Legal Tech M&A
HotDocs Owner AbacusNext Buys Zola Suite As M&A Continues
AbacusNext, the legal tech conglomerate and owner of HotDocs, has acquired Zola Suite, a practice management platform, in what is the second notable M&A deal …
Legal Tech M&A
Legal Tech M&A
Litera Strikes Again And Acquires Objective Manager
Rapidly expanding legal tech platform Litera has acquired UK-based Objective Manager (OM), a strategic planning and performance system for the legal market currently led by …
Legal Tech M&A
DocuSign To Acquire Clause, the Smart Contract Pioneer
As predicted by Artificial Lawyer, DocuSign is to acquire smart contract pioneer Clause. The deal will see DocuSign gain Clause’s IP, with its team, led …
Legal Tech M&A
Relativity Buys Text IQ to Boost NLP Capabilities
Relativity, the eDiscovery and compliance pioneer, has bought New York-based Text IQ, a company that has developed a strong capability in natural language processing (NLP) and what it calls Socio-Linguistic Hypergraphs. (See Relativity’s in-depth responses to Artificial Lawyer’s questions below.) …
Legal Tech M&A
SmashDocs Group Joins Japanese Giant Toppan
The group which owns collaborative doc editing platform, SmashDocs, has become part of the massive Japanese conglomerate, Toppan. Germany-based smartwork solutions GmbH, which was created …
Legal Tech M&A
‘Right People, Right Data, Right Time’ – Litera Buys Clocktimizer
Litera, the fast-growing legal tech platform backed by Hg Capital, has signed an agreement to acquire Dutch legal billing analysis system, Clocktimizer. The machine learning …
Legal Tech M&A
Opus 2 Buys Bar Squared in Major ‘Barrister Tech’ Move
Opus 2, the pioneer of cloud-based collaboration software for disputes, has acquired Bar Squared, the leading provider of management software for barristers’ chambers, in what …
Legal Tech M&A
Haley Altman on the Litera/Foundation Software Deal + What Comes Next
At the start of the year, fast-expanding legal tech platform, Litera, bought Foundation Software, a company focused on capturing and sharing operational data about legal …
Legal Tech M&A
Exterro Buys AccessData in $100m-plus Deal, As Consolidation Continues
Legal governance, risk & compliance (GRC) company Exterro has bought AccessData for a reported ‘nine-figure sum’, i.e. $100 million-plus. The digital forensics investigation company will …
Legal Tech M&A
As Predicted, Litera’s Owner, Hg, Has Bought Septeo
As Artificial Lawyer wrote in October, Hg – the owner of Litera – has made a major investment in international legal tech and legal sector …