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May 9, 2022

LexisNexis acquires contract lifecycle management solution Parley Pro

LexisNexis Legal & Professional acquired Parley Pro, a top Contract Lifecycle Management solution, to complement LexisNexis' industry-leading Enterprise Legal Management platform, CounselLink. Founded in 2015, Parley Pro enables efficient and effective contract request, drafting, negotiation, signature, and post-signature management via a secure, cloud-based platform.

Company: [RELX] [LexisNexis Legal & Professional] [Parley Pro]

Dec 1, 2021

LexisNexis acquires of legal transaction management platform Closd

LexisNexis Legal & Professional announced that it has acquired Closd, a top-tier provider of legal transaction management in Europe, founded in 2018. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Closd operates a legal transaction management SaaS platform that makes the management of complex legal projects simpler, safer and faster. Its end-to-end legal project management solution includes automated workflow management, secure document sharing, data rooms, electronic closing, transaction bible generation and document archiving.

Company: [RELX] [LexisNexis Legal & Professional] [Closd]

Jun 8, 2017

LexisNexis acquires Ravel Law

LexisNexis Legal & Professional has acquired Ravel Law, a legal research, analytics and visualization platform that empowers users to contextualize and interpret vast amounts of information to uncover valuable insights.

Company: [RELX] [LexisNexis Legal & Professional] [Ravel Law]

Oct 23, 2015

LexisNexis acquires Lex Machina

LexisNexis Legal & Professional has acquired privately held Lex Machina, Inc., creator of Legal Analytics, a next-generation technology platform that transforms how law firms and companies excel in the business and practice of law. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

Company: [RELX] [LexisNexis Legal & Professional] [Lex Machina]

Jul 28, 2015

LexisNexis acquires MLex

LexisNexis Legal & Professional has acquired MLex, a leading provider of content and technology solutions, today announced the acquisition of MLex, a global legal media organization providing exclusive market insight, analysis and commentary on regulatory risk.

Company: [RELX] [LexisNexis Legal & Professional] [MLex]

Oct 20, 2014

LexisNexis acquires Moreover Technologies

LexisNexis Legal & Professional, a leading provider of content and technology solutions, announced that it has acquired Moreover Technologies, Inc., a leading global content delivery service and provider of consolidated current awareness and media management solutions. Financial details of the transaction were not disclosed.

Company: [RELX] [LexisNexis Legal & Professional] [Moreover Technologies]

Jun 22, 2014

LexisNexis acquires Canadian legal publishing operation from Wolters Kluwer

LexisNexis Legal & Professional announced acquired the Canadian legal publishing assets of Wolters Kluwer. The acquisition will extend the LexisNexis portfolio of next-generation products and solutions for customers within the Canadian market. Simultaneously, Reed Elsevier agreed to transfer its LexisNexis Poland legal business to Wolters Kluwer's Legal & Regulatory division.

Company: [RELX] [LexisNexis Legal & Professional] [Wolters Kluwer]

May 22, 2013

LexisNexis acquires publishing brands Sheshunoff and A.S. Pratt from the Thompson Media Group

LexisNexis Legal & Professional announced that, together with Reed Elsevier Properties SA, it has acquired the acclaimed publishing brands and businesses of Sheshunoff and A.S. Pratt from the Thompson Media Group.

Company: [RELX] [LexisNexis Legal & Professional]

May 4, 2012

LexisNexis acquires Sanction Solutions

LexisNexis Legal & Professional has acquired Sanction Solutions, a leading provider of innovative presentation software and services used by lawyers, paralegals and litigation support directors. Sanction litigation presentation software provides litigators a single resource to quickly assemble documents, exhibits, transcripts, questions, visuals and video that will be used to manage and present evidence throughout litigation, categorize them, and then create clear, polished and compelling presentation materials necessary for building a case.

Company: [RELX] [LexisNexis Legal & Professional] [Sanction Solutions]

Mar 20, 2012

LexisNexis acquires Law360

LexisNexis acquired Portfolio Media, the parent company of Law360, an online provider of speedy and trusted legal news and analysis for business lawyers, primarily in the United States.

Company: [RELX] [LexisNexis Legal & Professional]

Nov 1, 2010

LexisNexis acquires State Net

LexisNexis has acquired State Net, the premier provider of legislative and regulatory content and tools in the United States. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.

