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Jun 7, 2022

Elsevier acquires Interfolio

Elsevier has acquired Interfolio, a provider of advanced faculty information solutions for higher education, headquartered in Washington DC, US.

Company: [Elsevier] [Interfolio] [RELX]

Jun 1, 2022

LexisNexis Risk Solutions acquires property insurtech Flyreel

LexisNexis Risk Solutions, part of RELX, announced it has acquired Flyreel, a Denver-based property insurtech that uses artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning to enable self-service property inspections, which provide additional visibility into a property's interior and exterior to improve and automate new business and renewal underwriting and claims processes. Flyreel will become part of the insurance business within LexisNexis Risk Solutions, complementing the insurance data and analytics leader's existing breadth of data assets and models that help assess risk for a structure's inhabitants and location.

Company: [RELX] [LexisNexis Risk Solutions]

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]

May 3, 2022

LexisNexis Risk Solutions acquires behavioral biometric innovator BehavioSec

LexisNexis Risk Solutions, part of RELX, has announced the acquisition of BehavioSec, an advanced behavioral biometrics technology provider. Founded in Sweden in 2008 with a presence in the U.S., Canada and EMEA, BehavioSec provides a highly predictive behavioral biometrics solution that uses behavior analysis for continuous authentication to establish identity trust and help prevent fraud. Solutions from BehavioSec will become a part of the Business Services group within LexisNexis Risk Solutions and enhance its device and digital identity-focused offerings, such as LexisNexis ThreatMetrix.

Company: [RELX] [LexisNexis Risk Solutions]

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]

Nov 29, 2021

Elsevier acquires Osmosis.org

Elsevier acquired Osmosis, a US-based visual learning platform that has simplified the complex learning journey for millions of current and future healthcare professionals and their patients around the world.

Company: [Elsevier] [RELX] [Osmosis]

Aug 25, 2021

LexisNexis Risk Solutions acquires TruNarrative

LexisNexis Risk Solutions , part of RELX, has acquired TruNarrative, which provides a cloud-based orchestration platform that detects and prevents financial crime and fraud. TruNarrative will become a part of the Business Services group of LexisNexis Risk Solutions.

Company: [RELX] [LexisNexis Risk Solutions] [TruNarrative]

Feb 16, 2021

LexisNexis Risk Solutions and Accuity merge operations

Accuity and LexisNexis Risk Solutions announced they are merging operations. Both businesses are RELX companies and leaders in their respective focus areas in the global financial crime compliance sector with complementary solutions. Accuity is part of the LexisNexis Risk Solutions group of companies.

Company: [RELX] [LexisNexis Risk Solutions]

Dec 9, 2020

Elsevier acquires Shadow Health

Elsevier acquired Shadow Health, a Florida-based developer of virtual simulations in nursing and healthcare education.

Company: [Elsevier] [RELX] [Shadow Health]

Aug 21, 2020

Elsevier acquires SciBite

Elsevier acquired SciBite, a semantic AI company headquartered in Cambridge, UK. SciBite's solutions identify and extract scientific insights from structured and unstructured text and content, to identify key concepts such as drugs, proteins, companies, targets, and outcomes. This semantically-enriched, machine-readable data, helps SciBite's customers around the world make streamlined, more efficient decisions. SciBite was founded in 2011 by Dr. Lee Harland, who currently serves as Chief Scientific Officer at the company.

Company: [Elsevier] [RELX] [SciBite]

Mar 11, 2020

Elsevier acquires Authess

Elsevier acquired Authess, the Boston-based developer of an advanced performance-based competency assessment platform that evaluates how students solve complex, open-ended problems they would encounter on the job. Founded in 2015, Authess built a scalable platform for authoring, delivering and scoring performance-based competency assessments. The company's machine-learning models and data analytics observe students as they work through a task, capturing not just their answers but their behaviour, process and problem-solving approach.

Company: [Elsevier] [RELX] [Authess]

Feb 3, 2020

LexisNexis Risk Solutions acquires Emailage

LexisNexis Risk Solutions, part of RELX, announced it has entered into an agreement to acquire Emailage, a global provider of fraud prevention and risk management solutions. Emailage will become a part of the Business Services group of LexisNexis Risk Solutions. Founded in 2012 and based in the Phoenix metro area with offices across the globe, Emailage helps organizations reduce online fraud by building multi-dimensional profiles associated with customer email addresses to render predictive risk scores.

