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Securities Law News

Securities and Exchange Commission
Excellent web site, containing EDGAR filings, the SEC News Digest, SEC Decisions, Releases, proposed rules, and policy studies by SEC staff. www.sec.gov
Corporate Governance
Since 1995 the Corporate Governance site has provided news, internet links, a reference library, and has served as a discussion forum and network for the movement to enhance wealth through increased accountability by creating more democratic forms of corporate governance and corporate monitoring. www.corpgov.net
Institutional Shareholder Services Reports (on LexisNexis)
ISS Corporate Governance Quotient Reports evaluate the strengths, deficiencies and risks of a company's corporate governance practices and board of directors. ISS Proxy Research Reports provide vote recommendations for 33,000 stocks and mutual funds annually.  ISS has developed industry-leading "best practice" approaches to assessing the impact of proxy proposals on shareholder value for complex issues such as executive and director compensation, options expensing, and contested solicitations.
BNA's Corporate Governance Report
A monthly report, covering topics including: annual meetings of shareholders, application of the business judgment rule, audit committees, boards of directors, compensation committees, directory indemnification, executive compensation, directors' fiduciary duties, insider trading, piercing the corporate veil, poison pills, and minority shareholder rights.
BNA's Securities Regulation and Law Report
A weekly report covering regulatory, legal and legislative developments affecting the regulation of securities and commodities at the federal and state level. It reports the activities of Congress, the Administration the SEC, the Commodities Futures Trading Commission, FASB, and the professional associations regulation accounting practices in the securities and commodities industries. XXKF1439.A1S38 Law Library Reserve; 20-year backfile on Lexis and Westlaw.
Securities Class Action Clearinghouse
By digitizing and linking the full text of complaints, motions, judicial opinions, and other major class action filings into a Website with its own full-text search engine, the Stanford Clearinghouse offers information that is substantially more detailed and timely than can be found on other services which generally limit their databases to judicial decisions.

General Business News

EBSCO Business Source Complete
As the world’s largest full text business database, Business Source Premier provides full text for over 2,800 scholarly business journals, including full text for nearly 900 peer-reviewed business publications. Coverage includes virtually all subject areas related to business. This database provides full text (PDF) for more than 300 of the top scholarly journals dating as far back as 1922.
Nexis
Nexis, available through Lexis.com, is the legendary collection of newpapers, magazines, wire services, broadcast news transcripts, trade journals, and financial analysis. Special strengths: Nexis is worldwide in scope, and covers many non-English language sources; only Nexis has a complete archive of New York Times full text; and databases of news from specific industries, countries, or regions.
Westlaw
Westlaw provides news from Dialog Newsroom, which includes the full text of the New York Times and thousands of other sources. The main news file is called ALLNEWS.
ABI-INFORM on ProQuest Direct
ProQuest Direct is another important source of business news. ProQuest Direct is the online service of Bell & Howell, a distributor of business and magazine e-journals (ABI-INFORM) and trade journals (Business Dateline). ProQuest Direct has many unique titles, including a growing number academic journals, and offers many articles in PDF format, rather than plain text.
Factiva
Factiva has the full text of thousands of newspapers, magazines, business and trade journals. (Essentially all of the news sources available on Westlaw.) A handy feature is "News Pages," which gives quick acces to cover stories and main features from the current issues of the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, BusinessWeek, Barrons, Forbes, and Fortune.
The Wall Street Journal
From 1984 to the present, from Proquest Newsstand.. The Historical Wall Street Journal, from 1889 to 1987, is available from ProQuest Historical Newspapers.

Note: Many publishers will not allow online services to publish the most recent issue, but make headline stories available free at their own web site. Check our News page for links to newspaper and broadcast news web sites.

