Advania snaps up smartvokat in European automation push

This comes shortly after the firm’s UK CEO teased more acquisitions across the continent

Advania has bought out German system house smartvokat to strengthen its legal and compliance service delivery transformation capabilities across Europe.

The Düsseldorf-based organisation advises international enterprises to help them modernise their business-critical processes in legal, compliance, and contract management.

Advania will use newly acquired company’s experience in digital strategies, workflow-based solutions, and AI-enabled consultancy services to enhance its transformation and automation offering across Europe.

In addition to the DACH region, the VAR consolidate its capabilities in legal and compliance service delivery transformation across Northern Europe, the UK, and Ireland, while broadening its reach in implementations of ServiceNow, iManage, and other platforms for the legal domain.

smartvokat will join Advania's transformation & automation business unit in Sweden.

"smartvokat has built a reputation for innovation and excellence in modernising legal and compliance processes,” said Henrik Foyn-Laukvik, chief acquisition officer at Advania.

“Their expertise is highly complementary to Advania, and together we will be able to support customers in business-critical areas while also accelerating the use of AI in this domain.”

This comes shortly after James Hardy, the company’s new UK CEO, told CRN that the business is “always open to acquisitions” to fuel its organic development.

He noted that buyouts, such as the one of Swedish high-performance computing (HPC) and AI infrastructure platform Gompute in August, add capabilities across all territories.

“All of the countries across Advania get to yield the value that we can hold for our clients across the board,” he explained.

“They're very meaningful and purposeful acquisitions and based on the market and where our clients are today.”

In addition to Gompute, the firm has also purchased British reseller and solutions provider CCS Media, as well as The AI Framework and Visuell Teknik in the Nordics within the last 12 months.

The organisation’s UK arm ranks number 48 in CRN’s Top VARs list.