Since beginning to track the number of publicly highlighted merger, acquisition, and investment (M&A+I) events in the eDiscovery ecosystem, ComplexDiscovery has recorded 419 M&A+I events between November 2001 and today.

While not all-inclusive due to the fact that M&A+I events are not always publicly disclosed and some announcements are intent-based and not the actual completion of an event, the abridged listing of M&A+I events maintained by ComplexDiscovery notes key industry events by sharing event date, company involvement, and event amount (if known).

Based on an aggregate review of the abridged listing through the lens of Q1 2020, the following findings, data points, and tracking charts may be useful for understanding M&A+I activity patterns in the eDiscovery ecosystem from January 1, 2020, through March 29, 2020.

Five Key Findings

  • There have been at least nine M&A+I events in the eDiscovery ecosystem during Q1 2020. (Chart 1)
  • January was the most active month in Q1 2020 for M&A+I events with at least five total events.  (Charts 1 and 2)
  • February and March were the least active months in Q1 2020 for M&A+I events with two known events in each month. (Charts 1 and 2)
  • The investment pulse rate for the three months of Q1 2020 appears to be significantly lower than the Q1 investment pulse rate in 2019. (Chart 2)
  • Q1 2020 investment pulse rate appears to be the second-lowest Q1 investment pulse rate in the last five years. (Chart 2)

M&A+I Data Points

Activity By Month (Q1 2020)

  • January – 5
  • February – 2
  • March – 2

Activity By Month (Q1 2019)

  • January – 11
  • February – 3
  • March –  1

M&A+I Tracking Charts

(Charts Can Be Expanded for Detailed Viewing)

Chart #1: An Overview of Merger, Acquisition, and Investment Events by Calendar Month (2020)

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Chart #2: 2015-2020 Merger, Acquisition, or Investment Events vs. Month

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Chart #3: Merger, Acquisition, or Investment Events vs. Month (November 2001 Through March 2020)

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Chart #4: Merger, Acquisition, or Investment Events vs. Year

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M&A+I Events (Running Listing: November 2001 – Today)

