Bob Ranck Joins Arbor Ridge Partners

Arbor Ridge Partners is pleased to announce that Bob Ranck has joined our Leadership Team as an M&A Advisor. Bob Ranck has over ten years of experience in mergers and acquisitions, providing deal sourcing and origination services in the Records and Information Management (RIM) industry. His experience includes VP, M&A Development with 2-20 Records Management, a middle market private equity portfolio company that was successfully sold in 2022, and M&A with Iron Mountain, where he had business acquisition responsibility for the Western U.S. and Canada. Prior to M&A, Bob spent 20 years in business development and consulting in the Legal… Read more »


Industry Round Up | October 2022

Industry News Follow Us On LinkedIn Relativity Fest. Arbor Ridge Partners will be in Chicago the week of October 24th for Relativity Fest. If you are interested in learning more about the current state of Legal Technology & Legal Services M&A, please email [email protected] or use the following form to schedule a confidential and free consultation with Arbor Ridge Partners before, during, or after the conference. Recent Legal Technology & Legal Services M&A Activity August 25, 2022. OpenText to Acquire Micro Focus International Open Text announced that it has reached agreement to acquire Micro Focus. Micro Focus is one of… Read more »


Industry Round-up | August, 2022

Industry News Follow Us On LinkedIn ILTA. Arbor Ridge Partners will be in Washington DC the week of August 22nd for the ILTA Conference. If you are interested in learning more about the current state of Legal Technology & Legal Services M&A, please email [email protected] or use the following form to schedule a confidential and free consultation with Arbor Ridge Partners before, during, or after the conference. Recent Legal Technology & Legal Services M&A Activity May 9, 2022. LexisNexis Announces Acquisition of Parley Pro NEW YORK – LexisNexis a provider of information and analytics, today announced the acquisition of Parley… Read more »


Industry Round-up | May, 2022

Industry News Follow Us On LinkedIn Recent Legal Technology & Legal Services M&A Activity February 17, 2022. Paradigm Acquires TrustBooks Paradigm announces the acquisition of a cloud-based accounting solution tailor-made for lawyers, TrustBooks. Launched in 2015, TrustBooks was created to simplify the legal trust accounting process for non-accountants and empower attorneys to handle their books while staying compliant with their state bar. TrustBooks’ easy-to-use platform provides users the ability to complete their trust and operating accounting needs, all in one place… Read More February 24, 2022. DISCO Acquires Congruity 360’s Legal Hold, Request Automation Tools Legal technology company, DISCO, today… Read more »


Industry Round-up | February, 2022

Industry News Follow Us On LinkedIn Industry News New York Legal Tech Arbor Ridge Partners will be in New York the week of March 7th for Legal Week. If you are interested in learning more about the current state of Legal Technology & Legal Services M&A, please email [email protected] or use the following form to schedule a confidential and free consultation with Arbor Ridge Partners before, during, or after the conference. Recent Legal Technology & Legal Services M&A Activity October 7, 2021. iCONECT Acquires Ayfie Inspector Artificial Intelligence Codebase Gold Copy iCONECT Worldwide Inc., a privately-held leader in legal technology… Read more »


Industry Round-up | November, 2021

Industry News Follow Us On LinkedIn Recent Legal Technology & Legal Services M&A Activity August 2, 2021. Cobra Acquires Digital Discovery Cobra Legal Solutions, a legal support services company, has acquired digital forensics and data collection company, Digital Discovery. Based in Dallas, the team at Digital Discovery adds upstream evidence collection, forensic investigations, and cyber incident response capabilities to further augment Cobra’s eDiscovery and data breach services.…Read More August 10. 2021. Litera Agrees to Acquire Kira Systems Litera, a legal technology solutions company, announced that it has agreed to acquire Kira Systems (“Kira”), a contract review and analysis software company.… Read more »


GREG MAZARES JOINS ARBOR RIDGE PARTNERS

Arbor Ridge Partners is pleased to announce that Greg Mazares has joined our Leadership Team as an M&A Advisor. Greg Mazares has over 40 years of experience as a senior executive for public and private corporations in consumer goods, financial services, and litigation support services. He has spent the past 33 years as a senior leader of litigation services and legal technology companies. His experience includes serving as EVP of M&A for KLDiscovery Inc. Previously, he was president & CEO at Encore Discovery Solutions and president of sales at Discovia, where he led the growth of both companies prior to… Read more »


Arbor Ridge Partners advises ESI Analyst on its Sale to CloudNine

September 7, 2021: Arbor Ridge Partners, the leading M&A advisory firm for the Legal Technology and Legal Services industry, is pleased to announce that our client, ESI Analyst, has been acquired by CloudNine – a leading provider of legal technology. ESI Analyst is a standout amongst eDiscovery investigation tools, allowing forensic investigators, legal teams and experts to tell the entire case story by combining multiple sources of digital evidence in a single platform. ESI Analyst set the standard for modern file types such as mobile, chat, social media, text, computer activity, and financial data. The integration of these two platforms… Read more »


Industry Round-up | August 10, 2021

Industry News ILTA Conference. Arbor Ridge Partners will be in Las Vegas the week of August 23rd for the ILTA Conference. If you are interested in learning about the current state of Legal Technology & Legal Services M&A, please email [email protected] or use the following form to schedule a confidential and free consultation with Arbor Ridge Partners before, during, or after the conference. Follow Us On LinkedIn Recent Legal Technology & Legal Services M&A Activity May 5, 2021. Gimmal acquires Sherpa Software Gimmal LLC, a provider of information governance software solutions, has announced that Sherpa Software, LLC, a Pittsburgh-based enterprise… Read more »


Industry Round-up | May 18, 2021

Industry News COVID-19 Update. The Legal Technology & Legal Services M&A landscape has changed since the COVID-19 pandemic broke out. If you are thinking about buying or selling a legal technology or legal services business, or simply interested in learning about the current state of Legal Technology & Legal Services M&A, please email [email protected] or use the following form to schedule a confidential and free consultation with Arbor Ridge Partners. – Follow Us on LinkedIn Recent Legal Technology & Legal Services M&A Activity March 2, 2021. HBR Consulting Acquires Keno Kozie HBR Consulting LLC, an advisor to law firms and… Read more »