E-Disc Quick Hit: Epiq Acquires London Based e-Discovery Company

Kansas City Business Journal

Epiq Systems Inc. has expanded its London office by purchasing PinPoint Global Ltd. for an undisclosed amount.

In a release Monday, Epiq (Nasdaq: EPIQ), based in Kansas City, Kan., said that it is building its international electronic-discovery business through internal growth and acquisitions. Epiq develops software used in bankruptcies, class actions and other legal proceedings.

PinPoint offers an e-discovery service for legal and litigation support departments, corporate counsel and lawyers who want to extract evidence from electronic data and review it in a more flexible format.

PinPoint came to the United Kingdom as Diskcovery London in 2004, with 12 years of experience in the Asia Pacific region. It rebranded in September to PinPoint to reflect its European focus.

Epiq also said in the release that the staff of Effective Case Management Ltd., a rofessional services company based in the United Kingdom and specializing in ocument management for the U.K. legal profession since 1999, joined Epiq's U.K. rganization in February. A spokeswoman for Epiq couldn't be reached for comment.

"The international dimension of our electronic discovery business represents an attractive opportunity for additional growth and market leadership," Epiq Chairman and CEO Tom Olofson said in the release. "Increasingly, our major corporate and law firm clients require sophisticated support for cross-border, multilingual engagements that operate under high scrutiny and tight time frames."

Epiq ranks No. 23 on the Kansas City Business Journal's list of area public companies

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