eDiscovery Mergers, Acquisitions, and Investments

Event Date Acquired (Investee) Acquirer (Investor) Amount (Estimated $)
10-Mar-20 Everlaw (Investee) Series C Funding (CapitalG, Menlo Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, K9 Ventures) $62,000,000
9-Mar-20 XMedius OpenText $75,000,000
25-Feb-20 TCDI (Investee) Trivest Partners, LP (Investor)
3-Feb-20 HaystackID (Investee) Quad-C Management (Recapitalization)
29-Jan-20 Mindcrest DWF (Law Firm) $18,500,000
14-Jan-20 BlackBag Technologies Cellebrite $33,000,000
10-Jan-20 RP Digital Security Kroll (A Division of Duff & Phelps)
8-Jan-20 Superior Document Services, Inc. KLDiscovery
7-Jan-20 Inventus Legility
24-Dec-19 Carbonite OpenText $1.45 Billion
20-Dec-19 KLDiscovery (Merger) Pivotal Acquisition Corporation (Merger)
25-Nov-19 ObserveIT Proofpoint $225,000,000
20-Nov-19 Active Navigation (Investee) Series A Funding (Mobeus) $11,000,000
1-Nov-19 Nexem Legal (Data Management and Managed Review Services) Veristar LLC
11-Oct-19 Navigant Consulting, Inc. Guidehouse $1.1 Billion
2-Oct-19 X1 (Investee) Series B Funding (Palisades Growth Capital) $5,100,000
5-Sep-19 Suppla’s Business Process Outsourcing Unit (Columbia) Iron Mountain
4-Sep-19 Beyond IT Forensics Xact Data Discovery
15-Aug-19 ayfie (Investee) Second Funding Round (Initial Funding Round June 2017) $10,000,000
8-Aug-19 iCONECT (Investee) NewField Capital Partners (Investor)
1-Aug-19 iControlESI Legility
1-Aug-19 E-Connect Software, Inc. Sonasoft Corp
29-Jul-19 Compiled KLDiscovery
29-Jul-19 Strategic Legal Solutions KLDiscovery
18-Jul-19 HighQ Thomson Reuters
8-Jul-19 Driven, Inc. (Investee) Capital Southwest Corporation in Recapitalization (Investor)
2-Jul-19 QDiscovery Xact Data Discovery
19-Jun-19 Text IQ (Investee) FirstMark Capital with Sierra Ventures (Investors) $12,600,000
17-Jun-19 Elevate (Investee) Kayne Partners (Investor) $25,000,000
17-Jun-19 Cellebrite (Investee) Israel Growth Partners (IGP) $110,000,000
12-Jun-19 Infinnium (Investee) Sahajanand Group (Investor)
11-Jun-19 Jordan Lawrence Exterro
5-Jun-19 Mindseye Solutions Reveal Data
3-Jun-19 Thomson Reuters Pangea3 (Managed Services) EY
1-May-19 Phoenix Business Solutions Morae Global Corporation
1-May-19 Lighthouse Lightyear Capital LLC
25-Apr-19 Hotify, Inc. Sonasoft Corp
16-April-19 SaGo.ai, Inc. Congruity360
3-Apr-19 H&A Discovery Epiq
21-Mar-19 Epiq U.S. Court Reporting Business (Divestiture) Veritext Legal Solutions
11-Feb-19 Propulse Video TransPerfect
11-Feb-19 QUiVX eDiscovery Xact Data Discovery
7-Feb-19 Luminance (Investee) Invoke Capital, Talis Capital, and Slaughter and May (Investors) $10,000,000
31-Jan-19 Catalyst Repository Systems OpenText $75,000,000
25-Jan-19 Cognatio Law Elevate
24-Jan-19 DISCO (Investee) Georgian Partners, Bessemer Venture Partners, LiveOak Venture Partner, The Stephens Group, Comerica (Investors) $83,000,000
21-Jan-19 Yerra Solutions Elevate
17-Jan-19 Nighthawk Business Process Services EXTEND Resources
17-Jan-19 HaystackID (Investee) Knox Capital, ORIX Mezzanine & Private Equity, Maranon Capital, Baird Principal Group, Signet LLC (Investors)
17-Jan-19 eTERA Consulting HaystackID
14-Jan-19 Kelly Legal Managed Services (KLMS) Trustpoint.One
