Oakley invests in global legal information platform, vLex

London, United Kingdom , Sept. 05, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — vLex, an award-winning on-line subscription platform providing quick access to the most important assortment of legal information on a single service, receives funding from pan-European non-public fairness investor, Oakley Capital (“Oakley”). This new partnership is fueled by a joint dedication to ship world-class legal know-how to a global market value $21bln.

London, UK. September fifth, 2022. — Oakley Capital (“Oakley”), the pan-European non-public fairness investor, is happy to announce that Oakley Capital Origin Fund is partnering with the founders of vLex, a cloud-based legal information subscription platform. 

Founded by brothers Lluis and Angel Faus and headquartered in London, Miami and Barcelona, vLex gives over two million customers with entry to a web based library of global legal and regulatory information, together with case regulation, laws, journals, and dockets from over 100 international locations. vLex’s scalable and sensible information ingestion course of, coupled with AI-powered search engine performance, makes analysis and evaluation quicker and simpler, growing productiveness for customers. The firm’s various buyer base contains regulation corporations, universities and regulation faculties, authorities companies, and company enterprises throughout Europe, Africa, Asia, Oceania, the Caribbean, and the Americas.

vLex is worthwhile and has persistently generated double-digit income development in current years due to sturdy administration, a differentiated product providing and market tailwinds. The global LegalTech market is value $21 billion and rising as legal information customers digitalise their business fashions additional, and amid the rising complexity and internationalisation of legal guidelines and laws.

Oakley’s partnership with vLex builds on the agency’s important experience in supporting digital-first, information and information platforms together with TechInsights, the world’s authoritative information companies platform for the global semiconductor business. It can also be Oakley’s fourth platform deal in Iberia, following the agency’s investments in property portal, idealista, business software program supplier, Grupo Primavera, and promoting know-how disruptor, Seedtag. Oakley’s newest funding will assist vLex’s administration speed up their strategic objective of constructing a cheap chief in the fragmented marketplace for legal analysis, by natural development and M&A. 

Oakley Capital Founder and Managing Partner, Peter Dubens, commented: 

“vLex has all the hallmarks of an Oakley deal: a fast-growing, disruptive business model in a niche sector, led by ambitious business founders. We look forward to partnering with Lluis and Angel to help them build a successful product in the global market for legal information.”

vLex Co-Founder and CEO, Lluis Faus stated:

“Oakley has a strong track record of helping successful, tech-enabled businesses grow, through internationalisation, product optimisation and buy-and-build, both in Spain and abroad. We  particularly liked their entrepreneurial ethos and heritage, and look forward to working with the Oakley team as we deliver on our strategic objectives for vLex.”

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About Oakley Capital 

Founded in 2002 and with €5 billion AuM, Oakley Capital is a pan-European non-public fairness agency backing formidable development corporations throughout three core sectors – Technology, Consumer and Education. Oakley is ready to ship differentiated funding alternatives and superior returns by leveraging its entrepreneurial mindset and deep sector experience. The Oakley workforce works intently with a novel community of entrepreneurs and profitable administration groups to assist supply main, proprietary alternatives and acquire priceless insights into the companies in which it invests. Its capability to beat complexity, and a versatile strategy to worth creation, permits Oakley to help its portfolio corporations to realize sustainable development.

About vLex

vLex is a number one supplier of award-winning know-how and global legal information, offering entry to complete main and secondary collections from over 100 international locations, on one clever analysis platform. Founded over 20 years in the past, vLex gives a cutting-edge service for hundreds of legal professionals, regulation corporations, authorities departments, and regulation faculties all over the world. With a workforce of over 200 legal professionals, engineers, business executives, and editorial specialists, vLex strives to ship bespoke know-how that enhances analysis and the connectivity of tens of millions of editorially enriched legal paperwork.

To be taught extra, obtain vLex’s on-line brochure right now. 

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• Oakley invests in global legal information platform, vLex