Legal Information & Technology Services Suppliers in the UK 2007

Case & Practice Management, Document Management, Legal Publishers & Training Suppliers

The Definitive Guide to the Engine Room for Lawyers.

Information & technology solutions are key to the future competitiveness of the legal profession. This ground breaking business intelligence report quantifies and maps the dynamics of this complex B2B services market. Historical monopolies are giving way to new technology challenges, and the name of the game is now delivering productivity through client centric, matter centric and even document centric solutions.

A.R.K. Business Analysis Ltd understand this market better than most. The author of this Report has led major competition authority negotiations and analyses in the past into market definition, quantification and supplier positioning. A complex market facing many transformational market forces, while the solicitors and legal services market faces upheavals of its own, their suppliers also face some unique market forces.

What you will find here but nowhere else

• A brick built market size and trends analysis based on over 120 enterprises.
• A ten to fifteen year perspective - trends since '95 are spelt out and projections made to 2010.
• Market sector analyses by each different major type of competing supplier.
• Extensive historical perspective on the fundamentals of the legal market.
• M&A benchmarks examined on a consistent basis ove the long term with all key deals outlined.
• Profiles of over 50 key suppliers showing detailed market share trends per company.
• Unique Market Maps showing how the market and its sectors move over the 15 year analysis period.
• Unique and Authoritative Analysis

Key issues addressed include:

• Why do lawyers always complain of having monopolistic suppliers?
• What will Clementi reforms do to the market structure of legal services suppliers?
• What is the cost of entry to this market from scratch?
• Why are M&A deals happening and at what rates?
• Which suppliers are coasting, which are pushing water uphill, and which are transformational?
• Why are some companies' parents a help and others a hindrance?
• What is critical mass and who cares?

The Market Segments

The traditional segmentation of the market remains, namely:

Legal Publishing Suppliers, not just Lexis/Butterworths and West/Sweet & Maxwell, but also Chambers, Legalease, Complinet, Practical Law, Pendragon and others;

Case & Practice Management Suppliers such as Tikit, CS Group, Axxia, Visualfiles, ICSA and others;

Document Management Suppliers from Documentum to Companies House and MDA;

Training Suppliers, not just CLT, BPP, and the College of Law, but also some intriguing newcomers.

In addition market quantification also covers:

The Market's Value by Service Specialism, ie Corporate, Property, Dispute Resolution and Private Client, and The Market's Value by Solution Type, ie Publishing, CPM, DM and Training.

Acquisition Activity and Trends

The market is already heavily consolidated in most publishing sectors, and consolidating rapidly in technology sectors also, currently.  M&A and corporate finance issues are explained in layman's terms on a consistent basis.

M&A activity is analysed including the impact of recent activity and highlighting an increasingly polarised series of benchmarks.

Increasingly VC investors are playing a major role and the market power of new groups are mapped and projected to 2010.

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