Editor’s Note: ComplexDiscovery’s tracker in 2026 has recorded 16 publicly announced eDiscovery mergers, acquisitions and investments through Oct. 29, 2026, and the second half has changed the year’s character. Repario, the JLL Partners-backed eDiscovery and legal data company, acquired UnitedLex, an alternative legal services provider reporting over 2,000 professionals. Control Risks said it will spin off its Discovery + Data Insights and Forensics lines into a standalone company backed by a Beringer Capital investment, a transaction announced Oct. 15 and expected to close in the fourth quarter. Epiq added Canopy, a data breach response software company, its third deal of the year, while Elevate’s Lupl purchase and Mitratech’s BotDojo purchase kept AI software in the mix. The pace trails 2025, which had logged 19 events by the same date, and annualizes to roughly 19, a mechanical rate rather than a forecast.

For cybersecurity, privacy, compliance and eDiscovery professionals, consolidation at this scale moves contracts, hosting and service teams: change-of-control and data portability terms deserve review before renewal, and cross-border clients of the Control Risks businesses should track jurisdiction-by-jurisdiction closings.

Watch next for the spin-off’s expected completion and for whether year-end announcements carry 2026 toward its predecessors’ totals. The tracker, whose earliest entry turns 25 on Nov. 5, now documents 625 events.

Disclosure: ComplexDiscovery OÜ founder and publisher Rob Robinson serves as chief marketing officer of HaystackID, one of the companies discussed in this analysis.


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Reset, shift or maturation: what 2026’s 16 eDiscovery deals suggest so far

ComplexDiscovery Staff

The midyear question was which niche would draw the next bid. The autumn answered with something bigger than a niche. eDiscovery dealmakers announced 16 mergers, acquisitions and investments through Oct. 29, 2026, trailing the 19 recorded by the same date in 2025, according to ComplexDiscovery tracking data.

The pace firmed in the second half. Annualized, the 16-deal count points toward roughly 19 transactions for the year, up from the 17-deal run rate the tracker showed in July and within reach of the 21 deals recorded in each of 2025 and 2022. That figure remains a mechanical run rate rather than a forecast; announcements do not arrive evenly through the year, and 2026 has already produced two zero-deal months, in April and May.

The tracker behind those counts uses a broad market definition. It records publicly announced transactions involving organizations that offer eDiscovery capabilities somewhere within their software or services portfolios, whether or not discovery is the primary business, and it is not exhaustive because some transactions are never publicly disclosed. Event dates reflect public announcements except where the tracker records an effective date. Two entries, Elevate’s purchase of Lupl and Mitratech’s purchase of BotDojo, were added to the tracker during prepublication review. Here is what the late summer and autumn added to the ledger.



Seven deals since the July update

August ended the summer lull. Elevate announced its acquisition of Lupl, an AI-native legal matter management platform, on Aug. 19, pushing the company deeper into software. September then delivered the year’s busiest month, with four announcements. Consilio announced its acquisition of icourts, an Australian eDiscovery specialist, on Sept. 1, extending its Asia-Pacific footprint. Epiq followed on Sept. 25 with Canopy, a data breach response software company whose AI-assisted review platform is set to be integrated into Epiq’s cyber incident response offerings. That capability carries direct relevance for privacy and information governance teams that manage breach notification. The month closed with two announcements on Sept. 28. Mitratech, a legal and compliance software provider, acquired BotDojo, an AI-native startup. Repario, the eDiscovery and legal data company backed by JLL Partners, acquired UnitedLex, the alternative legal services provider that reports over 2,000 legal and business professionals, data analysts, technologists and engineers across operational centers worldwide.

October kept the rhythm. Lineal acquired Forentec, a Swiss eDiscovery and digital forensics consultancy, on Oct. 14, its second tracker entry in about 14 months, following ProFile Discovery in August 2025. One day later came the announcement that tests the midyear outlook most directly: Control Risks said it will spin off two business lines, Discovery + Data Insights and Forensics, into a new standalone company backed by a Beringer Capital investment. Control Risks says it will keep a meaningful equity stake in the business. That transaction is announced, not closed: the companies expect it to complete in the fourth quarter, subject to customary conditions, with closings proceeding jurisdiction by jurisdiction.