14-Jan-19 Omnivere Driven Inc.
8-Jan-19 Halebury Elevate
7-Jan-19 Garretson Resolution Group Epiq
5-Dec-18 Sumati Elevate
5-Dec-18 Esquify Xact Data Discovery
4-Dec-18 Concept Searching Netwrix
27-Nov-18 Evidox QDiscovery
14-Nov-18 LexPredict Elevate
7-Nov-18 LegalComet Rajah & Tan Technologies
30-Oct-18 DiscoverReady Consilio (GI Partners)
19-Oct-18 Confluent Translations Trustpoint.One
16-Oct-18 Alderson Court Reporting Trustpoint.One
1-Oct-18 Modus (Investee) CapStar Bank (Investor)
20-Sep-18 United Lex (Investee) CVC Capital Partners (Investor)
10-Sep-18 Ringtail eDiscovery Software Business (From FTI Consulting) Nuix $55,000,000
20-Aug-18 Copy Source One, LTD iNSERViO3
15-Aug-18 Wolfinger Forensics (Merger) Everest Technologies (Merger)
13-Aug-18 Innovative Discovery (Investee) Silver Oak Services Partners (Investor)
7-Aug-18 Riverview Law (Managed Services) EY
9-July-18 Controle LLC Epiq
28-Jun-18 Everlaw (Investee) Menlo Ventures and Andreessen Horowitz (Investors) $25,000.000
25-Jun-18 Navigant (Disputes, Forensics, and Legal Technology Segment (DFLT) and Transaction Advisory Services (TAS)) Ankura (Madison Dearborn Partners) (Closed August 27, 2018) $470,000,000
18-Jun-18 Garden City Group Epiq $42,000,000
13-Jun-18 Summit Scanning Partners Everest Technologies
5-Jun-18 CloudRanger Druva
31-May-18 Soliton Systems (eDiscovery Business) Epiq
23-May-18 Exterro (Investment) Leeds Equity Partners (Investor) >$100,000,000
1-May-18 Cornerstone Technologies Sonasoft Corporation
1-May-18 RPX Corporation (Inventus) HGGC (Closing Expected in 2Q or 3Q 2018) $555,000,000
24-Apr-18 Envision Discovery HaystackID
24-Apr-18 Inspired Review HaystackID
24-Apr-18 HaystackID (Haystack Holdings – Investee) Knox Capital, ORIX Mezzanine & Private Equity, Maranon Capital (Investors)
17-Apr-18 Consilio (Advanced Discovery) GI Partners
10-Apr-18 TotalDiscovery Catalyst
3-Apr-18 Erado Zix Corporation
29-Mar-18 Forexus Lighthouse
26-Mar-18 LexisNexis eDiscovery Product Suite CloudNine
26-Mar-18 CloudNine (Investee) Peak Rock Captial (Investor)
21-Mar-18 Advanced Discovery GI Partners
13-Mar-18 Kroll (Corporate Risk Holdings) Duff & Phelps
21-Feb-18 Clearwater Legal CertaTech Solutions
14-Feb-18 Hightail (File Sharing) OpenText $20,000,000
30-Jan-18 CS Disco (Investment) Bessemer Venture Partners, LiveOak Venture Partners, The Stephens Group (Investors) $20,000,000
29-Jan-18 Update Legal Driven Inc.
29-Jan-18 Logikcull (Investment) New Enterprise Associates (“NEA”), OpenView Venture Partners, Storm Ventures (Investors) $25,000,000
29-Jan-18 KLDiscovery (Investment) WestView Capital Partners, The Carlyle Group, Revolution Growth (Investors)
8-Jan-18 Decipher Forensics (Merger) Eide Bailly LLP (Merger)
4-Jan-18 Cornerstone Technologies Sonasoft (Letter of Intent to Acquire)
2-Jan-18 Xact Data Discovery JLL Partners
18-Dec-17 Heretik (Investment) Relativity, Chicago Ventures, Corazon Capital (Investors) $2,400,000
12-Dec-17 U.S. Legal Support (eDiscovery and Computer Forensics Division) Business Intelligence Associates (BIA)
5-Dec-17 HAYSTACK ID LLC (Investee) TCF Capital Funding (Support Of Knox Capital Holdings and Maranon Capital) in Recapitalization (Investor) $17.800,000
