Today Thomson Reuters and Lexis Nexis released almost simultaneous announcements that they were acquiring specialty legal information companies.
TR announced the acquisition of PLC Practical Law Company and Lexis Nexis announced the acquisition of Knowledge Mosaic. Today’s post will focus on the TR/PLC deal.
TR and PLC
PLC is a private company based in the
There is nothing radical about a leading legal publisher jumping into the fierce competition for current awareness market share. What is radical in WK’s announcement is the casual, almost off- handed reference to “automatic copyright compliance.”
I have been noticing some positive changes at Wolters Kluwer for the past few months. I have had several conversations with Bob Lemmond the
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Lexis, ThomsonReuters and Wolters Kluwer CCH have been edging toward increasingly desperate measures in at attempt to coerce the
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