David Moran, chief executive of Repario, said in his company’s acquisition announcement that there have been concerns that using AI in legal work means giving up control of data, visibility into the process and confidence that results will hold up. He said the combined company aims to move clients to case strategy sooner, with AI they can defend. Renee Meisel, chief executive of UnitedLex, said the deal speeds the company’s ability to put its existing AI investment to work and deepens its talent, and said the combination preserves the continuity and service quality clients expect.


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Autumn broadens the announced mix

The late-summer and autumn additions landed in a year that, at midyear, read as two themes. AI capability purchases paired Relativity with Gavel, HaystackID with eDiscovery AI and Epiq with LitLingo, while legal talent additions joined Purpose Legal with Hire Counsel, Elevate with Mestel & Co. and Epiq with Tenor Legal. Both themes still stand. What changed is what joined them.

The new mix kept the AI thread running through the Lupl and BotDojo purchases, then added services consolidation at platform scale, cyber response software, cross-border forensics reach and, in the Control Risks announcement, a private-equity-backed carve-out. The July analysis in these pages had said that, if the year-to-date pattern persisted, additional AI and talent purchases might be likelier than a large platform combination, an outlook it called tentative on a nine-event sample. The caution was warranted. The Repario and UnitedLex combination is a platform-scale services pairing, and the Control Risks spin-off, if it closes as expected, would put fresh private equity behind a global investigations and eDiscovery business.

Serial acquirers kept shaping the flow. Epiq has announced three 2026 transactions, adding Canopy to LitLingo in March and Tenor Legal in July. Harbor holds two, CE Global Partners in June and iTrain in July, and Elevate holds two as well, adding Lupl in August to Mestel & Co. in February. Consolidation also kept running in both directions: the tracker’s 2025 entries include Epiq’s divestiture of a business transformation unit, and the Control Risks announcement extends that carve-out pattern into 2026. All of it is happening at a pace still below recent annual totals, inside a market projected to keep growing.


A slower deal year, a market projected to grow

ComplexDiscovery’s eDiscovery Marketplace Mashup Model sizes the worldwide eDiscovery market at about $19.61 billion for 2025 and projects about $28.08 billion by 2030, a reconciled compound annual growth rate near 7.44 percent. The Model reconciles outside analyst research with vendor disclosures and industry reference sources; it is not primary research.

The Model’s segment arithmetic tracks the deal mix. Software is projected to grow at about 10.41 percent annually, lifting its share of the market from 34 percent in 2025 to 39 percent by 2030, while services grow at about 5.75 percent and remain the larger segment. Deal counts and market dollars measure different things, and a transaction count says nothing by itself about demand. Read together, though, the figures and the ledger point the same way: buyers adding the faster-growing software and AI layer, and part of the larger, slower-growing services base combining into bigger platforms.


eDiscovery Market Sizing – Past and Projected – 2026


The record approaches a quarter century

The 2026 activity extends a data set that reaches back to an early period of commercial eDiscovery consolidation. ComplexDiscovery has tracked publicly announced eDiscovery mergers, acquisitions and investments since November 2001, beginning with the LexisNexis acquisition of CourtLink, and the compilation now documents 625 events. On Nov. 5, one week after this update, the record’s earliest entry turns 25.

The five full years before 2026 still frame the current market: 55 transactions in 2021, then 21, 35, 23 and 21, for a total of 155 events and a 62 percent fall from peak to trough. The 16 deals recorded so far in 2026 sit outside that total. The compilation is not all-inclusive, its methodology notes, because many organizations do not disclose transaction details.


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What the new deals mean for practitioners

For legal, cybersecurity and information governance professionals, the latest moves raise familiar questions at larger scale. Clients of an acquired provider should ask for specifics on integration plans, product support commitments and hosting arrangements, and confirm change-of-control and data portability provisions before renewal. Organizations with managed services or managed review engagements at a combining provider should also ask how staffing, pricing and service levels carry across the new owner. The Control Risks structure adds a wrinkle worth tracking. Because closings proceed jurisdiction by jurisdiction, engagement letters and data processing agreements may move to a new contracting entity on different dates in different countries. Teams with active cross-border matters should confirm which entity holds their work as the transaction moves through its closings.

