Consilio

2023年8月8日

2023年8月9日:安迪•麦克唐纳(左)和西蒙·哈珀灵活的律师业务的出售LOD的私人股本支持者美国公司Consilio将“提速”增长,创始人西蒙·哈珀已告知法律期货。Consilio上周宣布购买替代法律服务提供者原名律师的需求以及斯凯,LOD的法律技术咨询公司2021年投资的战略伙伴关系。Consilio是e-disclosure领先、文档审查和法律技术咨询业务,还提供了灵活的法律资源。LOD集团与世界各地的10个办事处,2016年在亚洲和澳大利亚与AdventBalance合并,有超过500家跨国客户在25个国家,包括27个成员国的富时100指数和54在澳大利亚ASX 200。它与超过4500名律师,法律工程师、法律业务顾问、律师助理和风险和合规人员。LOD,不是监管律师事务所,是第一个公司提供自由的律师和律师事务所早在2007年,一个模型,该模型已被广泛复制。2018年,Bowmark资本支持管理层收购,成为控股股东,意味着LOD将所有权与Bryan Cave雷顿Paisner,孵化。在这一点上,LOD全球的营业额是£40 m,£1.4的利润。哈珀表示LOD增加了一倍多收入和利润在Bowmark时期,补充说,有“不紧急”的投资者出售。“这是关于等待合适的交易。” Mr Harper said that LOD and Consilio have a similar culture, “with minimal overlap in terms of service lines and geographies, and pretty much overnight helps us achieve our strategic goal of offering clients the full spectrum of alternative legal services across the globe”. He continued: “Since our inception in 2007, we’ve constantly looked at different ways to grow the business in response to what clients are looking for as the market develops. Becoming part of Consilio turbo-charges that growth and is a continuation of that strategy.” Asked what the deal could help LOD achieve that it could not on its own, Mr Harper explained: “Legal teams are increasingly demanding holistic and cross-border solutions to the issues that they face. “Consilio is already the world’s largest [e-disclosure] provider and the second largest flexible talent provider in the US. Joining them brings investment, helping us accelerate our growth to meet this demand. “Our footprint will rapidly increase as we combine their US strength and our existing international network.” The LOD and SYKE brands will continue “for now”, but Mr Harper said “over time we will experiment to see how best to appeal to lawyers and clients with our brands”. Existing management will stay in place. He added that the feedback about the deal from lawyers and staff around the world “has been overwhelmingly supportive, positive and open minded”. Consilio said the deal would expand its enterprise legal services business to Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Asia and Australia. Chief executive Andy Macdonald said: “The flexible talent market remains fragmented, and we continue to explore opportunities to create impactful solutions for legal teams as they face an unprecedented amount of talent concerns, as a result of historically high attrition rates, budgetary freezes, and legal industry salary increases out of reach for many corporations.”