Strategic Legal Technology

More consolidation in the e-discovery (EDD) market. 

Iron Mountain today announced it will acquire Stratify. Between acquisitions and start-ups, it’s hard to track exactly, but I think the number of free-standing review platforms is going down.

For reference, from my The Best Home for an E-Discovery Vendor (another acquisition) post in June 2006, here are some acquisitions that I’ve tracked, separated pre- and post that date:

June 2006 or earlier:
- Xerox acquired Amici Xerox press release
- The Phillipine phone company acquired SPI Tech
- Pitney Bowes acquired Ibis, and Compulit before that
- Integron acquired Bowne’s EED services
- Xiotech acquired Daticon
- Epiq acquired nMatrix
- FTI Consulting acquired Ringtail
- Marsh & McLennan acquired Kroll
- LexisNexis acquired Applied Discovery

Since June 2006:
7/25/06: LexisNexis announced yesterday (7/24/06) that it is acquiring DataFlight, maker of Concordance software. See the press release
8/1/06: Huron Consulting announces acquisition of Aaxis Technologies and of Nextra
9/27/06: Techbooks announces (9/18) acquisition of Whitmont Legal Technologies.
9/28/06: Thomson acquires LiveNote
10/6/06: Océ Business Services acquires CaseData (press release, PDF)
11/20/06: Kroll Ontrack acquires e-discovery software provider Engenium (press release, PDF)
3/1/07: Merrill Corporation Announces Acquisition of Lextranet
5/31/07: Anacomp acquires CaseLogistix
6/4/07: Syngence acuired by private investors
7/16/07: Autonomy and Zantaz merge July 3, 2007
10/31/07: Iron Mountain today announced it will acquire Stratify
12/9/07: Seagate Acquires MetaLINCS E-Discovery Software
1/14/08: Deloitte Acquires Barrasso Consulting
6/10/08: FTI Consulting, Inc. to Acquire Attenex Corporation
7/24/08: Interwoven to Acquire eDiscovery Innovator Discovery Mining, Inc.
8/29/08: Access Litigation acquired by Edmond Scientific Company per Washington Business Journal in Edmond Scientific buys Access Litigation