Consilio has bought icourts, the Australian firm behind electronic evidence management for some of the country's largest Royal Commissions and public inquiries.
It answers a demand Consilio says it is seeing in the market. Organisations facing complex matters want local expertise, global scale and specialist capability from one partner, rather than assembling them case by case.
It is the second Australian acquisition in Consilio's local build-out. The company previously integrated elaw and established dedicated data centres in Sydney and Melbourne.
icourts works with Commonwealth prosecution bodies, New Zealand regulators, Australian federal and state Royal Commissions, Australian banks and top-tier law firms. Its practice spans forensic technology, eDiscovery, evidence management, ecourts and technology development.
Those capabilities move into Consilio's Australian operations. Clients of both companies gain access to a wider pool of local expertise and delivery resources across legal, regulatory and investigative matters.
The stated rationale is the ability to handle both domestic matters and cross-border work from the same local base. Consilio describes the combination as strengthening its capacity to support complex Royal Commissions and large-scale investigations.
"This acquisition reflects our confidence in the Australian market and adds further scale and broader capabilities to our Australian business," said Drew Macaulay, Managing Director, APAC and EMEA for Consilio.
"Rebecca and her team have built an outstanding reputation supporting some of Australia's most complex Royal Commissions, public inquiries and digital court proceedings. icourts' expertise complements our existing capabilities very well."
Rebecca Grant, founder and chief executive of icourts, said the deal gave her clients access to global expertise and expanded capabilities while preserving local service.
"Joining Consilio marks an exciting new chapter for our team and our clients," Grant said. "Consilio provides the ideal platform to build on what we've created at icourts."
Onshore hosting is part of the pitch
Consilio operates across North America, Europe, Asia and Australia, delivering through its Aurora Legal Intelligence Suite alongside technology from third-party providers. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
The Sydney and Melbourne data centres matter to the government and regulated work icourts handles. Evidence sets drawn from Commonwealth agencies and financial institutions generally carry hosting and access conditions that rule out offshore processing.
Consilio's Aurora suite covers eDiscovery and legal operations, privilege generation and detection, guided and native AI review, summarisation and investigation tooling. The company also runs Sightline for eDiscovery and legal hold.
icourts describes its own work as helping clients gain insights from raw data with expertise, transparency and flexibility. It says it delivers tested and defensible solutions to data and information challenges.
Consilio describes itself as the world's largest AI legal data technology provider. It delivers through expert-led teams operating across North America, Europe, Asia and Australia.
The company positions its offer around managing risk, controlling cost and improving outcomes across both complex matters and everyday legal operations. Its earlier Australian move brought elaw into the same operation.
The company describes the acquisition as another step in a long-term growth strategy for Australia, in a market it says continues to evolve rapidly.