SEC Filings (EDGAR)

Treatises and Loose-leaf Services

CCH Internet Research Library - Business
The Securities section has the full text of federal securities law and rules, cases, SEC releases, state Blue Sky Law law--statutes, rules, cases, and state securities commission decisions. We will have a trial of corporation law treatises during spring quarter 2005.
Louis Loss & Joel Seligman, Treatise on Securities Regulation
The definitive treatise on all aspects of securities law including background of the SEC statutes, federal regulation of the distribution of securities, coverage of the Securities Act of 1933, registration and post registration provisions of the 1934 Act, regulation of the securities markets, brokers, dealers, and investment advisers, the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 and SEC functions under the Bankruptcy code, fraud, manipulation, civil liability, government litigation, SEC administrative law, conflict of laws, procedural aspects, and globalization.
XXKF1439.L69 1988 Law Library Reserve; also on Lexis
Hugh L. Sowards (ed.), The Federal Securities Act of 1933.
The Federal Securities Act of 1933 contains full coverage of the Securities Act of 1933: The organization of the SEC; Definition of security and sale; Exempted securities and transactions, small issue exemptions, restricted and control securities; The registration process, registration forms, registration of investment company securities, the Trust Indenture Act of 1939; Civil liabilities, SEC and criminal enforcement.
XXKF1436.5.F42 1965; also on Lexis
Edward N. Gadsby (ed.), The Federal Securities Exchange Act of 1934.
The Federal Securities Exchange Act of 1934 is a comprehensive treatise on the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. Coverage includes: The organization of the SEC; 1934 Act registration and reporting requirements, Integrated Disclosure, proxy rules and proxy contests, insider trading and short-swing trading; Registration and regulation of securities markets, broker-dealers, transfer agents, clearing agencies; SEC enforcement actions, private civil liabilities.
XXKF1436.5.A16F54 1967; also on Lexis

Clark Boardman Securities Law Series (Westlaw database SECSERIES)

Fletcher Cyclopedia of Corporations.
William Meade Fletcher, Fletcher Cyclopedia of the Law of Private Corporations. West Group, 35 vols. With annual updates. (Westlaw database FLETCHER-CYC)
XXKF1384.F55 Law Library Stacks
Zolman Cavitch (ed.), Business organizations with tax planning..
Matthew Bender, 1975-. Looseleaf; available on Lexis.
XXKF1366.C3 D'Angelo Law Stacks
Jonathan R. Macey, Macey on corporation laws : model business corporation act, Delaware general corporation law, ALI principles of corporate governance.
Aspen Law & Business, 1998-. (2 vols., looseleaf).
XXKF1414.M33 1998 Law Reserve
Model Business Corporation Act Annotated (4th ed.)
American Bar Association Section of Business Law, 2008)
KXXKF1404.52.A652 2008 Law Reserve
Folk on the Delaware General Corporation Law
Rodman Ward, Jr., Edward P. Welch, & Andrew J. Turezyn (eds.), Folk on the Delaware General Corporation Law, 4th ed .Aspen Law & Business, c1999- . (3 vols., looseleaf)
XXKFD213.F593 1998 D'Angelo Law Reserve & Stacks
BNA Corporate Practice Library
The BNA Corporate Practice Portfolios, covering antitrust law, corporate political activity, forms of business, labor and employment , corporate and securities law, environment, and intellectual property.

Mergers & Acquisitions

Lexis/Nexis

Mergers and Acquisitions Reports - Company Reports
Contains all company reports relating to mergers and acquisitions. Includes IDD Information Services database (coverage from 1984, not updated after January 15, 1993); and the Mergerstat M&A Database (coverage from January 1996 to present).

Westlaw

M&A Filings (Westlaw database M&A-D)
Abstracts prepared by Charles E. Simon & Co. from SEC filings:

For Further Information

Business & Economics Resource Center
www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/busecon/

Links to business news sources, current and historical stock quotes, company financial , and e-journals in business and economics. Some of these services are not available on Lexis/Nexis or Westlaw, e.g., stock quotes or Moody's financial reports, or offer data in more useful formats, e.g., charts in PDF format, tables in Excel spreadsheet format, Bloomberg streaming video.

 

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