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 "name": "Who has bought UK law firms, from their own announcements",
 "title": "Who has bought UK law firms, from their own announcements",
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 "url": "https://selllawfirmdatatoai.com/datasets/lawfirm-acquirers/",
 "csv": "https://selllawfirmdatatoai.com/datasets/lawfirm-acquirers.csv",
 "markdown": "https://selllawfirmdatatoai.com/datasets/lawfirm-acquirers/index.md",
 "computed_at": "2026-10-28",
 "license": "https://selllawfirmdatatoai.com/terms",
 "headline": "3 UK law firm acquisitions, each quoted from the buyer's or the firm's own announcement, read 28 October 2026.",
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  "3 UK law firm acquisitions, each quoted from the buyer's or the firm's own announcement, read 28 October 2026.",
  "What kind of buyer it says it is, by deal: an investor-backed group of regional firms 1 of 3, not stated 1 of 3, a software platform buying a law firm 1 of 3 (3 deals, read 28 October 2026).",
  "What it bought, in its own words, by deal: stated 3 of 3 (3 deals, read 28 October 2026).",
  "The price, by deal: not stated 3 of 3 (3 deals, read 28 October 2026)."
 ],
 "citation": "\"Who has bought UK law firms, from their own announcements\", updated 2026-10-28, https://selllawfirmdatatoai.com/datasets/lawfirm-acquirers/.",
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  "named_sources": 5
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    "name": "Carta, buying Avantia Law",
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       }
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      "text": "I’m so excited to announce that Carta has acquired Avantia Law!!!",
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    "name": "Knights, buying Moore Barlow commercial and private wealth",
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        "document": "Knights, acquisition of Moore Barlow commercial and private wealth business",
        "url": "https://www.knightsplc.com/knights-news/2026/knights-expands-across-the-south-east-with-acquisition-of-moore-barlow-s-commercial-and-private-wealth-business/",
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        "value": "not-stated",
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        "url": "https://www.fsp-law.com/field-seymour-parkes-fsp-joins-the-lawfront-group/",
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        "document": "Field Seymour Parkes joins the Lawfront Group",
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   "document": "Field Seymour Parkes joins the Lawfront Group",
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   "answer": "stated",
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   "status": "stated",
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  {
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   "url": "https://www.fsp-law.com/field-seymour-parkes-fsp-joins-the-lawfront-group/",
   "document": "Field Seymour Parkes joins the Lawfront Group",
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   "status": "not-stated",
   "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28",
   "quote": "Nothing on this announcement answers it (7,760 characters of announcement text, read 2026-10-28).",
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  {
   "url": "https://carta.com/uk/en/blog/avantia-law-acquisition/",
   "label": "Carta, introducing Carta Law (fka Avantia Law)",
   "license": "the publisher's the buyers' and the acquired firms' own announcements, cited for reporting",
   "class": "primary-provider-own-site",
   "status": "read"
  },
  {
   "url": "https://www.knightsplc.com/knights-news/2026/knights-expands-across-the-south-east-with-acquisition-of-moore-barlow-s-commercial-and-private-wealth-business/",
   "label": "Knights, acquisition of Moore Barlow's commercial and private wealth business",
   "license": "the publisher's the buyers' and the acquired firms' own announcements, cited for reporting",
   "class": "primary-provider-own-site",
   "status": "read"
  },
  {
   "url": "https://www.fsp-law.com/field-seymour-parkes-fsp-joins-the-lawfront-group/",
   "label": "Field Seymour Parkes joins the Lawfront Group",
   "license": "the publisher's the buyers' and the acquired firms' own announcements, cited for reporting",
   "class": "primary-provider-own-site",
   "status": "read"
  },
  {
   "url": "https://www.clio.com/about/press/clio-signs-definitive-agreement-to-acquire-vlex/",
   "label": "Clio, agreement to acquire vLex",
   "license": "the publisher's the buyers' and the acquired firms' own announcements, cited for reporting",
   "class": "primary-provider-own-site",
   "status": "unread"
  },
  {
   "url": "https://www.clio.com/about/press/clio-completes-landmark-1b-vlex-acquisition-series-g-5b-valuation/",
   "label": "Clio, completes the vLex acquisition",
   "license": "the publisher's the buyers' and the acquired firms' own announcements, cited for reporting",
   "class": "primary-provider-own-site",
   "status": "unread"
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 ],
 "methodology": "Each deal's own the buyers' and the acquired firms' own announcements were read through estate-fetch and stored whole (sha256 on every row). For every announcement, three questions were answered from its own words: what kind of buyer it says it is, what it bought, in its own words, the price. Every stated answer carries the sentence it rests on, checked against the stored text; 'not stated' means the announcement read does not address the question. A deal with several announcements reads 'varies' where they disagree. 3 deals, 3 announcements.",
 "embed": "<figure style=\"margin:0;padding:16px;border:1px solid #d0d0d0;background:#ffffff\"><blockquote style=\"margin:0 0 8px;background:#ffffff\">3 UK law firm acquisitions, each quoted from the buyer's or the firm's own announcement, read 28 October 2026.</blockquote><figcaption style=\"background:#ffffff\"><a href=\"https://selllawfirmdatatoai.com/datasets/lawfirm-acquirers/\" style=\"background:#ffffff\">Who has bought UK law firms, from their own announcements, selllawfirmdatatoai.com</a></figcaption></figure>"
}