DealMarket.com, leading and award-winning one-stop-shop for Private Equity, and LexisNexis®, a leading provider of content and technology solutions, today announced a strategic partnership that will provide integrated access to the industry leading Lexis®Diligence platform from within DealMarket’s acclaimed DealMarketSTORE.
1. DEALMARKET OFFERS ENHANCED DUE DILIGENCE CAPABILITIES
FROM LEXIS NEXIS
DealMarket.com, leading and award-winning one-stop-shop for Private Equity, and
LexisNexis®, a leading provider of content and technology solutions, today
announced a strategic partnership that will provide integrated access to the industry
leading Lexis®Diligence platform from within DealMarket’s acclaimed
DealMarketSTORE.
ZURICH, SWITZERLAND, 23. October 2013 – Market participants are demanding better service and cost
control - and DealMarket offers an online store providing private equity buyers, sellers and advisors with ondemand financial services – a one-stop shop designed by Private Equity professionals for Private Equity
professionals.
Available from today, users of the STORE from DealMarket will be able to launch comprehensive pay-as-you-go
due diligence checks into their counterparties using the Lexis Diligence platform.
Lexis Diligence pulls together multiple categories of premium business intelligence and makes them available
through a single search, e.g. background checks. Searches are run against a global news archive of over 23,000
news sources from international, national and regional newspapers, journals, blogs and newswires; over 150
databases of premium Company Information databases; Sanctions, Politically Exposed Person & Watchlists;
and international Legal History. All searches are time & date-stamped, providing an audit trail to help investors
to demonstrate professional due diligence have been conducted.
“We are excited by the opportunity for our clients created by this alliance,” said Urs Haeusler, CEO of
DealMarket. “Lexis Diligence has more than 10 years of development behind it and is used widely already in
the Compliance functions of many large businesses. This partnership with LexisNexis will be making it easier
for our clients to comply with their regulatory obligations. The DealMarket platform is easy to use, cost
effective and secure, providing access, choice and control across the investment cycle, especially in the field of
Due Diligence services/processes.”
2. “We believe this partnership represents a great opportunity to get the Lexis Diligence capability into the hands
of investors who need to perform low volumes of AML and KYC checks. DealMarket has been selected as the
Global Private Equity Platform for the last two years by Corporate LiveWire and we are excited to be working
together.” said James Ritchie, Head of Strategic Alliances at LexisNexis International.
About LexisNexis Legal & Professional
LexisNexis Legal & Professional (www.lexisnexis.com) is a leading global provider of content and technology
solutions that enable professionals in legal, corporate, tax, government, academic and non-profit organizations
to make informed decisions and achieve better business outcomes. As a digital pioneer, the company was the
first to bring legal and business information online with its Lexis® and Nexis® services. Today, LexisNexis Legal
& Professional harnesses leading-edge technology and world-class content, to help professionals work in
faster, easier and more effective ways. Through close collaboration with its customers, the company ensures
organizations can leverage its solutions to reduce risk, improve productivity, increase profitability and grow
their business. Part of Reed Elsevier, LexisNexis Legal & Professional serves customers in more than 100
countries with 10,000 employees worldwide.
About DealMarket
DealMarket is a global online platform enabling Private Equity buyers, sellers, and advisors to maximize
opportunities around the world – a one‐stop-shop for Private Equity professionals. DealMarket counts more
than 60,000 users, over 3,000 deals & service providers are listed on the platform.
DealMarket’s offering includes:
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DealMarketPLACE, an unfiltered view of the global deal and advice marketplace (free and premium
version available).
DealMarketSTORE offers affordable access to industry‐leading third‐party information and services on
demand.
DealMarketOFFICE is a state‐of‐the‐art Deal Flow management and deal exchange tool, helping Private
Equity investors and networks capture, store, manage and share their Deal Flow more efficiently.
Headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland, DealMarket was voted the “Best Global Private Equity Platform for 2012
and 2013” by Corporate Livewire.
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