Company: [RELX] [LexisNexis Legal & Professional] [State Net]

Oct 30, 2008

LexisNexis acquires IDEX

LexisNexis, a leading global provider of content-enabled workflow solutions, announced that it has acquired IDEX, Inc. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. Based in Overland Park, Kansas; IDEX is a leading provider of expert witness content to the legal market. The company maintains an authoritative, exclusive database of more than 1,000,000 records on 200,000-plus experts – including expert profiles, testimonial histories, verdict awards, settlement amounts, authored content, and expert depositions and court testimony.

Company: [RELX] [LexisNexis Legal & Professional]

Jun 12, 2008

LexisNexis acquires LAWbase

LexisNexis announced the acquisition of the LAWbase practice management business from CCH New Zealand Ltd. This acquisition will expand the existing LexisNexis portfolio of products and services, including PCLaw and Lexis Affinity, designed to help legal professionals manage their businesses and workflows more efficiently.

Company: [RELX] [LexisNexis Legal & Professional] [LAWbase]

Jun 4, 2008

LexisNexis Butterworths India merges with leading Indian legal publisher, Wadhwa Nagpur

LexisNexis, a leading global provider of business information solutions, announced the merger of Wadhwa Nagpur, one of India’s providers of legal publishing information, with LexisNexis Butterworths India. The combined company, headquartered in New Delhi, will be the leader of legal information solutions in India. The merger reinforces LexisNexis’ commitment to the India market and bolsters the company’s ability to take advantage of additional market growth drivers, including digitization of courts, the rapidly growing legal profession and the increasing demand for information solutions.

Company: [RELX] [LexisNexis Legal & Professional]

Jan 6, 2008

LexisNexis acquires Redwood Analytics

LexisNexis has acquired New Jersey-based Redwood Analytics, the leading provider of business performance analytics software for large law firms and an expert resource for business performance benchmarking services.

Company: [RELX] [LexisNexis Legal & Professional]

Jul 9, 2007

LexisNexis acquires Juris, Inc.

LexisNexis has acquired Nashville-based Juris, Inc., the leading provider of time, billing, and accounting software for mid-sized law firms.

Company: [RELX] [LexisNexis Legal & Professional]

Jun 6, 2007

LexisNexis acquires Image Capture Engineering

LexisNexis announced that LexisNexis Applied Discovery has acquired Image Capture Engineering, Inc., the industry pioneer and market leader in the development of discovery document processing software. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.

Company: [RELX] [LexisNexis Legal & Professional]

Jul 2004

Reed Elsevier acquires Seisint for $775 million

Reed Elsevier Group announced that LexisNexis, its legal and business and government information solutions business, has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire the entire share capital of Seisint, Inc. for $775 million

Company: [RELX] [LexisNexis Legal & Professional] [Seisint]

Aug 8, 1996

Reed Elsevier acquires Tolley Publishing Company

Reed Elsevier acquired Tolley Publishing Company from United News & Media for a cash consideration of £100.5 million. Tolley supplies information and commentary for use by professional and business people in the tax, legal and business markets in the United Kingdom.

Company: [RELX] [LexisNexis Legal & Professional] [Tolley Publishing Company]

Oct 3, 1994

Reed Elsevier acquires LexisNexis from Mead for $1.5 billion

Reed Elsevier acquired the assets of Mead Data Central, which operates the Lexis/Nexis legal and business publishing business. The acquisition includes Michie Co., a leading U.S. state law publisher.

Company: [RELX] [LexisNexis Legal & Professional] [Mead Corporation]

1990

Butterworth–Heinemann formed through the merger of Heinemann Professional Publishing and Butterworths Scientific

Company: [RELX] [LexisNexis Legal & Professional]

1973

Ohio Bar Automated Research becomes Lexis

Company: [LexisNexis Legal & Professional] [Mead Corporation]

1971

NEXIS service launched by Mead Data Central

Company: [LexisNexis Legal & Professional] [Mead Corporation]

1970

Reed acquires International Publishing Corporation

International Publishing Corporation had previously acquired Butterworths in 1965

Company: [RELX] [LexisNexis Legal & Professional] [Reed International]

1968

Mead Corporation acquires Data Corporation

Company: [LexisNexis Legal & Professional] [Mead Corporation]

1968

Mead Data Central established by Mead Corporation

Company: [LexisNexis Legal & Professional] [Mead Corporation]

1967

Ohio Bar Automated Research launched by Data Corporation

Company: [LexisNexis Legal & Professional] [RELX]