Company: [RELX] [LexisNexis Risk Solutions] [Emailage]

Jan 21, 2020

LexisNexis Risk Solutions acquires ID Analytics

LexisNexis Risk Solutions, a global data and advanced analytics leader and part of RELX, announced that it has closed the acquisition of ID Analytics, the San Diego-based provider of fraud and credit risk solutions. ID Analytics utilizes advanced technology, data and analytics to deliver actionable insights for enterprises. Previously ID Analytics was a NortonLifeLock company.

Company: [RELX] [LexisNexis Risk Solutions] [ID Analytics]

Nov 27, 2019

Elsevier acquires 3D4Medical for $50.6 million

Elsevier acquired 3D4Medical, the global anatomy education company headquartered in Dublin, Ireland. 3D4Medical created Complete Anatomy, the world's most advanced 3D anatomy platform, revolutionizing how students, educators, health professionals and patients understand and interact with anatomy. With outstanding technology and design that pushes the boundaries of how people learn using advanced 3D visualization tools, Complete Anatomy has garnered more than a million registered users at more than 300 of the world's top universities.

Company: [Elsevier] [RELX] [3D4Medical]

Jul 29, 2019

Elsevier acquires Parity Computing

Elsevier signed a definitive agreement to acquire Parity Computing, a California-based business that employs artificial intelligence to provide high-accuracy entity resolution, profiling and recommendations for STM content and applications in the world of research. Parity provides disambiguation technology for Elsevier's abstract and indexing databases that help researchers, universities, national bodies and other stakeholders improve decision-making and answer critical questions. Resolving ambiguities in entities and relationships that appear in publications lays the foundation for the analytics and decision support capabilities of Scopus.

Company: [Elsevier] [RELX] [Parity Computing]

May 7, 2019

LexisNexis Risk Solutions acquires Lumen from Numerica Corporation

LexisNexis Risk Solutions announced it is further expanding its public safety solutions with the acquisition of all Lumen assets, a product line owned by Numerica Corporation, a Colorado-based company. Lumen is an integrated data platform leveraged by public safety analysts, investigators, patrol officers and commanders to help solve cases faster. Lumen will become part of the product line of the Government group of LexisNexis Risk Solutions and its public safety and law enforcement solutions.

Company: [RELX] [LexisNexis Risk Solutions]

Feb 15, 2019

Kumsal Bayazit appointed Chief Executive Officer of Elsevier

Elsevier appointed Kumsal Bayazit as Chief Executive Officer effective February 15, 2019.

Company: [Elsevier] [RELX]

Dec 9, 2018

Elsevier acquires Science-Metrix

Elsevier has acquired Science-Metrix Inc., a research evaluation firm that provides science research evaluation and analytics to assess science and technology activities. Headquartered in Montréal, Canada, Science-Metrix is known for high-quality and independent bibliometric analysis and research evaluation.

Company: [Elsevier] [RELX] [Science-Metrix]

Sep 10, 2018

Elsevier acquires Aries Systems

Elsevier completed its acquisition of Aries Systems, a leader in scientific publication workflow solutions headquartered outside Boston, Massachusetts. Aries' offerings are used by journals, books and other publications for manuscript submission, peer review, production tracking and eCommerce.

Company: [Elsevier] [RELX] [Aries Systems]

Apr 5, 2018

Elsevier launches Mendeley Data

Elsevier launched Mendeley Data, a new, cloud-based platform designed to help universities and researchers manage, share and showcase their research data. With Mendeley Data, researchers can safely record and share research data while improving its reuse via publication, while universities can showcase institutional outputs and improve their collaboration rate.

Company: [Elsevier] [RELX]

Jan 22, 2018

LexisNexis Risk Solutions acquires ThreatMetrix

LexisNexis Risk Solutions, a global data technology and advanced analytics leader, announced that its parent company, RELX Group, has closed the acquisition of ThreatMetrix. ThreatMetrix will become part of RELX Group’s Risk & Business Analytics segment, which includes LexisNexis Risk Solutions.

