Why Extraordinary Events Matter

Unpredictable: These events occur without warning, making proactive tracking essential.

Non-Recurring : Unlike operational business cycles, extraordinary events do not follow patterns.

High Impact: When they happen, they can significantly alter a company’s or industry’s trajectory.

Whether you’re operating in private or public markets, tracking extraordinary events that impact publicly listed U.S. corporations is essential for:

• Company Comparables & Benchmarking: such as understanding how similar firms react to non-operating events
• Investor Memorandums, Due Diligence & Disclosures: such as identifying and disclosing material risks and exposures, and modelling scenarios.
• Historical Evaluations: such as assessing longer-term impact and scenario analysis
• Risk Assessments: such as factoring in external shocks for decision-making.
• Investment & Budgeting Decisions: such as factoring in external shocks for decision-making and planning, and evaluating event-driven market movements.
• Origination & Research: such as identifying trends and opportunities before they gain widespread attention, or complementing research workflows.

Examples of Extraordinary Events

1. Regulatory & Legislative Actions

• New Legislation & Draft Laws: Introduction of new tax laws, consumer protection regulations, or financial industry reforms that require businesses to adjust their operations.
• Regulatory Enforcement & Penalties: Cease-and-desist orders, civil money penalties, regulatory sanctions, prohibition orders, or removal orders imposed by government agencies.
• Antitrust & Market Manipulation Cases: Investigations into monopolistic behaviour, collusion, price-fixing, or market manipulation.
• Corporate Governance & Compliance Failures: Enforcement actions due to internal control weaknesses, material misstatements, or violations of financial reporting standards.
• Consumer Protection Violations: Penalties for misleading advertising, unfair business practices, or product safety failures.
• Government Subsidies, Bailouts & Nationalization: State interventions such as corporate bailouts, loan restructuring, implicit or explicity government guarantees, or outright nationalization of assets.
• Tax Disputes & Settlements: Government-initiated tax evasion cases, unexpected tax settlements, or changes in corporate tax rates impacting profitability.

2. Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A) and Corporate Restructuring

• Mergers & Acquisitions: Takeovers, joint ventures, or consolidations that alter competitive dynamics.
• Corporate Restructuring & Reorganizations: Asset sales, spin-offs, divestitures, and business unit consolidations.
• Bankruptcy & Liquidation: Chapter 7 and Chapter 11 filings, receivership, or forced asset liquidation due to financial distress.

3. Litigation & Legal Disputes

• Class Action & Shareholder Lawsuits: Claims against corporations for securities fraud, labour disputes, or product liabilities.
• Contractual Disputes & Breach of Agreements: Settlements and court rulings over contract violations, intellectual property disputes, or supplier conflicts.
• White-Collar Crimes: Fraud, insider trading, money laundering, or corporate misconduct cases leading to fines or criminal penalties.
• Intellectual Property Theft & Patent Disputes: Cases involving trade secret leaks, copyright violations, or patent infringement.

4. Operational & Technological Disruptions

• Cyber Attacks & Data Breaches: Successful ransomware attacks, hacking incidents, or unauthorized access.
• Supply Chain Disruptions: Shortages, bottlenecks, or transportation failures.
• Product Recalls & Safety Issues: Faulty or dangerous products being pulled from markets.

5. Force Majeure & Environmental Events

• Pandemics & Health Crises: Outbreaks leading to operational shutdowns, regulatory restrictions, drastic fall in economic activity, or workforce and product shortages.
• Disasters: Hurricanes, earthquakes, wildfires, or extreme weather causing asset damage and operational disruptions.
• Geopolitical Conflicts & Trade Sanctions: Wars, embargoes, economic sanctions, or political instability affecting business continuity.

Why Traditional Solutions Fall Short

Current data providers, AI models, and direct paid and free data sources fail to offer a comprehensive, efficient, and cost-effective solution for tracking extraordinary events:

• General AI models lack domain expertise, missing non-operating business events and failing to integrate with fragmented data sources.
• Premium data platforms charge prohibitive fees and still require manual workflows or coding for API integration for full event tracking.
• Existing datasets relevant to extraordinary events at premium data platforms are incomplete and limited in scope.
• Requirements to code and integrate APIs (where available) makes it inaccessible for a non-technical user.
• Manually searching and retrieving data is time-consuming, as most fragmented sources lack APIs altogether, requiring users to navigate complex search engines, register for multiple platforms, and comb through raw data manually.
• Dedicate hours or days to data extraction because filtering relevant information from regulatory filings, court records, financial reports, public disclosures, news sources, and press releases is an exhaustive process.