30-Nov-17 E-STET EY
28-Nov-17 Allegory Integreon
31-Oct-17 Avalon Document Services (Merger) C:Dox (Merger)
23-Oct-17 NexLP (Investment) Method Capital and Dundee Venture Capital (Investors) $3,000,000
23-Oct-17 HAYSTACKID LLC (Investee) Knox Capital (Investor)
3-Oct-17 NuLegal DTI
2-Oct-17 The Oliver Group RVM
6-Sep-17 DSicovery, LLC Counsel on Call
1-Aug-17 inData Ipro
26-Jul-17 Guidance Software OpenText $240,000,000
25-Jul-17 Heureka Software (Investee) NCT Ventures, Bridge Investments, JumpStart Inc.
(Investors)
$1,800,000
12-Jul-17 Esquify (Investment) Network Ventures, Foley Ventures, and Bridge Investments (Investors) $710,000
21-Jun-17 KNJ (Merger) Congruity360 (Merger)
17-May-17 Altep, Inc. Advanced Discovery
17-May-17 Discovia (Merger) Lighthouse eDiscovery (Merger)
16-May-17 Zapproved (Investment) Vista Equity Partners (Investor)
2-May-17 Morae Legal (Merger) New Entity Called Morae Global Corporation Clutch Group (Merger)
26 – Apr – 17 Ipro (Investment) ParkerGale Capital (Investor)
29-Mar-17 Valora Technologies (Investment) DTI (Investor)
21-Mar-17 CS Disco (Investment) Comerica Bank (Debt Refinancing and Expansion)
26 – Jan 17 Secure Discovery Reveal Data
4-Dec-16 Key Discovery (eDiscovery Practice) BDO USA (BDO Consulting)
10-Nov-16 Scarab Consulting Franklin Data
7-Nov-16 Essential Discovery, Inc. FRONTEO
4-Nov-16 Brainspace BC Partners, Medina Capital (Agreement to Acquire) $95,000,000
1-Nov-16 Stroz Friedberg Aon Risk Solutions
21-Oct-16 Kroll Ontrack LDiscovery LLC $410,000,000
11-Oct-16 Brainspace (Investment) In-Q-Tel, Inc (Investor)
4-Oct-16 D4 LLC Adecco Group
30-Sep-16 Epiq Systems (Merger) DTI (Merger)
29-Sep-16 Druva (Investment) Sequoia Capital, Blue Cloud Ventures, Hercules Capital, NTT Finance, Nexus Venture Partners, Tenaya Capital (Investors) $51,000,000
8-Sep-16 EQD Consilio
1-Sep-16 Integreon NewQuest Capital Partners
23-Aug-16 Logikcull (Investment) OpenView Ventures, Storm Ventures (Investors) $10,000,000
22-Aug-16 Avalon Documents Services (Merger) Southeastern Document Services (Merger)
3-Aug-16 Lighthouse eDiscovery (Investee) CIT Bank North America (Line of Credit) $23,000,000
2-Aug-16 CS Disco (Investment) The Stephens Group, Bessemer Venture Partners, LiveOak Venture Partners (Investors) $18,575,000
27-Jul-16 Epiq Systems OMERS Private Equity And Harvest Partners (Agreement) $1,000,000,000
20-Jul-16 Recommind OpenText $163,000,000
13-Jul-16 iCONECT (Investment) Fraser Mackenzie Merchant Capital (Investor)
9-Jun-16 Forensicon QDiscovery
19-May-16 Jurinnov Ltd. TCDI
11-May-16 Adept STS, Limited DTI
10-May-16 Omega Discovery, LLC Skyline Discovery Consulting
5-May-16 Elite Document Solutions LDiscovery LLC
2-May-16 Recall Iron Mountain $2,000,000,000
25-Apr-16 F1 Discovery Xact Data Discovery
14-Apr-16 Gotham Digital Science Stroz Friedberg
14-Mar-16 Content Analyst kCura
10-Mar-16 Archyvu Systems Iron Mountain
2-Mar-16 Landmark Legal Solutions D4 LLC
20-Jan-16 Kiersted Systems OmniVere LLC
19-Jan-16 Orange Legal Technologies Xact Data Discovery
19-Jan-16 Review Less LLC Inspired Review LLC
14-Jan-16 Everlaw (Investment) Andreessen Horowitz (Investor) $8,100,000
