Thomson Reuters Westlaw

What it does

Westlaw is one of two premier legal research databases (alongside LexisNexis). This tool provides access to Westlaw's research content via the Thomson Reuters API when the tenant has a Westlaw subscription configured. It excels at US federal and state case law, UK case law, and offers the Practical Law practice guides — the most comprehensive drafting and transaction support resource for common-law practitioners.

For MENA legal practice, Westlaw is most useful for:

• English common-law analysis applicable to DIFC and ADGM
• BVI, Cayman Islands, and Channel Islands company law (offshore holding structures)
• English and Welsh case law (when English law is the governing law of a MENA contract)
• US securities law research for US-listed MENA subsidiaries

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