Company: [RELX] [LexisNexis Risk Solutions] [ThreatMetrix]

Jan 17, 2018

Elsevier acquires Via Oncology

Elsevier acquired Via Oncology, a Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania-based company that provides decision support and best practices in cancer care management. A former subsidiary of UPMC, one of the nation's leading integrated healthcare delivery and financing systems, Via Oncology helps cancer centers demonstrate the value of their care to patients, referring physicians and payers by developing and implementing clinical pathways in collaboration with its network of more than 1,500 US cancer care providers.

Company: [Elsevier] [RELX] [Via Oncology]

Aug 2, 2017

Elsevier acquires Bepress

Elsevier has acquired bepress, a Berkeley, California-based business that helps academic libraries showcase and share their institutions' research for maximum impact. Founded by three University of California, Berkeley professors in 1999, bepress allows institutions to collect, organize, preserve and disseminate their intellectual output, including preprints, working papers, journals or specific articles, dissertations, theses, conference proceedings and a wide variety of other data.

Company: [Elsevier] [RELX]

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]

Feb 2, 2017

Elsevier acquires Plum Analytics

Elsevier acquired Plum Analytics from EBSCO Information Services, a global information services company providing research and discovery platforms and access to premium content. The acquisition will enable Elsevier to significantly expand access to Plum Analytics’ altmetrics to more researchers and more institutions.

Company: [Elsevier] [Plum Analytics] [RELX]

Sep 21, 2016

LexisNexis to acquire Intelligize

LexisNexis Legal & Professional announced its intent to acquire privately held Intelligize, Inc., provider of the industry standard for U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission intelligence. The acquisition would expand the LexisNexis securities and M&A offering with new content, innovative tools and analytics while complementing the capabilities of the company's existing securities solution, Lexis Securities Mosaic.

Company: [RELX] [LexisNexis] [Intelligize]

Aug 8, 2016

LexisNexis Risk Solutions acquires Crash and Project business group of Appriss

LexisNexis Risk Solutions, part of RELX Group, announced it is acquiring the Crash and Project business group of Appriss, a public safety business that provides technology solutions for the efficient collection of crash reports and electronic citations. LexisNexis will utilize the acquired technology within its LexisNexis Coplogic Solutions portfolio, a comprehensive electronic crash and incident reporting suite, to enhance its capabilities to provide a more complete solution to the law enforcement community.

Company: [RELX] [LexisNexis Risk Solutions]

Jul 20, 2016

LexisNexis Risk Solutions acquires Insurance Initiatives

LexisNexis Risk Solutions, part of RELX Group, has acquired Insurance Initiatives, a business which provides a data distribution platform that extracts, hosts and processes large quantities of data to deliver information predominantly into the point-of-quote in the UK's Property & Casualty Insurance industry. The acquisition of IIL will help UK insurers to transform business performance and continue to win new opportunities with data and advanced analytics from experienced insurance industry experts.

Company: [RELX] [LexisNexis Risk Solutions]

Jun 7, 2016

Elsevier acquires laboratory data management tool Hivebench

Elsevier announced the acquisition of Hivebench, the flagship product of researcher application developer Shazino, based in Lyon, France. This tool will be integrated into Elsevier's existing Research Data Management portfolio, resulting in the further enhancement of the researcher experience.

Company: [Elsevier] [RELX] [Hivebench]

May 17, 2016

Elsevier acquires the Social Science Research Network

Elsevier acquires the Social Science Research Network and plans to strengthen it alongside Mendeley's technology platform

Company: [Elsevier] [RELX]

May 17, 2016

Elsevier acquires SSRN

Elsevier acquires Social Science Research Network, with plans to strengthen it alongside Mendeley's technology platform, marks a significant advancement for each community of users

Company: [Elsevier] [RELX] [SSRN]

Oct 27, 2015

Reed Business Information acquires Adaptris Group Limited

Reed Business Information, part of RELX Group's Risk and Business Information division, has acquired the entire issued share capital of software business Adaptris Group Limited.

Company: [RELX] [LexisNexis Risk Solutions] [Adaptris Group]

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]

Jul 1, 2015

Elsevier Acquires InferMed

Elsevier acquired InferMed, a London-based clinical decision support technology company. InferMed's Arezzo technology supports clinicians in choosing the most appropriate treatment path for each patient. Arezzo matches appropriate evidence-based guidelines with patient information and dynamically evaluates best-practice options in the light of current patient and disease information. Arezzo helps physicians improve care outcomes while taking unnecessary costs out of the system.