7-Jan-16 Millnet Advanced Discovery
6-Jan-16 LDiscovery LLC Carlyle Group, Revolution Growth $150,000,000
5-Jan-16 Legal Placements, Inc. Advanced Discovery
31-Dec-15 Huron Legal (Divestiture from Huron Consulting Group) Consilio $134,000,000
15-Dec-15 Inventus Solutions, Inc. RPX Corporation $232,000,000
2-Dec-15 Proven Legal Technologies Consilio
23-Nov-15 Daegis OpenText $13,500,000
12-Oct-15 Ditto Document Services (eDiscovery Division) Advanced Discovery
6-Oct-15 eDepoze (Investee) Nova Partners, LLC (Investor) $2,800,000
16-Sep-15 Kennett Group TRU Staffing Partners
16-Sep-15 Backstop Consilio
1-Sep-15 OmniVere (Investee) Gibraltar Business Capital (Line of Credit)
24-Aug-15 CaseTrack (EAG) Mitratech
24-Aug-15 Copy Secure LDiscovery LLC
11-Aug-15 Credence Corporation LDiscovery LLC
11-Aug-15 Veritas (From Symantec) Carlyle Group $8,000,000
6-Aug-15 Elysium Digital Stroz Friedberg
3-Aug-15 Consilio (Investment) Shamrock Capital Advisors (Investor)
3-Aug-15 EvD, Inc. (Evolve Discovery) UBIC, Inc.
21-Jul-15 iManage (LBO From HP) iManage
8-Jul-15 Heureka Software (Investee) Franklin Data (Investment)
7-Jul-15 Bridgeway Software Mitratech
1-Jul-15 VE Discovery Franklin Data
1-Jul-15 Rittman Mead India Huron Consulting Group
23-Jun-15 Kooby, LLP Inventus Solutions, Inc.
22-Jun-15 NRC Inc. Myriad Technologies
12-Jun-15 FLEX Discovery HAYSTACKID
1-Jun-15 Merrill Corporation (Legal Solutions Group) DTI
14-May-15 Resolution1 Security (AccessData Group) Fidelis Cybersecurity
13-May-15 Actiance (Investment) Golub Capital (Investor) $28,000,000
4-May-15 Iris Data Services Epiq Systems $134,000,000
30-Mar-15 Lightbox Technologies Stroz Friedberg
26-Mar-15 Unified OS Ltd. Inventus, LLC
24-Mar-15 Kofax Lexmark $1,000,000,000
24-Mar-15 Logikcull (Investment) Storm Ventures, Private (Investors) $4,000,000
16-Mar-15 Platinum Legal Group PwC Canada
12-Feb-15 Lighthouse eDiscovery (Investee) Spire Capital (Investor) $30,000,000
3-Feb-15 kCura (Investment) Iconiq Capital (Investor) $125,000,000
2-Feb-15 Zapproved (Investment) K1 Investment Management (Investor) $15,000,000
20-Jan-15 Equivio Microsoft $200,000,000
14-Jan-15 Xact Data Discovery Clearview Capital
6-Jan-15 Decisiv Email (From Recommind) NetDocuments
5-Jan-15 Informative Graphics Corporation (IGC) OpenText
31-Dec-14 Image Engine (Investment) BeyondRecognition (Investor)
22-Dec-14 Turnstone Solutions LDiscovery LLC
20-Nov-14 CS Disco (Investment) Bessemer Venture Partners, LiveOak Venture Partners, Private Investors $10,000,000
17-Nov-14 RenewData (Merger) (Investment) LDiscovery LLC (Merger) (Investor) $40,000,000
10-Nov-14 Hudson Global, Inc. (eDiscovery Assets) DTI $23,000,000
3-Nov-14 Evidence Exchange AlixPartners
17-Oct-14 Strategic Document Solutions D4 LLC
16-Oct-14 TrialGraphix Resonant Legal Media
16-Oct-14 Falcon Discovery DTI
9-Oct-14 Discovery Services LLC eTERA Consulting
8-Oct-14 Flash Data Solutions LDiscovery LLC
7-Oct-14 Responsive Data Solutions Advanced Discovery
2-Oct-14 Fontis International Iron Mountain
24-Sep-14 Rand Secure Data (Zovy) Alta Equity Partners
17-Sep-14 DW Legal (Investment) BeyondRecognition (Investor)
28-Aug-14 TechLaw Solutions UBIC, Inc. $8,400,000
