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Law company Elevate today announced it has secured a $25 million minority investment from Kayne Partners to scale operations to meet increasing customer demand and to enhance its Cael enterprise legal management software.
This investment brings the amount of capital deployed by Elevate to almost $60 million.
“Elevate is addressing a critical need in a sizable market, with a new business model, just as change is beginning to take hold in the legal sector.” says Leon Chen, Partner, Kayne Partner Funds, who has joined Elevate’s Board of Directors.
“This investment will support our future growth plans, continuing the momentum created by our series of recent acquisitions,” says Elevate Founder and Executive Chairman Liam Brown, referring to the five businesses Elevate acquired in late 2018 and early 2019.
Elevate’s recent acquisitions include legal AI technology and consultancy LexPredict, contract lifecycle management (CLM) provider Sumati Group, UK NewLaw legal resourcing firm Halebury, law company Yerra Solutions, and Hong Kong-based flexible legal resourcing business Cognatio Law. The acquisitions were funded in part by $25 million financing from a credit fund managed by Morgan Stanley Expansion Capital, the growth-focused private investment platform within Morgan Stanley Investment Management.
“Elevate now provides services to over one hundred Global 1000 corporations and over twenty global law firms,” says Brown. “This reflects the accelerating trend for law departments, law firms, and law companies to work together to more efficiently to meet the growing legal demands in the business world. Our AI-powered enterprise legal management software platform supports process transformation for some of the most innovative global companies and law firms in the world.”
Elevate has grown by an average of 65 percent per annum for the past five years, with 2019 sales forecasted to exceed $75 million. Elevate plans to leverage its partnership with Kayne Partners to accelerate this growth by continuing to bring new and innovative solutions to the legal sector.
Middlemarch Partners, through its subsidiary Middlemarch Securities, LLC, served as the financial advisor to Elevate in the Kayne Partners transaction.
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