Company: [Elsevier] [RELX] [InferMed]

Feb 25, 2015

Reed Elsevier becomes RELX

From February 25, ownership of all Reed Elsevier businesses, subsidiaries and financing activities below the two listed parent companies, Reed Elsevier PLC and Reed Elsevier NV, has been transferred to a new single group entity. This entity has been named RELX Group plc. RELX Group plc will continue to be owned by Reed Elsevier PLC, the London listing vehicle, and Reed Elsevier NV, the Amsterdam listing vehicle, although we will be asking shareholders at the Annual General Meeting to change their names to RELX PLC and RELX NV respectively.

Company: [RELX] [Elsevier]

Feb 25, 2015

Elsevier parent company Reed Elsevier becomes RELX Group

All Reed Elsevier businesses, subsidiaries and financing activities below the two listed parent companies, Reed Elsevier PLC and Reed Elsevier NV, has been transferred to a new single group entity. This entity has been named RELX Group plc. RELX Group plc will continue to be owned by Reed Elsevier PLC, the London listing vehicle, and Reed Elsevier NV, the Amsterdam listing vehicle, although we will be asking shareholders at the Annual General Meeting to change their names to RELX PLC and RELX NV respectively.

Company: [RELX] [Elsevier]

Jan 12, 2015

Elsevier acquires Newsflo

Elsevier has acquired Newsflo, a London-based company that helps researchers and academic institutions to measure the wider impact of their work by tracking and analyzing media coverage of their publications and findings.

Company: [Elsevier] [RELX] [Newsflo]

Jan 6, 2015

LexisNexis acquires BAIR Analytics

LexisNexis Risk Solutions to acquire BAIR Analytics, a provider of analytics solutions for public safety. BAIR Analytics deploys strong technology, robust analytics, mapping, and visual tools to identify and predict patterns of crime.

Company: [RELX] [LexisNexis Risk Solutions]

Nov 13, 2014

LexisNexis to acquire Health Market Science

LexisNexis Risk Solutions to acquire Health Market Science, a leading supplier of high-quality data on health care professionals and an administrator of one of the largest practitioner-level medical claims databases in the U.S.

Company: [RELX] [LexisNexis Risk Solutions] [Health Market Science]

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]

Sep 3, 2014

Reed Elsevier acquires FircoSoft

Reed Elsevier to acquire FircoSoft, the Paris-based global sanctions screening software group. Reed Elsevier intends that FircoSoft will be combined with Accuity, its leading provider of global payment routing data and anti-money laundering solutions to banks and businesses worldwide.

Company: [RELX] [LexisNexis Risk Solutions]

Aug 12, 2014

LexisNexis acquires Coplogic

exisNexis Risk Solutions acquired Coplogic, a leading provider of citizen self-reporting software solutions to law enforcement agencies. The acquisition, which includes Coplogic's technology, staff and book of business, adds a citizen incident reporting capability to the LexisNexis eCrash solution. As a result of the acquisition, law enforcement agencies will experience significant time savings and efficiencies that enable them to better allocate resources to pursue other public safety activities and better meet the needs of the community. Agencies using the Coplogic solution have reported citizens filing up to 30 percent of all reports online, eliminating the need to dispatch officers for minor non-threatening incidents.

Company: [RELX] [LexisNexis Risk Solutions] [Coplogic]

Aug 4, 2014

LexisNexis acquires PoliceReports.US

LexisNexis Risk Solutions acquired PoliceReports.US, an online distributor of vehicle accident reports currently in use by 29 states. Finalized on August 4, the acquisition – which includes PoliceReports.US technology, staff and book of business – will complement the LexisNexis eCrash solution with enhanced crash report data, analytics and distribution capabilities. This acquisition follows closely to the company's purchase of iyeTek in May – an innovative software development company that creates mobile and handheld software solutions – strengthening the capabilities of the LexisNexis eCrash solution and expanding its market presence.