19-Aug-14 DTI (Recapitalization) OMERS Private Equity
16-Aug-14 Druva Series D Funding (Sequoia Capital, Nexus Venture Partners,Tenaya Capital) $25,000,000
16-Aug-14 Advanced Discovery (Investment) Trivest Partners
8-Aug-14 C2C Systems Barracuda Networks
16-Jun-14 Clarity Litigation Support LLC Iris Data Services
12-Jun-14 DiscoverReady (Chapter 11 Reorg/Investment) Bayside Capital
11-Jun-14 Commonwealth Legal Ricoh Canada
9-Jun-14 TeamConnect Legal Hold (Kiersted) Mitratech
27-May-14 C:DOX (Investment) Xact Data Discovery
12-May-14 AccessData Litigation Support Services (LSS) OmniVere LLC $18,000,000
7-May-14 Califorensics Capital Digital Document Solutions
7-May-14 PartnerJD TrustPoint International
18-Apr-14 Smart Data Consulting Xerox
11-Feb-14 Cicayda (Investment) Private $2,200,000
31-Jan-14 Cicayda (Investment) Private $3,800,000
20-Jan-14 ATD Legal Services Professional Corporation Deloitte
16-Jan-14 Applied Discovery DTI
15-Jan-14 CS Disco (Investment) Live Oak Venture Partners $2,000,000
14-Jan-14 LT Online Mitratech
13-Nov-13 DataClues Precision Discovery, Inc.
24-Oct-13 TERIS (Washington and California Offices) Inventus Solutions
15-Oct-13 Schiefelbein Analytics LLC TechLaw Solutions
18-Sep-13 Recommind Series C Funding (SAP Ventures) $15,000,000
12-Sep-13 PureDiscovery Series C Funding (Medina Capital) $9,000,000
28-Aug-13 H5 Series A Funding $395,000
14-Aug-13 LDiscovery LLC (Merger) AlphaLit (Merger)
21-Jun-13 PLA-Litigation Solutions Group D4 LLC
20-Jun-13 In Demand Document Services, LLC (IDDS) Xact Data Discovery
20-Jun-13 Inventus, LLC Clearlake Capital Group, L.P.
11-Jun-13 Modus eDiscovery (Investment) Harbert Management Corporation and Azalea Capital (Investment) $10,000,000
16-May-13 UBIC Inc. (Investment) Initial Public Offering-NASDAQ (Investment) $104,500,000
4-Apr-13 Taylor Woodings FTI Consulting
18-Mar-13 Altep, Inc. (Merger) eLitigation Solutions (Merger)
15-Mar-13 AccessData (Investment) Sorensen Capital $20,000,000
15-Mar-13 AccessData (Investment) Silicon Valley Bank $20,000,000
14-Mar-13 Wolters Kluwer (25% Minority Interest in AccessData) AccessData
6-Mar-13 Resonate KT OpenText
4-Mar-13 eDirect Impact LLC (Merger) Elijah Ltd. (Merger)
19-Feb-13 First to File CPA Global (Cinven)
6-Feb-13 Preferred Imaging Quantum Discovery
9-Jan-13 Everlaw (Investment) Ulu Ventures, K9 Ventures, Monumental Venture Partners $850,000
19-Dec-12 StoredIQ IBM
29-Nov-12 Fios, Inc. DTI
28-Nov-12 IdeaPlan Ltd. Workshare (SkyDox Ltd.)
1-Nov-12 Peritia Data Discovery Elite Document Technology
19-Oct-12 Flash Discovery Xact Data Discovery
9-Oct-12 iEnvision Technology Duff & Phelps
5-Oct-12 Digital Reef TransPerfect
18-Sep-12 Providus DTI
17-Sep-12 Arkovi Backups RegEd
13-Sep-12 Market Counsel (MailBanc Messaging Unit) Global Relay
11-Sep-12 Workshare SkyDox Ltd.
6-Aug-12 StoredIQ (Investment) Private (12 Investors)
2-Aug-12 On Target Litigation Solutions D4, LLC
1-Aug-12 K&B Document Technologies XACT Data Discovery
19-Jul-12 OrcaTec (Investment) Private
2-Jul-12 Lateral Data Xerox $30,000,000
26-Jun-12 AdamsGrayson Huron Consulting Group $31,500,000
25-Jun-12 IE Discovery Deloitte Financial Services