Two months remain, and the run rate points toward a third consecutive year below the five-year average of 31 events, though nearer the 21-deal totals of 2022 and 2025 than the midyear pace implied. The expected fourth-quarter close of the Control Risks spin-off is the nearest known milestone to watch, and whether unannounced negotiations surface before Dec. 31 is the open variable.

July’s question was which niche would draw the next bid before year’s end. The year answered with niches and platforms alike, and the answer sharpened the question this coverage has carried since the 2021 peak: reset, structural shift or maturation. As the record’s earliest entry turns 25 next week, which of those readings will 2027 settle?


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Index: eDiscovery Mergers, Acquisitions, and Investments

Event Date Acquired (Investee) Acquirer (Investor) Amount (Estimated $)
15-October-26 (Announced) Control Risks – Compliance, Investigations & eDiscovery (New Standalone Company) Beringer Capital
14-October Forentec Lineal
28-September-26 BotDojo Mitratech
28-September-26 UnitedLex Repario
25-September-26 Canopy Epiq
1-September-26 icourts Consilio
19-August-26 Lupl Elevate
9-July-26 Tenor Legal Epiq
7-July-26 iTrain Harbor
12-June-26 Gavel Relativity
6-June-26 CE Global Partners Harbor
24-March-26 LitLingo Epiq
20-March-26 FAZ Forensics Sax LLP
26-February-2026 eDiscovery AI HaystackID
26-February-2026 Mestel & Co. Elevate
15-January-2026 Hire Counsel Purpose Legal
12-November-2025 Encoretech Harbor
10-November-2025 Epiq – Global Business Transformation Solutions (GBTS) K2 Services
28-October-2025 Legadex Elevate
6-October-2025 First Watch Data Breach Solutions, LLC Epiq
22-September-2025 Celerity Discovery Array
4-September-2025 Inflection IT Epiq
19-August-2025 ProFile Discovery Lineal
5-August-2025 TP.One Court Reporting Lexitas
8-July-2025 Case Pilots Epiq
1-July-2025 R3 Digital Forensics ArcherHall
17-June-2025 TrueLaw Consilio
17-June-2025 Dark Circuit Labs Magnet Forensics
11-June-2025 Stroz Friedberg (Aon Cyber Solutions) LevelBlue
5-June-2025 Correllium Cellebrite
4-June-2025 Harbor Global BayPine LP Majority investment from BayPine. Renovus remains a significant investor.
2-June-2025 Altlaw Array
14-May-2025 Gimmal Morae Global Corporation
6-May-2025 Trustpoint Arcapita
18-March-2025 Indexed I/O Innovative Driven
28-January-2025 Sagacious IP Elevate
27-January-2025 Casepoint (Merger) OPEXUS (Merger) Majority investment from Thoma Bravo. Casepoint shareholders and OPEXUS’s existing investor Gemspring Capital will both retain minority positions in the combined company.
11-December-2024 Frontline Managed Services (BV Investment Partners) Broad Sky Partners
3-December-2024 LitCon Group, LLC The Vertex Companies
2-December-2024 DLS Discovery Innovative Driven
29-October-2024 Ascertus Harbor
25-September-2024 doeLEGAL DiliTrust
24-September-2024 Redgrave Data Elevate
16-September-2024 Novitas Data Proteus Discovery Group
August-2024 CodexTen Cognicion LLC Closed in August 2024, Announced on September 30, 2024
10-July-2024 Enable2 Translate.One (TrustPoint.One)
9-July-2024 KLD (Investee) Convertible debenture holders (including OTPP and MGG Investment Group), term loan lenders, revolving credit facility lender, and equity holders (including Carlyle Equity Opportunity GP, L.P., Pivotal SPAC Funding LLC, and Christopher Weiler) (Investors) Debt Restructuring (Transaction Support Agreement)
9-July 2024 Array Endeavor