Company: [RELX] [LexisNexis Risk Solutions] [PoliceReports.US]

Jul 12, 2014

Elsevier acquires Amirsys

Elsevier acquired Amirsys. Focused on visually oriented medical disciplines like radiology, pathology and anatomy, Amirsys' global solutions give healthcare providers the expert information and clinical decision support (CDS) tools to make informed, expert and evidence-based diagnoses. Amirsys also provides learning environments that help those training in these disciplines to sharpen their diagnostic skills and increase their knowledge.

Company: [Elsevier] [RELX] [Amirsys]

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 20, 2014

LexisNexis acquires Wunelli

LexisNexis Risk Solutions announced it is expanding its global usage-based insurance solutions with the acquisition of Wunelli, a telematics data services company based in the United Kingdom. Together, the companies will empower insurers to leverage telematics data to make timely, informed decisions, reduce risk exposure and improve consumers' experience with usage-based insurance.

Company: [RELX] [LexisNexis Risk Solutions]

Apr 1, 2014

LexisNexis acquires Tracesmart

LexisNexis Risk Solutions has acquired United Kingdom-based Tracesmart. Founded in 1999, Tracesmart is a provider of consumer data and identity, risk and trace solutions serving UK clients by delivering web-based software for tracing, identity verification/fraud prevention, anti-money laundering, debt collection and data cleansing.

Company: [RELX] [LexisNexis Risk Solutions]

Sep 16, 2013

LexisNexis Risk Solutions acquires Mapflow

LexisNexis Risk Solutions acquired Dublin-based Mapflow to help commercial and home insurers better understand geographic peril risk at the property level to make more informed underwriting decisions and better manage their portfolio exposure. Mapflow is an industry-leading geographic risk assessment technology company with solutions that complement the comprehensive data, advanced analytics, supercomputing platform and linking capabilities offered by LexisNexis.

Company: [RELX] [LexisNexis Risk Solutions]

Aug 12, 2013

Elsevier acquires Woodhead Publishing

Elsevier announced it has acquired Woodhead Publishing Limited, an award-winning, UK-based publisher known for its high-quality content in the fields of materials science, food science, engineering, energy & environmental technology, textile technology and biomedicine. The acquisition of Woodhead Publishing also includes Chandos Publishing, which is known for its strong publishing program in library information science and Asian studies.

Company: [Elsevier] [RELX] [Woodhead Publishing]

Aug 7, 2013

Elsevier acquires certain book assets of Gulf Publishing Company

Elsevier acquired certain book assets of Gulf Publishing Company. The portfolio of 32 books includes petroleum engineering titles in drilling, pipeline, oil and gas, and safety. The GPC titles are for professionals in upstream oil and gas engineering and cover drilling, recovery methods, reservoir management, processing, and pipeline transmission.

Company: [Elsevier] [RELX] [Gulf Publishing Company]

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]

Apr 9, 2013

Elsevier acquires Mendeley

Elsevier announced the acquisition of Mendeley, a London-based company that operates a global research management and collaboration platform. Researchers worldwide use Mendeley's desktop and cloud-based tools to manage and annotate documents, create citations and bibliographies, collaborate on research projects and network with fellow academics.

Company: [Elsevier] [RELX] [Mendeley]

Jan 8, 2013

Elsevier acquires Aureus Sciences

Elsevier acquired Aureus Sciences, a Paris, France based privately held company that provides databases and information tools to pharmaceutical and biotech companies. Formed in 2002, Aureus Sciences gathers unique and high quality quantitative biological activity data for major therapeutic drug targets. This content enables researchers to identify the most promising compounds, repurpose existing compounds and identify targets with which the new compounds might interact.

Company: [Elsevier] [RELX] [ Aureus Sciences]

Jan 7, 2013

Elsevier acquires Knovel

Elsevier announced the acquisition of Knovel Corp. New York City-based Knovel provides a web-based application that integrates technical information with analytical and search tools to drive innovation and deliver answers engineers can trust. Founded in 2001, Knovel has developed a deep knowledge of the engineering community and is a valuable tool for thousands of engineers and students in more than 700 corporations and engineering schools worldwide. Knovel integrates information and data from more than 100 engineering societies and publishers and makes it highly searchable and interactive so that engineers can easily manipulate the data they find and use it in other engineering applications.

