Since thirteen or fourteen years is an eternity in the world of business cycles, here is a bit of history for the young ‘uns about an earlier merger/purchase. In 1998, at about the time of the Frankfurt Book Fair (early-mid October), Wolters Kluwer and Reed Elsevier announced a merger. This was pretty shocking news to
Today Exane BNP Paribas released an equity research report suggesting that the time may once again, be ripe for a Thomson Reuters/Wolters Kluwer merger. While the US legal publishing units Westlaw and CCH are not the main focus of this speculation, it is
Qualities of the best legal publishing mergers: Making 1 + 1 = 3 Back in September I posted a survey asking readers to vote for the best and worst mergers in the legal publishing industry. This was not a scientific survey nor did I have a way to guarantee against participation by employees of vendors themselves.
According to an Altman and Weil survey released this week, Law Firm Mergers Surge in 2011, law firm mergers for the first 9 months of 2011 exceeded the number of mergers for the same period in 2010 by 78%.
There is no shortage of additional sources to support this trend. Keynote Speakers at the two
The legal publishing industry has been in a state of continuous consolidation for the past 30 years. Here is your chance to vote on the best and the worst legal product acquisitions and company mergers.Click HERE to vote for the best and the worst legal publishing mergers. Voting will close on Sept. 23rd.
The synergy Between Bloomberg and BNA
A slight digression: The recent decades of consolidation in the legal publishing industry has resulted in the wholesale expatriation of control of American’s primary legal research content. (Lexis, born in Ohio is owned by Anglo-Dutch company, Reed
Jim Jones’s (Hildebrandt Institute) PLL Summit presentation “State of the Legal Market 2011” outlined a series of factors which combined with the financial downturn created the “perfect storm” of disruption in the legal marketplace. The Corporate Executive Board issued a report to member General Counsel that was recently reported in the press giving the “In
Esquire’s Senior Editor, A. J. Jacobs came to the Annual Private Law Libraries lunch meeting last Sunday in Philadelphia and served up his unique mix of insights about several issues at the