10-June-2024 HotDocs Mitratech
3-June-2024 Vestige Digital Investigations ArcherHall
7-May 2024 CJK Group Elevate
7-May-2024 Onna Technologies Reveal
11-April-2024 Shephard Data Services ArcherHall
2-April-2024 Ricoh USA eDiscovery Services Business Array
8-February 2024 Veritas (Data Protection Business) Cohesity Announced Agreement to Carve Out of Veritas’ Data Protection Business to Cohesity.
1-February-2024 Pinnacle Harbor
31-January-2024 Beagle (Investee) ML Capital, Davidovs Venture Collective, and Thomas Wolf $3M in Seed Funding
24-January-2024 Frontline Managed Service’s eDiscovery Unit Complete Legal
9-January-2024 Balthasar Translate.One (Trustpoint.One)
9-January-2024 Complete Legal, L2 Services, and Precise Legal (Merger) Complete Legal (Merged Company)
19-December-2023 X1 Social Discovery Solution Pagefreezer
6-December-2023 LSi Array
28-November-2023 Mainspring Epiq
20-November-2023 Cenza Technologies KLDiscovery Announced Agreement to Acquire On September 22, 2023.
9-November-2023 Acorn Legal Solutions Array
1-November-2023 Divebell Exterro
1-November-2023 Exigent Morae Global Corporation
19-October-2023 Prosearch Consello Capital
17-October-2023 Stout’s Legal Management Consulting Practice Harbor
3-October-2023 Breakwater Solutions Repario
5-September-2023 Lawyers on Demand Consilio Announced on 2 August 2023
5-September-2023 SYKE Consilio Announced on 2 August 2023
29-August-2023 IPRO Reveal Funded by K1 Management
29-August-2023 Logikcull Reveal Funded by K1 Management
28-August-2023 Tower Legal Solutions Surge Private Equity Investment for Avalon (Surge Portfolio Company)
18-August-2023 HBR Consulting Harbor (Merged Company)
18-August-2023 LAC Group Harbor (Merged Company)
18-August-2023 Wilson Allen Harbor (Merged Company)
17-August-2023 Casetext Thomson Reuters $650 Million Cash (Announced 26 June 2023)
15-August-2023 PC Forensics Level Legal
25-July-2023 Nextpoint (Investee) RF Investment Partners (Investor)
11-July-2023 Fileread (Investee) Gradient Ventures and Soma Capital (Investors) $6 Million Seed Funding
6-June-2023 eDepoze TransPerfect Legal Solutions
23-May-2023 Beagle (Investee) Multiple Investors (Davidovs Venture Collective) $430,000
23-May-2023 Rampiva Nuix
20-March-2023 Teris, Elijah, Meta-e, and Modus Repario (JLL Partners) Strategic Partnership Between Repario Leadership Team and JLL Partners
20-March-2023 LIGL Reveal
15-March-2023 iCONECT (Investee) NewField Capital Partners (Investor) Investment Conversion to Equity
13-March-2023 JetExport E-Discovery Transperfect Acquisition of JetSuite Legal Technology Tools
6-March-2023 inWhatLanguage Trustpoint.One
16-February-2023 THM Partners LLP Alix Partners
2-February-2023 Younts Consulting HBR Consulting
31-January-2023 Micro Focus OpenText Approximately $5.8 billion, inclusive of Micro Focus’ cash and debt, subject to final adjustments.
20-January-2023 Magnet Forensics Thoma Bravo Approximately $1.3B
19-January-2023 Zapproved Exterro
15-November-2022 HBR Consulting (Advisory Business) Renovus Capital Acquisition of HBR Advisory Business by Renovus Capital
24-October-2022 Technically Creative Reveal
24-October-22 Hillogic Sky Discovery
30-September-2022 Avalon Document Services, Inc. Surge Private Equity, LLC Announced on October 3, 2022. Transaction valued at approximately $36M.
7-September-2022 Business Intelligence Associates, Inc. (BIA) HaystackID
29-August-2022 Heretik Relativity
25-August-2022 Micro Focus OpenText Intent to Acquire Micro Focus Announced
