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America’s Corporate Finance Directory more than 4,500 public and private U.S. companies with revenue income or pension assets in excess of $100 million per year; includes U.S. subsidiaries of non-U.S.

corporations

Canadian Business Directory

1.5 million Canadian companies

CanCorp Plus

14,000 Canadian companies; comprehensive source for information on more than 8,000 publicly-traded and selected private companies

Company Intelligence—International combined directory and company news file with address, financial, and marketing information for approximately

127,000 U.S. and 137,000 non-U.S. companies

Company Intelligence—U.S.

combined directory and company news file with address, financial, and marketing information for approximately

141,000 U.S. private and public companies

Creditreform (GNB) profiles 750,000 German and Austrian companies

D&B Global Duns Market Identifiers expansion to more than 200 countries

Directory of Corporate Affiliations ™ profile and corporate linkage information for more than

186,000 public and private companies (including more than 63,500 parent companies and 122,500 subsidiary companies worldwide)

Disclosure ® Online Database—U.S. Public Company Profiles business and financial information extracted from SEC reports for more than 10,000 publicly owned companies with at least 500 shareholders of one class of stock and at least $5 million in assets that have filed a 10-K or 20-F in the past 18 months

EDGARPlus ® Database includes the following forms:

• Annual Reports to Shareholders • Form 10-K

• Exhibit 10. Material Contracts

• Williams Act Filings

• Executive Compensation

• Form 10-Q

• Form 20-F

• Proxy Statements

The Executive Directories combines biographical information on directors and executives of major corporations from these sources:

• Financial Post Directory of Directors

• ICC Directors

• Market Guide Executives

• Standard & Poor’s Corporation Register of Directors & Executives

• Who’s Who In European Business

• Who’s Who in International Banking—Biographies

Extel Cards Database financial and background data, news, and announcements from approximately 20,000 companies worldwide

FBR Asian Company Profiles provides key financial and marketing information for more than 45,000 European and 9,000 Asian companies

Hoover’s Company Capsules more than 22,000 major U.S. companies are covered including key competitors

Hoover’s Company Profiles more than 4,000 major public and private companies worldwide

Hoppenstedt Company Database offers exclusive business data to almost 150,000 important business enterprises. Besides the prominent large and medium-sized companies, the data pool contains detailed profiles of banks (headquarters and branches) trade associations, as well as the most important public institutions.

ICC Financial Analysis Reports comprehensive analysis on all UK companies with limited liability from all sectors of industry and commerce

ICC Full-Text Quoted Company Annual

Reports—International Company Profiles complete text of the annual reports and accounts published by 2,800 British companies listed on the London

Stock Exchange and the top 500 European companies

INVESTEXT ® Database company, industry, geographical, and topical reports from the world’s leading investment banks and research firms

Mergerstat ® M&A Database information on publicly announced mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures; covers U.S. transactions and cross border transactions involving a U.S. parent company where the equity value is greater than $1 million and represents at least a 10 percent interest

Nelson’s Company Research Reports

“master index” of nearly every research report published worldwide by more than 700 investment banks, brokers, and independent research firms 200,000 reports covering

14,000+ public companies

Nelson’s Public Company Profiles brief descriptions of more than 14,000 publicly traded corporations worldwide

Pinnacor Stock Quotes and Charts active stock quotes and customized stock charts

SEC Filings

Form 144 and Form 4 (other filings available through the

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Standard & Poor’s Corporate D e scriptions Plus News

Standard & Poor’s Register of Corporations authoritative source of in-depth information on publicly held corporations

U.S. Business Directory approximately 10 million records on public and private

U.S. businesses

Vickers Securities Report institutional and insider holdings data

Worldscope International Company Profiles international database containing financial profiles, fundamental analysis, and stock performance data for more than 28,000 companies

Zacks Investment Research, Inc.

Consensus Earnings Projections consensus forecasts generated from estimates of corporate earnings

Mealey’s Newsletters court documents, summaries of cases, news articles, and commentaries

Most Recent Year Federal and State Cases federal and state case law decided in the previous 12 months

Trademarks access to company brands and trademarks

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INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY INFORMATION

Combined Federal & State Trademarks federal and state trademarks and trade names from all 50 states and Puerto Rico

U.S. Copyrights Combined Files consists of all three types of copyright documents: monographs, legal documents, and serials

Patents full text of utility, design, plant patents as well as reissue patents, reexamination certificates, statutory invention registrations (SIR), and defensive publications

NEWS INFORMATION

News Group File, Most Recent Two Years full-text news stories from more than 6,000 global publications

Today’s News Sources same-day, full-text news stories from more than 85 publications and selected, full-text documents from a handful of other publications

LEGAL INFORMATION

Commonwealth & Irish Cases, Combined full-text cases from the Republic of Ireland and the British

Commonwealth, including Australia, Canada, England,

Northern Ireland, New Zealand, and Scotland

CourtLink ® strategic litigation profiles on companies indicating pending litigation, litigation patterns, and docket information

Martindale-Hubbell ® Law Directory inside/outside counsel information on corporations

American Statistics Index—Economic Census Reports abstract-index records provide title, bibliographic, and subject information, as well as an abstract to the contents of each statistical publication from U.S. government agencies, congressional committees, judicial offices, special councils, commissions, and boards

Bill Tracking Report—Current Congress track federal legislation affecting an industry from its introduction through the hearing process, to mark up, to floor vote, to signature by the President

Congressional Full Text Bills—Current Congress full text of all bills and resolutions introduced in the current

Congress; track sponsorship, changes to the original version, and impacts to business or area of law

Datamonitor market information and analysis for six select markets. Information on competitors, historical data and forcasting on 10,000 companies and 50 countries.

Disclosure ® Online Database–

U.S Public Company Profiles business and financial information extracted from SEC reports for more than 10,000 publicaly owned companies with at lea s t 500 shareholders of one class of stock and at least $5 milliion in assets that have filed a 10-K and 20-F in the past 18 months.

Integra Industry Reports more than 900 industries representing almost 4 million businesses, with aggregates from 13 separate sales ranges within each industry

Mergerstat ® M&A Database information on publicaly announced mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures; covers U.S. transactions and cross border transactions involving a U.S. parent company where the equity value value is greater than $1 million and represents at least a 10 percent interest.

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