Company: [Elsevier] [Knovel Corporation] [RELX]

Sep 10, 2012

Elsevier acquires ExitCare

Elsevier acquired ExitCare, an enterprise-wide solution for patient education and discharge instructions. ExitCare provides peer-reviewed patient education and discharge instructions to support clinicians, empower patients and help providers meet their patients' educational needs.

Company: [Elsevier] [RELX] [ExitCare]

Aug 15, 2012

Elsevier Acquires Atira and its Pure research information system

Elsevier announced the acquisition of Atira, a provider of software and tools that help academic institutions and researchers manage and improve their research outcomes. Atira complements Elsevier's SciVal by expanding the scope of data to report on research activities across an academic institution, and by broadening the range of tools and dashboards to analyse those data. Atira's main product, Pure, is a flexible research information system that enables the planning, evaluation and reporting of research activities.

Company: [Elsevier] [Atira] [RELX]

Jul 2012

Taylor & Francis acquires Focal Press from Elsevier

Company: [Taylor and Francis] [Elsevier] [RELX]

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]

Jan 12, 2012

Elsevier acquires QUOSA

Elsevier acquired QUOSA a content management and workflow productivity solutions provider for researchers and information managers. QUOSA's current solutions and platform, including its Information Manager and Virtual Library, will continue to be supported. QUOSA's technological capabilities will be developed into Elsevier-branded solutions, raising the efficiency of the search and discovery process. They will also allow researchers and information professionals to manage information more efficiently at the various stages of the research workflow including organizing, archiving and sharing.

Company: [Elsevier] [RELX] [QUOSA]

Dec 8, 2011

Elsevier acquires Ariadne Genomics

Elsevier acquiredf the business assets of Ariadne Genomics, a provider of pathway analysis tools and semantic technologies for life science researchers. Ariadne will be integrated with Elsevier's Corporate Markets division.

Company: [Elsevier] [RELX] [Ariadne Genomics]

Sep 26, 2011

Reed Elsevier acquires Accuity Holdings from Investcorp for £343 million

Reed Elsevier announced today that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire the entire issued share capital of Accuity Holdings Inc. from Investcorp, a global investment firm, for a consideration of £343m payable in cash. Accuity will be integrated with Bankers' Almanac and will share the combined data assets with LexisNexis Risk Solutions.

Company: [RELX] [LexisNexis Risk Solutions] [Accuity Holdings]

Jun 30, 2011

Reed Business Information acquires Ascend

Reed Business Information, the business information division of Reed Elsevier, acquired the entire issued share capital of Ascend Worldwide Group Holdings Limited. Ascend will be integrated with RBI's aerospace information and data services business, Flightglobal.

Company: [RELX] [Reed Business Information] [Ascend]

May 9, 2011

Elsevier acquires Fisterra.Com

Elsevier acquired Fisterra.com, an award winning, widely used e-clinical reference solution in Spain. Fisterra was launched in 2002 by two primary care doctors and a medical librarian in response to the need for an online short answer Spanish language reference solution to help primary care physicians. Fisterra.com provides access to Fisterrae, an advanced e-clinical reference solution that integrates support resources for health professionals in a local language platform. Fisterrae is written by doctors and pharmacists and is kept permanently up to date by following medical journals, reviews by the Cochrane Library and the most important databases of clinical practice guidelines.

Company: [Elsevier] [RELX]

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 18, 2010

Omnicom Group acquires Excerpta Medica from Elsevier

Omnicom Group's Diversified Agency Services has acquired Amsterdam-based medical communications agency Excerpta Medica from Elsevier, a division of Reed Elsevier Group plc. Excerpta Medica will become a division of DAS's Adelphi, a group of businesses that provide multiperspective healthcare solutions to the pharmaceutical industry. Excerpta will continue to operate as an independent business, with offices in Amsterdam, New Jersey and London.

Company: [RELX] [Elsevier] [Excerpta Medica]

Jun 9, 2010

Elsevier acquires Collexis

Elsevier acquired assets from Collexis Holdings, a leading developer of semantic technology and knowledge discovery software. The combination of Elsevier's content and Collexis' semantic technology will provide institutions and researchers new ways to collaborate, showcase accomplishments and improve grant related workflow efficiencies.

Company: [Elsevier] [RELX] [Collexis]

Jan 5, 2010

Elsevier acquires NurseSquared

Elsevier acquired NurseSquared, the leading electronic health record (EHR) training product in the market that teaches students how to properly document using a simulated EHR. The NurseSquared training tool allows Elsevier to offer a more complete curriculum solution, including an EHR training tool, to academic customers.