26-July-2022 Exterro (Investee) Leeds Equity Partners, Coller Capital and Glendower Capital (Investors) Recapitalization and Additional Committed Equity Capital
5-July-22 Aon’s eDiscovery Practice TCDI Definitive Agreement to Acquire Signed on June 9, 2022
16-May-22 TeleMessage Smarsh
5-May-22 Comae Technologies Magnet Forensics
2-May-22 Forensic Pursuit ArcherHall
5-April-22 Cooper Discovery Solutions ArcherHall
15-March-22 Fireman & Company Epiq
7-March-22 ModeOne Technologies (Investee) David Marroso, Esq., Dr. Andrew Langroudi, and Gregory Mazares (Investors) Seed Round funding of more than $1M. (+)
7-March-22 L2 Services Empire Technologies Risk Management Group
3-March-22 ThoughtTrace Thomson Reuters Definitive Agreement to Acquire
24-February-22 Hold360 and Request360 from Congruity 360 DISCO
24-February-22 Cybersecurity and Data Protection Practice of Palmeiro & Platt Empire Technologies Risk Management Group
26-January-22 U.S. eDiscovery Retreat Programs (From Sub-Four Capital) The CJK Group
19-January-22 Quovant Mitratech
16-December-21 GoldMind Empire Technologies Risk Management Group
16-December-21 Continuity Mitratech
14-December-21 Legility Consilio Note: Reported in Moody’s Investor Service Announcement on November 12, 2021. Announced as completed on December 14, 2021
1-December-21 Simplex Services, inc. Epiq
23-November-21 KLDiscovery (IPO Filing) IPO (Exchange TBD) Note: Filed Form S-1 with SEC for IPO.
11-November-21 Modus (Investee) J.P. Morgan (Investor) Note: Funding Secured for Working Capital
10-November-21 Driven (Merger) Innovative Discovery (Merger)
3-November-21 Digital Safe Product Line of Micro Focus Smarsh Note: Announced with intent to close in Q1 2022
2-November-21 Everlaw (Investee) TPG (Lead) with HIG Growth Partners, Capital G, Menlo Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz and K9 Ventures. Series D Funding for $202,000,000
27-October-21 Nextpoint (Investee) Sterling National Bank and Bigfoot Capital (Investors) Note: $4,500,000 in Growth Capital Secured ($2,500,000 from Sterling National Bank (Senior Facility) and $2,000,000 from Bigfoot Capital (Mezzanine Financing))
27-October-21 WarRoom Nextpoint Note: WarRoom Acquired from LaunchPad Lab
19-October-21 Legal Consulting and eDiscovery Business Units of Special Counsel Consilio
11-October-21 Digital Clues AG Cellebrite Note: Announced with intent to close in Q4 2021
6-October-21 Ayfie Inspector AI Code Base from Ayfie Group, AS iCONECT
22-September-21 Alyne Mitratech
13-September-21 DME Forensics Magnet Forensics $6,750,000 (Closing) + $2,250,000 (Potential)
13-September-21 Topos Labs, Inc. Nuix $5,000,000 (Closing) + $20,000,000 (Potential)
9-September-21 Hanzo (Investee) Recurring Capital Partners (Investor) $10,500,000
30-August-21 Cellebrite (Merger) TWC Tech Holdings – Special Purpose Acquisition Company (Merger)
25-August-21 ESI Analyst CloudNine
17-August-21 Adaptive Solutions Morae Global Corporation
17-August-21 Morae Global Corporation (Investee) BlackRock (Investor)
11-August-21 H5 Lighthouse
2-Aug-21 Digital Discovery Cobra Legal Solutions
30-Jul-21 Semantix (Merger) TransPerfect (Merger)
26-Jul-21 Gnoêsis Group Array
21-Jul-21 CS DISCO NYSE IPO Filing
7-July-21 ZyLAB IPRO
23-Jun-21 Integreon (Investee) EagleTree Capital (Investor) Note: EagleTree Acquisition from NewQuest Capital Partners
14-Jun-21 CloudNine (Investee) Crest Rock (Investor) Note: Crest Rock Acquisition from Peak Rock Capital
27-May-21 Text IQ Relativity
17-May-21 24legal Sandline Discovery
10-May-21 Contract Room Mitratech