13-Jun-12 Black Letter Discovery Trustpoint International
13-Jun-12 Data Forte Document Technologies, Inc.
12-Jun-12 Ascertus Huron Consulting Group
6-Jun-12 Landmark Legal Solutions Flex Discovery
4-Jun-12 Sanction Solutions LexisNexis
29-May-12 Sight, Sound & Selection SuperiorGlacier
23-May-12 Intelligent Discovery Management (IDM) SuperiorGlacier
16-May-12 Equivalent Data (Investment) Trinity Hunt
15-May-12 N-Tier Discovery RVM Enterprises, Inc.
10-May-12 Excelerate (Merger) TrustPoint International (Merger)
1 – May – 12 RenewData (Investment) ABS Capital Partners, CIBC (Investor)
1-May-12 EasyLink OpenText $310,000,000
18-Apr-12 Omega Legal Technologies Aderant
10-Apr-12 Catalyst Repository Systems (Investment) FTV Capital $37,000,000
6-Apr-12 CRG TransPerfect Legal Solutions
28-Mar-12 Ediscover-e RVM
22-Mar-12 Lighthouse eDiscovery (Investee) Union Bay Capital (Investor) $3,000,000
20-Mar-12 DLR Legal First Advantage Litigation Consulting
19-Mar-12 ISYS Search Lexmark $35,000,000
19-Mar-12 Nolij Lexmark $35,000,000
15-Mar-12 Detroit Legal Imaging D4, LLC
14-Mar-12 Caselawg Navigant
13-Mar-12 Applied Technology Group LLC Aderant
6-Mar-12 Ivize (Merger) Modus, LLC
6-Mar-12 Modus, LLC Azalea Capital
13-Feb-12 Aptara iEnergizer Limited
7-Feb-12 CaseCentral Guidance Software $17,100,000
20-Jan-12 NextPage ProofPoint
18-Jan-12 CPA Global Cinven $1,450,000,000
16-Jan-12 LiveOffice Symantec $115,000,000
6-Jan-12 Applied Discovery Sirus Capital $95,000,000
28-Dec-11 De Novo Legal Epiq Systems
2-Dec-11 Document Technologies, Inc. (Recapitalization) Harvest Partners
26-Oct-11 e-Docuplus Flex Discovery
12-Oct-11 RiverGlass Allen Systems Group (ASG) $68,000,000
30-Sep-11 LDiscovery (Recapitalization) Westview Capital Parters
8-Sep-11 Firefly Dataworks iControl ESI
1-Sep-11 CP Document Technologies Advanced Discovery Services
1-Sep-11 Bridge City Legal DTI
18-Aug-11 Autonomy HP $11,700,000,000
25-Jul-11 ACT Litigation Services DiscoverReady $65,000,000
19-Jul-11 Ignited Discovery Navigant
25-Jun-11 United Lex (Investment) Sequoia Capital, Helion Venture Partners, Canaan Partners $17,000,000
9-Jun-11 eDiscovery Forensics McCann Investigations
7-Jun-11 Prodiance Microsoft
31-May-11 Cataphora E&Y
19-May-11 Clearwell Systems Symantec $390,000,000
17-May-11 Nuix (Investment) Maquarie Capital Group
16-May-11 Iron Mountain Autonomy $380,000,000
4-Apr-11 Encore Discovery Solutions Epic Systems $100,000,000
1-Apr-11 LECG Legal Technology Practice Huron Consulting Group
22-Mar-11 Vertica Systems HP
15-Feb-11 Everlaw (Investment) K9 Ventures $655,000
31-Jan-11 iFramework Wave Software
23-Dec-10 First Advantage Symphony Technology Group $265,000,000
18-Dec-10 Pangea3 Thomson Reuters
7-Dec-10 Unlimited Discovery Group DTI
6-Dec-10 Capitol Discovery Services Iris Data Services
4-Nov-10 Trilantic International Huron Consulting Group
13-Oct-10 PSS Systems IBM $65,000,000
5-Oct-10 Serengeti Law Thomson Reuters
30-Sep-10 Stroz Friedberg (Investment) New Mountain Capital Group $115,000,000
20-Sep-10 Daticon EED DTI
13-Jul-10 CaseLogistix Thomson Reuters
29-Jun-10 Daegis Unify Corporation $37,500,000
9-Jun-10 CA (Information Governance) Autonomy
7-Jun-10 Kroll Altegrity $1,130,000,000
