releases, financial reports, merger presentations, regulatory filings, company websites, and proprietary financial adviser and legal counsel surveys

Gain a 360-degree view of your clients’ universe with contextual insight.

SNL sector intelligence for deep insights into your practice’s industries of focus.

  • Sector-specific metrics and ratios for banking, insurance, real estate, energy, TMT, and metals & mining
  • Regulatory data for 45,000 holding companies, subsidiaries and credit unions
  • 6,500 public companies and 50,000 private firms worldwide

Gain a 360-degree view of your clients’ universe with contextual insight.

News and data on leveraged finance, via Leveraged Commentary & Data.

  • Real-time news coverage on leveraged loan and high-yield bond originations, pricings, and trading, so you can follow deals and compare them against the market
  • Proprietary database built upon exclusive deal data, featuring credit stats, industry metrics, and investor technicals
  • Platform tools to help accelerate your workflow, such as deal screening, portfolio benchmarking, and deep-dives into specific issuers
  • Trend analysis, expert commentary, and topical research that contextualize the current market against more than 20 years of history
  • Sector-Focused News and Research
  • Comparables
  • Corporate Yield Curves
  • League Tables
  • SNL Sector Data
  • Leveraged Commentary & Data

Solutions that work as hard as you do.

Your focus is on serving your clients. Our focus is on you.

Essential solutions, built with your workflow in mind.

  • S&P Capital IQ Platform

    Access a powerful array of financial data, analytics, and research. Our web-based platform combines deep information on companies, markets, and people worldwide with robust tools for analysis, idea generation, and workflow management.

  • S&P Capital IQ Pro platform

    Dive deep into sector intelligence on industries essential to the global economy. Conduct relevant analysis using industry-specific metrics and tools that go deeper than generalist data allows. Supplement with proprietary news and research to get a more comprehensive view of the subject.

  • Credit Analytics

    The essential solution for global counterparty credit risk analysis. Credit Analytics delivers credit scores, models, and tools to ease your workflow when running risk analysis on rated, unrated, public, and private companies.

  • Aftermarket Research

    Access in-depth research reports from over 1,700 brokers and independent research providers around the globe with our comprehensive Aftermarket Research offering, the single largest source for critical understanding of companies, sectors and regions. Easily locate the research you need with our robust searching tools, and receive email alerts of newly available research reports that match your search queries.

  • Leveraged Commentary & Data

    Behind every piece of leveraged loan data is a story. LCD provides in-depth coverage of the leveraged loan market through real-time news, analysis, commentary, and proprietary loan data.

  • RatingsDirect®

    The world looks to us for the essential view on credit risk. With RatingsDirect, we deliver. RatingsDirect is the official desktop source for S&P Global Ratings, and combines ratings and research with comprehensive market data and risk indicators that takes the guesswork out of business decisions.

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