TA Associates is a growth private equity firm. Focused on targeted sectors within five industries technology, healthcare, financial services, consumer, and business services. The firm invests in profitable, growing companies with opportunities for sustained growth.

TA Associates

GI Partners is an alternative investment management firm that caters to middle-market companies with private equity investments. It mainly focuses on four sectors: technology, media, and telecommunications; healthcare, retail, and leisure; and business and financial services.

GI Partners

Harvest Partners is a private equity firm that caters to the middle market companies. It offers its service for business services and consumer; healthcare and industrial services; and manufacturing and distribution industries. Harvest Partners was founded by Harvey Wertheim and Harvey Mallement in 1981. It is based in New York.

Harvest Partners

MRI Software

MRI Software is a provider of innovative real estate software applications and hosted solutions. MRI’s comprehensive and flexible technology platform coupled with an open and connected ecosystem meets the unique needs of real estate businesses-from property-level management and accounting to investment modeling and analytics for the global commercial and residential markets. A pioneer of the real estate software industry, MRI develops lasting client relationships based on nearly five decades of expertise and insight. Through leading solutions and a rich partner ecosystem, MRI gives organizations the freedom to transform the way communities live, work and play while elevating their business and gaining a competitive edge.

Office Amenities Don't Fully Align with Employee Priorities, According to Survey by MRI Software and CoreNet Global

Promises increased productivity, cost-efficiency, and competitiveness in the legal industry

LegalTech

Platforms that connect lawyers to clients (includes online listing, reputation, comparison, and booking systems) and those that support networking among lawyers.

Includes tools for intelligently extracting information from documents and flagging anomalies, the automated creation and simplification of legal documents, filing and serving documents online, and exchanging documents for discovery. Also includes providers of white-labeled digital legal documents and notarization tools that allow the notarization of documents online, assuring their security, authenticity, and integrity.

Tools to manage and digitize the legal practice of individual lawyers and law firms. Features include intake management, legal case/project management, team and client management, team collaboration, client communication and engagement, document storage systems, time and expense tracking, and billing and invoicing.

Includes platforms that provide legal content from various publishers; tools that support legal teams with conventional and contextual search of relevant case law and authoritative sources; and tools that search, analyze, and organize copious numbers of documents and large datasets. AI-based legal research systems replicate the work of a human legal research assistant and are referred to as AI lawyers/attorneys, digital lawyers/attorneys, or virtual lawyers/attorneys. Analytics tools include those that support lawyers with tracking trial cases, receiving email alerts for cases, and predicting trial timelines, along with those that mine big data to determine lawyers' success rates, when to settle, and when to press the advantage. It also includes tools for corporations that predict the outcomes of litigation.

Includes tools to manage large volumes of data; identify key issues for litigation, internal investigations, and compliance projects; and select relevant web content for use as evidence.

Software solutions that support regulatory compliance. Includes platforms that promote compliance among employees by providing simplified summaries of applicable legislation on-demand, and those that support compliance teams with tracking changes in legislation, sharing and tracking documents within the organization, and collecting evidence. IP/trademark management platforms include those that protect brands from online counterfeiting, digital piracy, and distribution fraud by scouring online marketplaces and social networks, along with those that offer simplified licensing solutions using digital rights technology.

Includes platforms that offer contract lifecycle management from their creation, negotiation, compliance, review, and approval, to execution, tracking, and monitoring. They can automate the processing of routine contracts with a high degree of accuracy and may include technology to organize, understand, and extract data from contracts. Also comprises tools for identity verification, electronic signatures, electronic registered delivery, and electronic time stamp.

Includes commoditized law solutions and do-it-yourself legal services for consumers (individuals, families, and business owners), as alternatives to engaging a lawyer or law firm. Examples include platforms that aid with immigration and asylum applications, consumer claims, class actions, closing funding rounds, and drafting simple contracts, wills, and divorce documents. Litigation finance platforms facilitate third-party funding for litigation. Such pre-settlement funding allows victims to pay their legal fees while awaiting a resolution.

Companies that use GenAI as a core part of their product offering for legal tech

Platforms, apps, and cards to keep the corporate wallet in check

Business Expense Management

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<div>
 Mesh Payments, a worldwide platform for corporate travel and expense management, has collaborated with MRI Software, a provider of property management platform, for the creation of a cohesive spend management solution aimed at real estate companies.
 This integration merges the expense management features of Mesh with the Property Management X platform from MRI, providing real estate firms with instant spend control, support for various currencies, and built-in compliance. The solution allows MRI's clients to automate their travel and expense processes and supports multiple travel management corporations depending on regional requirements.
</div> Analyst QuickTake: 
 The partnership is a strategic move for Mesh, enhancing its offerings in the spend management sector, particularly within the real estate industry. This is in line with a growing trend in the business expense management sector, with companies expanding their portfolios into niche markets through targeted partnerships. For example, in <a href="https: 
//sp-edge.com/updates/33638"> September 2024 </a> , Paymerang collaborated with Veracross to provide AP automation solutions tailored for K-12 schools and with M3 in <a href="https: 
//sp-edge.com/updates/28945"> April 2024 </a> to optimize accounting processes for the hospitality sector, specifically hoteliers.&nbsp;

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