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Recent Legal Technology & Legal Services M&A Activity
July 31, 2020. Mitratech Acquires Tracker Corp
Mitratech, a provider of legal and compliance software, today announced its acquisition of Tracker Corp. a provider of SaaS I-9, E-Verify, and immigration management solutions. The acquisition will equip Mitratech to help organizations overcome the challenges of increased government scrutiny, remote workforces, inefficient immigration management, and painful and costly manual staffing processes. Tracker Corp, located in San Francisco, CA, was founded in 2002 by Julie Pearl and Fred Colman with the vision of providing automated solutions for immigration law firms and corporations that handled a tremendous volume of immigration cases…
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August 5, 2020. Xact Data Discovery Acquires RVM Enterprises
Xact Data Discovery (XDD), a provider of legal services, eDiscovery, data management and managed review services for law firms and corporations, announces the acquisition of Anexsys Group Limited, an eDiscovery services company based in London, UK…
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August 11, 2020. Reveal Acquires NexLP (Story Engine)
Reveal announced today the acquisition of NexLP, the leading artificial intelligence software in the legal industry. With the acquisition, Reveal becomes the market-leader in AI-powered, end-to-end eDiscovery. The acquisition of NexLP marks a significant step forward for the eDiscovery industry, positioning Reveal as a next-generation market leader with the first software to include best-in-class review, artificial intelligence and processing in an all-inclusive solution that achieves better outcomes and discovery insights faster…
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August 13, 2020. Thomson Reuters Acquires CaseLines
Thomson Reuters announced that it has acquired CaseLines, a leading cloud-based court document and evidence management platform. The CaseLines platform facilitates users, such as governments, judges, courts and legal practitioners to ensure that this essential service to courts and the justice system is technically available anywhere to those who need it. CaseLines enables the legal community to securely manage, organize, share and present evidence between the courts and legal teams both remotely and in person. CaseLines digitizes court processes by essentially eliminating paper and creating digital court files managed on one common platform…
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August 19, 2020. Software Growth Partners Acquires A Majority Interest In Venio Systems
Venio Systems, an eDiscovery software company, announced a majority investment from Software Growth Partners (SGP) to accelerate the growth of its VenioOne platform. VenioOne is an end-to-end eDiscovery litigation review platform that offers both on-premises or cloud deployments…
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August 24, 2020. iManage Acquires Closing Folders
Document management and governance software provider iManage announced that it has acquired legal transaction management platform Closing Folders Inc. to automate, manage and analyze the entire dealmaking documentation process…
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September 2, 2020. Innovative Discovery Acquires Integro
Innovative Discovery, a litigation support and legal services service provider for law firms, corporations, and government agencies acquired Integro, a provider of information governance and content services solutions. Innovative Discovery and Integro will work as one team offering end-to-end services, solutions, and consultation to their clients. Innovative Discovery was founded in 2005 and has a team of lawyers, technologists, forensics professionals, and cybersecurity experts…
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September 8, 2020. Ayfie Group Acquires Haive
Ayfie, a provider of legal technology search and text analytics software solutions, has entered into a purchase agreement of all shares in Haive. Haive, based in Oslo, is developing site search and knowledge discovery solutions targeted at Norwegian public and private entities…
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September, 29, 2020. Mitratech Acquires Acuity ELM
Mitratech, a global provider of legal and compliance software, acquired Acuity ELM, a provider of SaaS e-Billing, matter management, claims defense, and legal hold products to small and mid-size corporate legal teams. With this acquisition, Mitratech will be able to offer a complementary range of enterprise legal management solutions to suit the needs of legal and claims departments of any size, including small and mid-sized ones…
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October 13, 2020. Wilson Allen Acquires Capensys
Wilson Allen, provider of software, services, and expertise that help law firms and professional services organizations enhance business performance, announced today that it has acquired Capensys, a leading provider of software training services and technology. The addition of Capensys’ training solutions will extend Wilson Allen’s ability to help firms accelerate user adoption of technology, streamline change management, and rigorously enforce information security practices…
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November 10, 2020. Smarsh Acquires Digital Reasoning
Smarsh, an archiving and compliance provider, announced the acquisition of Digital Reasoning, a provider of natural language processing (NLP), artificial intelligence (AI), and machine learning (ML). The transaction brings together Smarsh’s digital communications content capture, archiving, supervision and e-discovery, with Digital Reasoning’s AI/ML powered analytics. The combined company will enable customers to spot risks before they happen, maximize the scalability of supervision teams, and uncover strategic insights from large volumes of data in real-time…
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November 12, 2020. Epiq Acquires Hyperion Global Partners
Epiq, a global legal services company, announced today that it is has acquired Hyperion Global Partners, a business and technology advisory practice for legal operations and transformation. The acquisition expands Epiq’s strategy to deliver a suite of legal business management services and solutions to corporate in-house law departments, law firms and other clients. The Hyperion acquisition includes its legal operations advisory practice as well as Hyperion Research, the analyst-driven unit of Hyperion Global Partners focused on legal solutions market intelligence…
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December 1, 2020. TCDI Acquires Cicayda
TCDI, a provider of legal services, legal technology, software and cybersecurity, today announced its acquisition of Cicayda LLC. The deal expands TCDI’s existing capabilities in eDiscovery, cybersecurity, and managed document review, adding Cicayda’s proprietary software to the TCDI technology suite. TCDI will integrate Cicayda’s software, iDiscovery®, into its own proprietary technology and services, including augmenting its eDiscovery platform, CVLynx®, with legal hold automation capabilities developed by Cicayda. TCDI will also expand its existing cybersecurity toolkit with Cicayda’s social media collections tool, Novara, which recently won the Viewer’s Choice Award at the 2020 Clio Conference…
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December 3, 2020. Exterro Acquires AccessData
Exterro Inc., a provider of legal governance, risk and compliance software and eDiscovery, Data Privacy and Cybersecurity Compliance technology, announced today it has acquired AccessData, one of the industry’s leading provider of digital forensic investigation technology. The acquisition furthers Exterro’s ability to help manage legal governance, risk and compliance. By combining forces with AccessData, Exterro can now provide companies, government agencies, law enforcement, law firms and legal service providers with an integrated platform…
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About Arbor Ridge Partners, LLC.
Arbor Ridge Partners is a business broker that focuses on mergers and acquisitions for Legal Technology and Legal Services companies; including, litigation support, computer forensics, eDiscovery, legal services, and software companies. With over 40+ years of combined industry experience, legal backgrounds, first-hand industry M&A experience, and deep relationships, we can help maximize value in the purchase and sale of Legal Technology and Legal Services Businesses. For additional information, please visit www.arborridgepartners.com or call 800-226-2760.