UK case management specialist Opus 2 has agreed to purchase Irish electronic document bundle provider Bundledocs.
The London-based firm says the acquisition will boost its ability to cater for the entire dispute lifecycle and support law firms advising on cross-border disputes.
Bundledocs provides legal teams with an automated electronic court and document-bundling tool, helping lawyers swiftly arrange a high volume of case documents into an organised electronic stack.
The agreement will add 1,900 clients spanning 35 countries, including more than 100 of the UK’s top 200 law firms, Opus 2 said.
Greg Blackman, CEO at Opus 2, said: “We’re excited to welcome the Bundledocs team to Opus 2. Our growth story is one of innovation, but it’s always through the lens of doing what’s best for law firms. That’s exactly the reason for this acquisition; by working together, we’ll ensure our clients have every possible advantage and efficiency.”
Brian Kenneally, co-founder and CEO of Bundledocs, said joining forces with Opus 2 represented a “natural step” for the firm. “We share a deep understanding of the legal sector and a focus on building practical, secure software that makes complex legal workflows simpler,” he said.
“Bundledocs has grown significantly as both a business and technology offering, and this next chapter gives us an opportunity to build on that progress while continuing to innovate for our customers.”
Last month, Opus 2 Ingenuity was launched. The firm’s agentic AI framework for legal work is designed mainly for litigation and arbitration teams. Its range of abilities includes helping to identify relationships between documents, while its AI spans an entire case rather than treating each document as a separate file.
The firm says that it is trusted by 98% of the Am Law 50, and 96% of the top 50 global firms, while legal teams use Ingenuity to collaborate on over 1,800 matters per month.
The agentic tool operates within Opus 2, a litigation and legal-work platform that combines case management, hearing technology, collaboration and AI and is primarily focused on disputes. It is Opus 2’s third acquisition over the past five years. Last year it agreed to purchase Dutch litigation and disputes AI software start-up Uncover and in 2021 it bought chambers management software provider Bar Squared.
That agreement was followed shortly by private equity firm Astorg acquiring a majority stake in Opus 2 from Five Arrows Principal Investments and Graham Smith-Bernal, the company's founder.
Earlier this week, alternative legal services provider Epiq agreed to buy US data-breach response company Canopy.
The New York-based ALSP said the deal would combine its global scale and cyber expertise with Canopy’s platform, helping companies manage cyber incidents more efficiently.
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