Company: [Elsevier] [RELX] [NurseSquared]

Nov 11, 2009

Erik Engstrom appointed as Chief Executive Officer of Reed Elsevier

Reed Elsevier announces that Ian Smith has resigned as Chief Executive Officer by mutual agreement and has with effect from today stepped down from the Boards. Erik Engstrom, currently CEO of Elsevier, has been appointed Chief Executive Officer of Reed Elsevier with immediate effect.

Company: [RELX]

Jan 20, 2009

Elsevier acquires William Andrew Publishing

Elsevier acquired the publishing assets of William Andrew, Inc. Over the last 18 months, Elsevier and William Andrew have built a valuable strategic alliance including print distribution of William Andrew books globally outside of North America and electronic distribution of William Andrew content on Elsevier's globally renowned electronic publishing platforms: Science Direct and Engineering Village.

Company: [Elsevier] [RELX] [William Andrew Publishing]

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]

Sep 19, 2008

Reed Elsevier acquires ChoicePoint for $4.1 billion

Reed Elsevier acquires ChoicePoint for a total cost of $4.1 billion. ChoicePoint brings to Reed Elsevier's risk management business a leading position in providing unique data and analytics to the insurance sector and highly complementary products in the screening, authentication and public records areas.

Company: [RELX] [LexisNexis Risk Solutions] [ChoicePoint]

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]

Oct 2007

Symyx Technologies, Inc. acquires MDL from Elsevier

Company: [MDL Information Systems] [Elsevier] [RELX]

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]

Oct 13, 2006

Reed Elsevier sells Harcourt Education, Harcourt Trade and Greenwood-Heinemann Divisions to Houghton Mifflin Company

Houghton Mifflin Company and its parent, Education Media and Publishing Group Limited, today announced that Houghton Mifflin has completed the acquisition of the Harcourt Education, Harcourt Trade and Greenwood-Heinemann divisions from Reed Elsevier

Company: [RELX] [Elsevier]

May 26, 2005

Reed Elsevier acquires Netter publications from MediMedia

Reed Elsevier announces binding offer to acquire MediMedia's European and US Netter professional medical publishing businesses for €270

Company: [RELX] [Elsevier] [MediMedia]

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]

2004

Elsevier launches SCOPUS

Scopus - covering 14,000 scientific titles plus 167 million scientific web pages, and delivering the largest collection of abstracts ever collected online in one place, going back forty years - is now commercially available for trial and sale to any institution.

Company: [Elsevier] [RELX]

Feb 20, 2002

Cahners Business Information renamed to Reed Business Information

Cahners Business Information today announced it is changing its name to Reed Business Information (RBI), effective immediately.

Company: [RELX] [Reed Business Information]

2002

Reed Elsevier becomes Elsevier

Company: [Elsevier] [RELX]

2001

Cambridge Information Group acquires Bowker

Cambridge Information Group acquired R.R. Bowker, a unit of Cahners Business Information, from Reed Elsevier.

Company: [ProQuest] [Bowker] [RELX]

2001

Reed Elsevier sells Official Airline Guides to Electra Partners

Company: [RELX]

Apr 1999

Elsevier acquires Cell Press from Benjamin Lewin

Company: [RELX] [Elsevier]

May 1998

Reed Elsevier acquires Matthew Bender for $1.65 Billion

Reed Elsevier acquires Matthew Bender for $1.65 Billion from Times Mirror

Company: [RELX] [Matthew Bender]

1998

Reed Elsevier acquires The Beilstein Database, BioMedNet, ChemWeb, Engineering Information from Current Science Group.

Company: [Elsevier] [RELX]

1998

Cahners Business Information established

Reed Elsevier establishes Cahners Business Information by combining Cahners Publications, Chilton Publications, and Reed Travel Group

Company: [Cahners Business Information] [RELX]

Jun 23, 1997

Reed Elsevier acquires Chilton Business Group for $447 Million

Reed Elsevier acquired the three principal divisions of Chilton Business Group from ABC, a subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company, for a cash consideration of $447 million. This acquisition is an important extension of Reed Elsevier's position as a leading business-to-business publisher in the United States.