6-May-21 AdvanceLaw Mitratech
4-May-2021 Sherpa Software Gimmal
3-May-2021 Magnet Forensics – IPO Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX)
28-Apr-21 Paralaw Xact Data Discovery
26-Apr-21 Proofpoint (Investee) Thomas Bravo (Investor) Note: Definitive Agreement to be Acquired for $12.3 B
20-Apr-21 Xact Data Discovery (Merger) Consilio (Merger) Note: Closed on May 17, 2021
20-Apr-21 Xact Data Discovery Aquiline Capital Partners
20-Apr-21 Consilio Stone Point Capital
20-Apr-21 Lexolution Xact Data Discovery
19-Apr-21 Druva (Investee) CDPQ, Neuberger Berman, Viking Global Investors and Atreides Management (Investors)
13-Apr-21 Zeledon-Castillo Xact Data Discovery
7-Apr-21 Cobra Legal Solutions (Investee) Blue Sage Capital (Investor)
25-Mar-21 Redscan Kroll
25-Mar-21 CrossRealms (Joint Venture) Veristar (Joint Venture)
18-Mar-21 Relativity (Investee) Silver Lake
9-Mar-21 Compliance (System One) (Investee) Oaktree Capital
22-Feb-21 Redpoint Technologies First Legal
9-Feb-21 Planet Data Solutions Veristar
8-Feb-21 doeLEGAL Questel
26-Jan-21 Reveal (Investee) K1 Investment Management (Investor) $200,000,000
26-Jan-21 Brainspace (Merger) Reveal (Merger)
6-Jan-21 VerQu Relativity
17-Dec-20 DISCO (Investee) Comerica (Equity Investment) $40,000,000
4-Dec-20 Nuix LImited (NXL) – IPO Australian Stock Exchange (ASX)
3-Dec-20 AccessData Exterro
1-Dec-20 Cicayda TCDI
12-Nov-20 Hyperion Global Partners Epiq
10-Nov-20 Digital Reasoning Smarsh
15-Oct-20 DISCO (Investee) Georgian Partners, Bessemer Venture Partners, LiveOak Venture Partner, The Stephens Group, Breyer Capital (Investors)
2-Oct-20 RYABI Group (Merger) Rampiva Technology, Inc. (Merger) (Combined Company Now Rampiva Global LLC)
29-Sep-20 Acuity ELM Mitratech
28-Sep-20 Globanet Veritas
8-Sep-20 Haive Ayfie
3-Sep-20 Integro Innovative Discovery
19-Aug-20 Venio Systems (Investee) Software Growth Partners (Investor)
13-Aug-20 CaseLines Thomson Reuters
11-Aug-20 NexLP Reveal
5-Aug-20 Anexsys Xact Data Discovery
4-Aug-20 NightOwl Global (Merger) HaystackID (Merger)
31-Jul-20 Tracker Corp Mitratech
14-Jul-20 LightSpeed Xact Data Discovery
8-Jul-20 RVM Xact Data Discovery
7-Jul-20 NetGovern Ipro
1-Jul-20 Janders Dean Morae Global Corporation
22-Jun-20 CMPG Mitratech
17-Jun-20 Onna (Investee) Series B Funding (Atomico, Glynn Capital Dawn Capital, Nauta Capital, and Slack Fund) $27,000,000
10-Jun-20 Paul Hastings Data Analytics Team (DSAI) UnitedLex
21-May-20 Entreda Smarsh
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 ClusterSeven Mitratech
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
10-Nov-19 INSZoom Mitratech
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
3-Jun-19 Onna (Investee) Series A Funding (Dawn Capital, Dropbox, Slack Fund, and Nauta Capital) $11,000,000
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)
23-Apri-18 ThinkSmart Mitratech
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)
4-Apr-17 Mitratech (Investment) HgCapital (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
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
1-Aug-16 Hitec Laboratories Mitratech
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)
21-Jun-16 CMO Software Mitratech
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
9-Mar-16 Viewabill Mitratech
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
15-Sep-15 Mitratech (Investment) TA Associates (Investors)
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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