Navigant Acquires Ignited Discovery

Navigant, a business risk consulting firm to the insurance and financial services industry, reports that it has acquired Ignited Discovery, an electronic evidence and discovery services provider. The Ignited Discovery team brings technology-focused expertise in collections, processing and hosting services to the firm’s lineup of offerings. Combined with Navigant’s existing Technology Services practice, the new relationship creates enhanced discovery services for clients dealing with anti-trust matters, SEC investigations, class actions and other data intensive high risk situations. The team complements Navigant’s strong New York and Washington DC presence.

“Seismic changes are occurring in the litigation support and eDiscovery marketplace. Corporate and law firm clients are demanding not only end-to-end, cost effective and predictable e-discovery capabilities, but also highly flexible custom applications,” said Jeff Green, VP, Navigant Dispute & Investigative Services. “With the Ignited Discovery team, we have strengthened our data collections, processing and hosting capabilities in order to support clients in managing petabytes of increasingly diverse and disperse data. The enhanced practice will strengthen our ability to manage the largest data sets across the Electronic Discovery Reference Model (EDRM) spectrum.”

Founded in 2003, Ignited Discovery is a provider of e-Discovery services, specializing in integrated collections, processing, hosting and productions.

Navigant’s Technology Services practice works with companies and their counsel on event driven and long-term data management issues. The Technology Services group is part of Navigant’s Disputes and Investigations practice, which comprises more than 500 dedicated professionals who work with companies and their legal counsel to provide litigation consulting, investigative assistance and expert testimony in complex disputes, forensic accounting and regulatory matters.

No additional transaction details were released.