With international focus on risk management at an all time high, navigating your way through the highly complex and fast-changing legal and regulatory minefield of shareholding disclosure has never been more challenging.

Focusing on our client's practical needs, Rulefinder is an online legal risk management resource available online 24/7 which covers the rules and practice relating to international shareholding disclosure. Rulefinder has been designed in close collaboration with six leading global financial institutions and is a cost effective, practical tool designed for use by compliance and operations personnel as well as being highly beneficial to legal departments.

Subscribers gain unlimited access to a service of unparalleled quality comprising, for each jurisdiction covered, a rigorously negotiated memoranda of law from the leading local counsel overlaid by a market-leading report structure compiled by our dedicated and experienced legal team. Content (updated on a regular basis) covers:

• Substantial shareholdings
• Short-selling
• Sensitive industries
• Takeovers
• Issuer requests

The standardisation of analysis (presented in a highly user-friendly format) guides the decision as to whether a transaction entered into will trigger a disclosure requirement in a given jurisdiction and helps the structuring of transactions involving equities. Coverage includes all jurisdictional regions (EMEA, Asia-Pacific and Americas) with more than 45 jurisdictions now live and with an aggressive expansion timetable. Live jurisdictions include Canada, China, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Italy, Japan, Russia, The UAE, USA, UK and other key EU Member states.

Summary benefits:

• Market leading on-screen traffic-light format instantly shows the disclosure position
• Information underpinned by detailed and rigorously negotiated legal memoranda with links to underlying legislation
• Unrivalled level of detail and quality
• Direct access to disclosure forms and practical guidance notes on how to complete and file the form
• Yearly fixed fee with unlimited usage
• Contact details of the leading legal counsel in each jurisdiction
• Alerts service informing a subscriber of changes in regulation in the areas monitored by the service
• Regular and thorough updating by senior legal team
• Dedicated legal and technical team at hand supporting the service content

To subscribe or for more information please contact your Allen & Overy relationship contact. If you do not know who your contact is, or you are a new client, please email us.