Knowledge Services

Concise reports on prospective and existing clients containing key business, strategic and legal information, including trends, developments and incisive comments on current and future direction.

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• Overview of the Banking Sector
  Comprehensive reports on a select sector or industry as defined by industry/ vertical classification, providing the reader with information and updates about the market, consumer profiles, technologies, regulations, legal activities and competitor play.
• Company Research
  This section provides a quick overview of the company (prospect), its geographical presence, share performance (if listed), recent developments, and key personnel. It will examine and discuss the prospect’s business offerings, segmental performance and SWOT analysis. The prospect's business, operational and growth strategy is discussed, with recent initiatives, if any. Also, the section details the prospect's financial performance, in comparison with peers and past performances along with our view on its financial position.
• Legal Research
  This section profiles activities of the prospect company from a legal perspective. Detailed information on litigations involved, primary legal advisors and analysis of key areas for legal support, to assess potential opportunities for law firms with the prospect. The section also delves into the prospect’s IP strategy including current IP portfolio, key IP acquisitions and significant IP litigations.

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Comprehensive reports on a select sector or industry as defined by industry/ vertical classification, providing the reader with information and updates about the market, consumer profiles, technologies, regulations, legal activities and competitor play.

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• Introduction to the Global Pharmaceutical Market
  This section provides a snapshot of the pharmaceutical market - its size and structure as well as the leading players and products. It also allows a peek into game changing factors in the industry.
• Business Landscape of the Pharmaceutical Sector
  This section examines the extent of market concentration (HHI) and its impact on supply and demand and consumers. Market trends, challenges, opportunities, factors that drive growth and market segments are detailed to determine outlook for the industry. Porter's five forces environmental model to shape strategy outlines business dynamics.
• Legal landscape of the Pharmaceutical Sector
  This section covers details on litigations including yearly number of cases filed, trends in the nature of suits, typical legal spend and litigation challenges faced in the sector. Studies on overall IP growth trend, strategies for managing IP worldwide and significant IP litigations in the industry. It includes a quick profile of leading law firms based on clients, geographical footprints, number of deals, strategic initiatives, and list of key lawyers for the sector under study.
• Key Players
  This section includes profiles of top industry players based on strategic, competitive, financial and legal parameters. This helps law firms with background research on key players and their main legal advisors, including litigation history of individual companies and significant legal and regulatory issues surrounding them.

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Information about industry competition including competitor's strategic moves, performances and plans along with recent deals, partner moves, inaugurals, awards and recognitions and other developments concerning select law firms are included in this offering.

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• Firm Profile
  This section provides an overview of the firm including its history, size, presence and performance. It also provides a quick benchmarking of the firm with peers to help make a relative assessment of its positioning in the industry.
• Deal Activity
  Deal activity lists engagements the law firm has been a part of. These activities advice on mergers and acquisitions, business sell-offs', capital market activities, project finance, dispute resolution, and litigations and arbitration.
• Strategic Orientation
  This section captures strategic initiatives undertaken by the firm. Strategy for a law firm is primarily built around people - defined by position, location, skill sets and capabilities. Elevating lawyers to partners as it has huge financial implications and can signal future focus. Strategy also considers location - capturing new markets, identifying new opportunities and developing new capabilities. Strategy built around new markets or new businesses through partnerships and alliances or through mergers and acquisitions, strategy around profit sharing, recruitment, and training are also discussed.
• Awards & Recognitions
  Awards and recognitions reflect the achievements of a firm over a period. This section captures the accolades won by the firm and its partners. Further, it provides an analysis of the inherent strengths of the firm and its star partners.

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Law firms may have specific issues with strategy implications ranging from business opportunities in a particular geography to entry strategies in a market. We help counter such challenges through our custom research support.

We are present in different geographies and enjoy the associated advantage of foreign language support. Infosys marks its presence in 29 countries spanning all continents. Our global presence presents operational advantage especially with foreign language jurisdictions. Infosys is positioned to use internal resources to translate required information into English in a short span of time.

Infosys domain expertise accumulated over the years from various service industries and offerings are leveraged for legal research services across industries including:

• Banking and Capital Markets
• Communications, Media and Entertainment
• Energy, Utilities and Services
• Insurance, Healthcare and Life Sciences
• Manufacturing
• New Markets and Services
• Retail, CPG and Logistics

Our diverse pool of talent enables analysis of complex legal issues across the board to help understand difficult issues quickly. This helps channel energy into gathering relevant information from different online resources and databases, and compile/ draft research findings in a logical manner to meet client requirements.

Infosys blends legal research and technology to provide quality products with cutting-edge technology. Infosys provides a strong foundation for a focused business model and successfully harvests existing technologies for research and analysis.

Infosys has a strong technological advantage which differentiates it from other firms. We have developed tools/ utilities to help create standardized research methodologies that enhance efficiency of legal research services:

• Creation of research management tools with capabilities of regular alerts and auto-updation of latest information from secure public sources
• Accurate data capture leading to increased productivity and auto generated reports
• Creation of different reporting mechanisms for all processes including SLAs
• Creation of tools/ utilities to:
  • Reduce FTEs/ manual efforts
  • Accurate results with reduced chance for errors

We provide tailored research and systematic support to help clients make informed and timely business decisions. Our deep domain expertise enables customization of solutions as per client requirements.

Developed internal tools and other reporting mechanisms to monitor day-to-day operations. We have continuously benchmarked processes against world-class standards and models such as ISO 9001-TickIT, SEI-CMM/ CMMI, ISO 20000, ISO 27000, AS 9100, TL 9000, and ISO 14001. Ensured best-in-class processes through meticulous documentation, active supervision and rigorous accuracy monitoring through real-time metrics. Our BPO experience allows us to put processes in place to monitor quality and productivity of our employees which helps develop appropriate training programs based on these inputs.