LexisNexis

LexisNexis is a commercial host that specializes in the provision of information and technology solutions with full texts of international periodicals, press releases and business information. Especially in the Anglo-Saxon LexisNexis is also present as a provider of specialized databases with legal information.

The online retailer has about five billion documents. About three-quarters of the more than 36,000 sources of information in the field of economy or the media, a quarter of the area of ​​the law. The customer database vendor are represented in almost all industries and functional areas. The most important target groups in companies Business Development, Communications, Compliance, Consulting, Finance, Legal, Market Intelligence, Marketing, Mergers & Acquisitions, Patent, Research & Information, risk management, and sales are defined.

LexisNexis is part of the British-Dutch Reed Elsevier group. The company is a market leader in the U.S. and the British Commonwealth, has an annual turnover of around two billion euros and employs approximately 10,000 people. The company is the largest provider of legal information.

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Corporate Structure

LexisNexis is divided into the following organizational units, in each of these countries are one or more branches.

  • United States
  • Africa: South Africa
  • Europe: Germany, Belgium, Czech Republic, France, Netherlands, Austria, Poland, United Kingdom ( UK)
  • Canada, Russia
  • Latin America: Argentina, Chile, Mexico
  • Pacific: Australia, New Zealand
  • LexisNexis Asia: China, Hong Kong, India, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan

Distributors are also available in Denmark, Finland, Israel, Italy, Norway, Portugal, Russia, Spain and Sweden.

LexisNexis Germany

Building in Frankfurt

1991 LexisNexis Germany GmbH was founded. By 2004 the company was located at about 20 employees Frankfurt am Main. Main activities were in the range of distribution of the on-line database " LexisNexis economy" and the acquisition of German-language news sources that have been integrated under license in the online products. In order to provide your own, especially legal content, the 2002 MBO -Verlag in Münster and its call center was acquired in Rheine.

Activity in Münster

2004, the headquarters moved to Münster, where by the end of 2010, about 200 to 300 full-time employees under the direction of Christian Fleck (2007 CEO of LexisNexis Mexico to end) were active; This sparked off as Managing Director in January 2008 Olaf dumbbell. Also in 2004, the online legal database LexisNexis ® was published law. 2005 LexisNexis Germany acquired the ZAP -Verlag, thus expanding its portfolio in printed legal literature massively. The ZAP- books and magazines were usually part of the online databases. On 16 November 2010, LexisNexis and Wolters Kluwer Germany announced that LexisNexis Germany GmbH should be sold with the business units Legal and Regulatory at the end of 2010 Wolters Kluwer Germany (Cologne ); the area of ​​law in Germany with about 200 employees, has been completely sold afterwards. Through the sale of LexisNexis Germany GmbH at the end of 2010, the fact risen Brand MBO - Publishing and ZAP -Verlag went over with at Wolters Kluwer Germany. The online legal database is distributed law since February 2011 by Wolters Kluwer Germany under the new name JURION.

New LexisNexis GmbH in Dusseldorf

The field of online business information with the product categories Risk, Research, Monitoring, Intellectual Property and Academic & Library since 1 January 2011, the core business of LexisNexis GmbH in Germany. The categories include the following products and applications:

  • Risk Solutions: Lexis ® diligence: business partners verification
  • LexisNexis ® Bridger Insight XG ™: mass checks of contact
  • LexisNexis ® Risk Monitor: Risk Monitoring
  • Nexis ®: Search by Business Information
  • LexisNexis ® Publisher: processing of search results
  • Lexis.com ®: legal research
  • LexisNexis ® Analytics: Media Monitoring
  • LexisNexis ® Total Patent: Patent search
  • Patent Optimizer ™: development of patent applications
  • IP DataDirect -Patents: Patent raw data
  • Nexis ®: Search for Universities and Libraries
  • LexisNexis ® Academic: Legally focused Search

In Dusseldorf ( Heerdter Sandberg 30) as the site of the company in Germany in 2014 worked about 25 employees. Here is outsourced from the former LexisNexis Germany GmbH, newly founded LexisNexis GmbH. Managing directors are Michael octopus and Robert Veneboer.

LexisNexis Austria

LexisNexis Austria is a specialist publisher in Austria in the field of taxation, law and economics, which continues the tradition of the former publishing houses and ARD Orac under international umbrella.

Databases

LexisNexis performs all types of economic information in full text. This includes press releases, agency reports and the press reports of the world's major news agencies. The articles of most English-speaking and German-speaking many periodicals are covered by LexisNexis since the 1980s. LexisNexis provides the content of some of many thousands of daily newspapers, weekly newspapers and magazines in full text is available. Part of the data sets are also industry information and market overviews, as well as the company information of numerous specialized international and national suppliers.

The information people are biographies, public persons register ( Public Records ), population registers and licenses, mainly by U.S. citizens. For checking of business partners LexisNexis attacks in addition to PEP, sanctions and watch lists as well as, inter alia, to the EU Consolidated List, FATF, Interpol and to OFAC. The tools for media monitoring include digitized international print media and relevant websites, as well as publicly available social media sources. Also, patent information, and registered U.S. trademarks is available in full text and drawings.

Especially in Anglo-Saxon countries leads LexisNexis all kinds of legal full texts ( decisions, essays, current legal standards, other official publications, commentaries ), especially the Anglo-American law. The measures held U.S. policy decisions date back to the 1770s; Since 1980, the decisive, public U.S. judgments are completely contained in the database.

Access

The online use of data resources can be made after the conclusion on the World Wide Web. This usage is calculated on the number of users, the selected sources and the search volume.

History

Mead Data Central founded in 1973 in Dayton (USA) the information service Lexis for legal information. Lexis 1980 has been extended to the Nexis information service for media and business information. The German branch in 1991 took their operations in Frankfurt am Main. In 1994, the Reed Elsevier Group LexisNexis. LexisNexis has grown mainly through the acquisition and integration of existing information providers, such as the MBO -Verlag ( Germany ) in 2002, Les Editions du Juris Classeur (France) and Butterworth ( UK). 2005, the German headquarters of Frankfurt am Main was completely moved to Munster, in early 2011 again he was completely moved to Dusseldorf.

On 9 May 2005 LexisNexis confirmed press reports that personal data of about 32,000 users have become accessible to unauthorized third parties. This number, the company had to correct later, actually it was about 310,000 users. The data were acquired on 14 July 2004 the subsidiary company Seisint stolen. The theft was incurred prior to the purchase of the company and became known only in hindsight.

Terminals

Already in the 1970s offered LexisNexis in the U.S. an online service. Input, output devices and dial-in nodes were manufactured by LexisNexis for the customers in their own home.

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