Legal Screening Report
SESAMm's Legal Screening Report gives legal and compliance teams a comprehensive view of a company's litigation, regulatory, and reputational exposure. Generated automatically in minutes, each report is backed by verifiable source references so you can move quickly without sacrificing rigor.
The report covers the full picture: corporate structure, legal and regulatory risks, sanctions exposure, reputational issues, compliance documentation, and industry context. It is designed for private equity transactions, including deal screening, red-flag reviews, and pre-close diligence.
Why Use the Legal Screening Report
- Faster deal screening and red-flag reviews: get a structured litigation and compliance overview in minutes, not days
- Detection of hidden risks: surface litigation, sanctions exposure, and compliance gaps that do not appear in standard financial data or management presentations
- Support for client memos: every finding is backed by verifiable, AI-extracted source references, making outputs ready for internal records or client-facing materials
- Reduced manual research costs: replace time-intensive searches across court databases, regulatory registries, and press archives with a single automated report
- Consistent methodology: apply the same framework across every deal so risk assessments are comparable, not dependent on individual analyst judgment
Requesting Your Report
Requesting a Legal Screening Report takes just a minute.
Step 1: Enter your email address
Enter your email address.
Step 2: Enter the company name
Enter the official name of the company you want to assess. Use the publicly recognized name.
Step 3: Provide additional context
Add context to help identify the right entity. The company website URL is the most reliable option. A short description also works if a URL is not available.
That’s it! Your report will be sent to your inbox shortly after submission.
What's Included
Each Legal Screening Report is structured into seven sections. Every finding links back to source documents so your team can verify and trace any flag.
| Section | What it covers |
|---|---|
| Overall Assessment | An executive summary of all findings: a narrative summary of the company’s risk profile, plus a breakdown of key risks and material findings across company risks (legal & regulatory, sanctions & jurisdictions, reputational), compliance posture, and industry & regulatory risk. The fastest way to get the full picture in under two minutes. |
| Corporate Profile and Structure | Entity overview covering business activities, industry and sector peers, key products and services, subsidiaries and projects, geographic footprint, ownership structure and key stakeholders, corporate form and organization, board composition and independence, management team background, and recent corporate legal developments. |
| Legal and Regulatory Risks | Litigation and disputes, regulatory enforcement and investigations, and IP-related disputes. Tracks caseloads, penalties, legal posture, and disclosure practices, drawing on court records, regulator databases, and IP registries. |
| Sanctions, High-Risk Jurisdictions and Exclusions | Sanctions designations, watchlist matches, frameworks and norms screening (including UNGC, OECD Guidelines, UN PRI, and Equator Principles), known investor exclusions, state-owned enterprise links, and high-risk jurisdiction exposure — broken out by confirmed exposure versus no evidence found. |
| Reputational Risk | Broad exposure across financial crime and corruption, leadership accountability, financial distress, tax risk, human and labor rights, workplace and operational safety, civil unrest, product incidents, supply chain risks, environmental and climate issues, natural disasters, and data privacy and cybersecurity. |
| Compliance Posture and Documentation | Review of publicly available governance documents, sustainability and ethics reports, ESG disclosures, people and human rights policies, and supply chain and trade compliance standards — flagging whether each exists as a standalone document, is embedded in another document, or could not be found. |
| Industry and Regulatory Risk | Industry-level view of peer controversies, sector-wide trends, and current or upcoming regulations with broad market impact. Entity-specific enforcement is covered in other sections. |
Methodology
SESAMm's AI processes billions of documents from global sources, including news outlets, public records, NGO reports, and forums. Sources are updated daily and analyzed by large language models to extract company and market insights, with quality checks applied to source reliability.
The report identifies material legal exposures while assessing compliance effectiveness, mapping litigation, investigations, and sanctions issues against each company's documented governance controls, policies, and remediation measures.
Legal and Regulatory Risk
Tracks litigation and disputes, regulatory enforcement and investigations, and IP-related litigation. Monitors caseloads, posture, and penalties while reviewing governance controls, legal holds, counsel management, and disclosure practices against regulations and peer benchmarks.
Sanctions and High-Risk Jurisdictions
Maps exposure across sanctions programs, watchlists, controversial activities, and high-risk jurisdictions. Confirms applicable restrictions and reviews risk assessment procedures, screening processes, supply chain filters, escalation protocols, and documentation against sanctions standards.
Reputational Risk
Identifies exposures across cyber and privacy risks, product safety, supply chain issues, financial crime, leadership accountability, and ESG topics. Assesses supporting systems including policies, monitoring mechanisms, grievance channels, crisis communications, and remediation measures.
Compliance Posture
Evaluates publicly available governance and compliance materials across board relations, public reporting, ethics policies, ESG disclosures, and trade compliance. Assesses scope, ownership, update frequency, and operational integration of controls.
Industry and Regulatory Risk
Provides an industry-level perspective on peer controversies, negative trends, and current or upcoming regulations likely to have a broad impact. Entity-specific enforcement actions are covered in other sections of the report.
Report Format
The report is delivered as a PDF to the email address you provide when requesting. Each section includes a risk assessment, a plain-language summary of findings, and direct links to source documents. The report closes with a full reference list, a methodology page, and a regulatory notice clarifying that it is an AI-generated internal screening tool not a published rating or a regulatory compliance opinion.