Verlata Consulting (“Verlata”), a global legal technology consultancy serving law firms across Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, the United Kingdom, Japan, and Malaysia, and ActiveNav, a leading innovator in data discovery and information governance, today announced a strategic partnership to help law firms identify, govern, and secure unstructured client data across APAC and EMEA.
The partnership brings together Verlata’s deep legal operations expertise—including its recently established information governance practice focused on data stewardship, risk, and compliance—with ActiveNav Cloud, a platform purpose-built to discover unstructured data at scale and enable firms to take decisive action on their growing data estates.
Why now for this strategic partnership? The challenge that plagues firms of every size: matter documents that have leaked beyond the DMS into network file shares, cloud storage, local drives, and other unstructured repositories. ActiveNav Cloud discovers and classifies this content, then enables firms to remediate it, whether that means importing documents into NetDocuments for proper governance, disposing of them in accordance with retention policies, or securing them in place. As a long-standing NetDocuments Diamond Partner, Verlata is uniquely positioned to ensure this process integrates seamlessly with the document management environments their clients already rely on.
“This partnership is built on a shared understanding that data governance grown beyond a technology problem into an operational one,” said Peter Baumann, CEO of ActiveNav. “Verlata has spent years embedded in the day-to-day reality of how law firms work, and their new information governance practice is a natural extension of that expertise. For their clients, ActiveNav Cloud now provides continuous visibility into exactly where matter content lives outside the DMS and the ability to finally do something about it. For us, Verlata extends our reach into markets where demand for this capability is accelerating. It’s a partnership where both sides make the other meaningfully better.”
“Law firms invest heavily in document management systems, but the reality is that a significant volume of sensitive client data still ends up outside those systems ungoverned and often invisible,” said Jason Mills, CEO of Verlata Consulting. “With ActiveNav, we can finally give our clients a clear picture of that exposure and a practical path to resolving it. That’s been a missing piece in our consulting toolkit for some time. Our information governance team is already working with firms that understand data stewardship is no longer optional. This technology is what turns that conversation into measurable action.”
ActiveNav Cloud is designed for fully-scalable data discovery across repositories and the DMS. The platform provides a single, unified view into a firm’s unstructured data and provides actionable intelligence that enables them to enforce retention and governance policies across conduct cleanups and migrations, and ensure clean, curated datasets for AI initiatives. Combined with Verlata’s implementation expertise and consulting-led delivery model, the partnership provides firms with a complete, end-to-end approach to managing unstructured data risk.
The partnership is effective immediately, with joint solutions available to law firms across Verlata’s APAC and EMEA markets.
About ActiveNav
ActiveNav is a leading innovator in unstructured data discovery in the legal sector. Its flagship platform, ActiveNav Cloud, helps organizations achieve “Zero Dark Data” by discovering, classifying, and enabling action on unstructured data at scale. Trusted by law firms, financial services, and government organizations worldwide, ActiveNav integrates with leading repositories and document management systems to ensure sensitive content is always accounted for and properly governed. Learn more at activenav.com.
About Verlata Consulting
Verlata Consulting is a global legal technology consultancy that partners with ambitious law firms and corporate legal teams to streamline operations through cloud-based practice management, document management, automation, and information governance solutions. With offices across Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, the United Kingdom, Japan, and Malaysia, and a team where more than 70% have worked in law firms or legal technology companies, Verlata combines deep industry knowledge with hands-on consulting delivery. A multi-year NetDocuments Diamond Partner and APAC Partner of the Year, Verlata serves more than 500 clients worldwide. Learn more at verlata.com.
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