Company: [RELX] [Chilton Business Group]

Mar 24, 1997

Reed Elsevier acquires MDL Information Systems

Elsevier Science to acquire MDL Information Systems for $320 Million. MDL Information Systems, Inc. is a leading provider of integrated solutions that accelerate high-throughput discovery and development in the life science and chemical industries. MDL's software systems, databases and services help customers manage, communicate, and analyse the volumes of data associated with modern R&D workflows. With applications supporting chemical and biological information management, bioinformatics, automated synthesis and screening, and materials science, MDL is committed to keeping pace with new technologies in the chemical, pharmaceutical, and biotechnology industries.

Company: [Elsevier] [RELX] [MDL Information Systems]

Mar 1997

Elsevier launched ScienceDirect

Elsevier launched ScienceDirect, its platform of peer-reviewed scholarly literature.

Company: [Elsevier] [RELX]

1997

Elsevier acquires JAI Press

Company: [RELX] [Elsevier]

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]

Aug 1993

Reed Elsevier acquires Official Airline Guides from Maxwell Communication Corporation for $417 million

Company: [RELX]

Jan 1, 1993

Reed International merges with Elsevier NV to form Reed Elsevier PLC

Reed Elsevier came into existence on January 1, 1993 when Reed International P.L.C., a UK company, and Elsevier NV, a Dutch company, contributed all their businesses to two jointly owned companies; Reed Elsevier plc, an operating company and Elsevier Reed BV, a finance company. Reed Elsevier is the name used to refer to the combination of Reed International P.L.C. and Elsevier NV and the two jointly owned subsidiaries. Under the equalization arrangements agreed at the time of the merger, ordinary shareholders in Reed International P.L.C. and Elsevier NV enjoy substantially equivalent dividend and capital rights with respect to their ordinary shares in the net income and net assets of Reed Elsevier.

Company: [RELX] [Elsevier] [Reed International]

1992

Reed Elsevier acquires Parker Griffin Publishing Company

Company: [RELX] [Parker Griffin Publishing]

1991

Elsevier launches The University Licensing Project (TULIP)

Company: [Elsevier] [RELX]

1991

Elsevier acquires The Lancet from Hodder & Stoughton

Company: [RELX] [Elsevier]

1990

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

Company: [RELX] [LexisNexis Legal & Professional]

1987

Reed International acquires Octopus Publishing from William Heinemann for £540 million

Company: [RELX] [Reed International]

Sep 1986

Reed International acquires Technical Publishing Co. from Dun & Bradstreet for $250 million

Cahners Publishing Company, part of Reed International, acquired Technical Publishing Co. from Dun & Bradstreet for $250 million

Company: [RELX] [Elsevier] [Technical Publishing]

1985

Reed International acquires R.R. Bowker

Company: [RELX] [Cahners Publishing Company] [R.R. Bowker]

1981

Elsevier acquires Focal Press

Company: [Elsevier] [RELX]

1979

Elsevier acquires Congressional Information Services

Company: [Elsevier] [RELX]

1979

Elsevier acquires Congressional Information Service and Greenwood Publishing

Company: [RELX] [Elsevier] [Congressional Information Service]

1977

Reed International acquires Cahners Publications

Reed International previously acquired a 29 percent stake in Cahners in 1970.

Company: [RELX] [Reed International]

1972

Excerpta Medica acquired by Elsevier

Company: [RELX] [Elsevier] [Excerpta Medica]

1971

Elsevier acquires Excerpta Medica

Elsevier acquires the medical abstracting service and databank Excerpta Medica.

Company: [RELX] [Elsevier]

Jan 1, 1970

Elsevier Science Publishers acquires North Holland Publishing Company

Company: [RELX] [Elsevier] [North Holland Publishing Company]

1970

Reed acquires International Publishing Corporation

International Publishing Corporation had previously acquired Butterworths in 1965

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

1967

Ohio Bar Automated Research launched by Data Corporation

Company: [LexisNexis Legal & Professional] [RELX]

1880

Elsevier was founded as a small Dutch publisher (NV Uitgeversmaatschappij Elsevier)

Elsevier founded in Rotterdam by five Dutch booksellers, led by Jacobus George Robbers.

Company: [Elsevier] [RELX]