10-May-10 Tableau LLC Guidance Software $12,300,000
9-May-10 CT Summation AccessData
4-May-10 American Data Services Advanced Discovery Services
26-Apr-10 Inference Data DOAR Litigation Consulting
22-Feb-10 Mimosa Systems Iron Mountain $112,000,000
14-Jan-10 Array Technology Group LLC U.S. Legal Support
6-Nov-09 DiscoverReady Dolan Media
1-Oct-09 Anacomp (France) Techtrek Limited
1-Sep-09 Kazeon Systems EMC
1-Aug-09 Digital Mandate RenewData
5-May-09 InBoxer Safecore
16-Apr-09 AXS-One Unify Corporation $8,000,000
5-Apr-09 Anacomp (UK) Formscan
24-Feb-09 LuciData, Inc. Juritek.net LTD
10-Feb-09 Black Letter Discovery Callidus Holdings (Milestone Partners)
5-Feb-09 ONSITE3 Integreon
22-Jan-09 Interwoven Autonomy $775,000,000
5-Jan-09 Orchestria CA
5-Jan-09 Focus Solutions Continuum Worldwide
17-Nov-08 MessageLabs Symantec
29-Aug-08 Access Litigation Edmond Scientific
27-Jul-08 Lexalytics, Inc. Infonic
24-Jul-08 Discovery Mining Interwoven
8-Jul-08 Daticon Electronic Evidence Discovery
24-Jun-08 Fortiva Proofpoint
10-Jun-08 Attenex (Merger) FTI Consulting $88,000,000
3-Jun-08 Datum Legal Integreon
2-Jun-08 Midnight Run Orange Legal Technologies
25-Apr-08 Message One Dell
31-Mar-08 Tower Software HP
7-Mar-08 Docuity Stroz Friedberg
14-Jan-08 Barrasso Consulting Deloitte
12-Feb-08 Lighthouse Global Technologies Atempo
12-Feb-08 Estorian TeraCloud
6-Dec-07 MetaLINCS Seagate Technology
3-Dec-07 Vontu Symantec $350,000,000
31-Oct-07 Stratify Iron Mountain $158,000,000
18-Sep-07 TrialGraphix Kroll Ontrack
3-Jul-07 ZANTAZ Autonomy $375,000,000
25-Jun-07 Accutrac Software, Inc. Iron Mountain
18-Jun-07 Intralinks (Investment) TA Associates (Investor)
6-Jun-07 Image Capture Engineering, Inc. Lexis Nexis
1-Jun-07 DolphinSearch Xiotech
31-May-07 Syngence Private Investment Group
30-May-07 CaseLogistix Anacomp
1-Mar-07 Lextranet Merrill Corporation
20-Nov-06 Engenium Kroll Ontrack
6-Oct-06 CaseData Oce Business Services
28-Sep-06 LiveNote Thomson
18-Sep-06 Whitmont Legal Technologies Techbooks
10-Aug-06 FileNet IBM $1,600,000,000
1-Aug-06 Document Review Consulting Services Huron Consulting Group
1-Aug-06 Aaxis Technologies Huron Consulting Group
24-Jul-06 Dataflight LexisNexis
24-Jul-06 CaseSoft LexisNexis
12-Jul-06 D-M Information Systems Esquire Litigation Solutons
9-Jul-06 MDY Group CA
14-Jun-06 Amici Xerox $174,000,000
25-May-06 SPI Tech ePLDT
4-Apr-06 Ibis Consulting Pitney Bowes $67,000,000
31-Jan-06 Ibas Kroll Ontrack $45,000,000
24-Jan-06 Bowne Integreon
18-Jan-06 Daticon Xiotech
17-Nov-05 nMatrix Epiq Systems $125,000,000
17-Oct-05 Ilumin CA
1-Jul-05 RealLegal Litigation Technology Division LiveNote, Inc.
10-Jun-05 Niku Computer Associates $350,000,000
23-Feb-05 Ringtail Solutions Group FTI Consulting $35,000,000
16-Dec-04 VERITAS Software Symantec $13,500,000
1-Dec-04 Summation Legal Technologies Wolters Kluwer
18-May-04 Kroll Marsh & McLennan
24-Feb-04 KVS VERITAS Software $225,000,000
1-Nov-03 Lex Solutio (Phoenix) Frontenac (Chicago) $23,000,000
11-Jul-03 Applied Discovery LexisNexis $95,000,000
2-Apr-02 ONTRACK Data International Kroll $121,000,000
5-Nov-01 CourtLink LexisNexis

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