Comprehensive Content, Detailed Accessibility

SOLAR^sec gives attorneys instant access to a comprehensive corporate legal knowledge-base of unparalleled content and scope. It contains in excess of 1.6 million agreements and other legal documents of around 30,000 companies representing 1,000 industries. These documents contain more than 46 million searchable legal provisions and 24 million defined terms and definitions. The database is current and updated every business day with an average approaching 600 new legal documents daily.

Although SOLAR^sec contains tens of thousands of "forms" of agreements, it goes far beyond the standard form to deliver real, precise precedent transactions tailored to the unlimited permutations of deal specifics, industries, and jurisdictions.

SOLAR^sec provides the unprecedented capacity to easily conduct provision by provision comparison of similar transactions. Such comparison brings invaluable issue specific knowledge, experience, and focus. It exposes the latent differences which separate good contracts from excellent ones, and it disciplines the process of legal analysis making a better, more complete, and efficient legal product.

SOLAR^sec's superiority lies not only in its ability to deliver a universe of material and retrieve very specific information in ways impossible to either EDGAR or other commercial EDGAR search services, but in its ability to keep that information always at the fingertips of the user. Its unique and unparalleled capacity for information and document retrieval make it a superior research tool. That SOLAR^sec keeps this information constantly at your fingertips, it becomes a powerful and indispensable analysis tool for the corporate legal practitioner or securities analyst.

SOLAR^sec is an internet accessed, database search service. It contains securities filings drawn from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's EDGAR^® database. Proprietary SOLAR^sec software analyzes and databases this material to truly unlock the vast corporate legal and securities information contained in the expansive but unwieldy EDGAR.

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Corporate Legal Knowledge-Base
SOLAR^sec has search enhanced the EDGAR database to provide information access on the bases of content type and legal features. The SOLAR^sec database is intuitively subdivided into the following discrete legal practice fields:
	Finance	Mergers & Acquisitions
	Business, Transactional & Commercial	Employee Matters (including Benefits and Executive Compensation)
	Intellectual Property	Real Estate
	Tax	Investment Companies
	Bankruptcy	Insurance
	Shareholders & Securities Matters	Business Organizational/ Corporate Governance
	Residual Categorizations for Unique or Specialized Matters
The purpose of a knowledge-base is to organize and deliver the collective knowledge and know-how of the corporate legal industry. Understanding that being in buried in a mass of precedent agreements is only slightly better than having none at all, SOLAR^sec is designed to deliver the most relevant handful.

SOLAR^sec's Blue Chip Corporate Law Firms
An ordered list of the most prolific law firms in the SOLAR^sec database over the past decade.
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP Latham & Watkins LLP Kirkland & Ellis LLP Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati PC Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Preston Gates Ellis LLP Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP Jenkens & Gilchrist, A Professional Corporation ( closing) Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP O'Melveny & Myers LLP Cooley Godward Kronish LLP DLA Piper Sullivan & Cromwell LLP Ropes & Gray LLP Shearman & Sterling LLP Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison LLP ( now bankrupt) Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz Davis Polk & Wardwell Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP Greenberg Traurig, LLP Hogan & Hartson LLP Sidley Austin LLP Goodwin Procter LLP Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw LLP Morrison & Foerster LLP Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker LLP Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP Cahill Gordon & Reindel LLP Vinson & Elkins L.L.P. King & Spalding Debevoise & Plimpton LLP Bingham McCutchen LLP Proskauer Rose LLP Dechert LLP Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P. Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP Jones Day Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP Ballard Spahr Andrews & Ingersoll LLP Hunton & Williams LLP Winston & Strawn LLP Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP McDermott Will & Emery Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo P.C. Alston & Bird LLP Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP White & Case LLP Foley & Lardner LLP Dorsey & Whitney LLP Baker Botts L.L.P. Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP Testa, Hurwitz & Thibeault, LLP Fenwick & West LLP Andrews Kurth LLP Pepper Hamilton LLP Dewey Ballantine LLP Sichenzia Ross Friedman Ference LLP Kaye Scholer LLP Baker & McKenzie Bryan Cave LLP Grushko & Mittman, P.C. Holland & Knight LLP Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP Heller Ehrman LLP Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP Haynes and Boone, LLP McGuireWoods LLP Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP Clifford Chance Squire, Sanders & Dempsey LLP Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP Powell Goldstein LLP Loeb & Loeb LLP Sullivan & Worcester LLP Irell & Manella LLP Foley, Hoag & Eliot LLP Dow Lohnes PLLC LeBoeuf, Lamb, Greene & MacRae LLP Stradling Yocca Carlson & Rauth Olshan Grundman Frome Rosenzweig & Wolosky LLP Baker & Hostetler LLP Krieger & Prager LLP Rogers & Hardin Locke Liddell & Sapp LLP Reed Smith LLP Troutman Sanders LLP Blank Rome LLP Gardere Wynne Sewell LLP Perkins Coie LLP Duane Morris LLP Thacher Proffitt & Wood LLP Stoel Rives LLP Swidler Berlin Shereff Friedman, LLP Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP Arnold & Porter LLP Choate, Hall & Stewart LLP

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What About EDGAR?

By law, all companies wishing to publicly trade some of their securities in the United States must file certain information with the Securities and Exchange Commission. This is a very expansive group of filers which include not only the few hundred companies in well tracked market indices, nor even the few thousand stock exchange traded companies, but indeed those and the many more thousands of commercial and investment companies that wish to have some of their shares offered to the public. Since the mid-nineties, all U.S. companies have been required to satisfy their information disclosure requirements electronically on the S.E.C.'s EDGAR^® database. Non-U.S. companies, too, are now generally required to file on EDGAR. EDGAR^®is a registered trademark of the US Securities and Exchange Commission.

Filing requirements arise on both periodic and event-specific bases. The periodic filing requirements include annual and quarterly reports. The event-specific filing requirements include registration of securities, communication with shareholders, and other important events. The specific information to be disclosed depends on which basis has arisen and will call for disclosure on a specific structured filing form. Further, the company must provide pertinent operative documents. In general, these include all material contracts of the company (often including license and intellectual property agreements, credit and loan agreements, real estate documents and lease agreements), forms of agreements, organizational documents (by-laws, corporate charters, LLC and partnership operating agreements etc.), underwriting agreements, merger and acquisition agreements (merger, stock purchase, asset purchase agreements), any instruments (agreements) affecting the rights of the security holders (voting trust agreements, shareholder agreements, registration rights agreements), legal opinions, financial information, and various other corporate, legal, and financial information.

About Us

The SOLAR^sec Information Service is a service provided by Applied Parsing LLC. The company was founded in 2003 by a corporate attorney in response to the pervasive knowledge management problems he perceived in his profession.

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"I'm happy to report there is a new player in town -SOLARsec.com - they've compiled an enormous database of agreements...- what's more, they have an incredibly powerful search algorithm that lets you burrow down to their data with incredible precision. Want to compare specific representations given in asset purchase agreements in the mining industry? With SOLAR^sec, you are only a few keystrokes away, and you can download a form in a word processor friendly format in seconds."

- Inhouseblog.com (a site dedicated to informing inhouse counsel on legal and practice issues and resources)

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What About EDGAR?

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