Pan-European MSP Advania has acquired smartvokat, a German-based specialist in digital transformation for the legal, risk, and compliance community. The acquisition strengthens Advania's Transformation & Automation offering in the Nordics, the UK, and Ireland.
Founded in Düsseldorf, smartvokat has established itself as a recognised advisor to international enterprises, helping modernise business-critical processes in legal, compliance, and contract management.
The team brings deep domain knowledge and experience in digital strategies, workflow-based solutions, and AI-enabled consultancy services that address corporate in-house teams who are facing increasingly complex regulatory and governance requirements.
The acquisition reflects Advania's ambition to build deep delivery expertise in selected growth areas, as smartvokat operates in a distinctive niche complementary to Advania's existing legal and compliance-focused client base, said Advania. By joining forces, Advania strengthens its position as a specialist partner in transforming legal and compliance service delivery, while continuing to broaden its expertise in implementations of ServiceNow, iManage and other leading platforms for the legal domain.
smartvokat will join Advania's Transformation & Automation business unit in Sweden, creating synergies with existing teams and enhancing the company's ability to deliver end-to-end solutions for compliance, legal operations, and risk management, including AI-driven capabilities.
"smartvokat has built a reputation for innovation and excellence in modernising legal and compliance processes. 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," said Henrik Foyn-Laukvik, chief acquisition officer, Advania.
smartvokat will continue serving its existing clients, while gaining access to Advania's broader service portfolio and delivery capacity.
In August, Advania acquired Gompute, a high-performance computing (HPC) and AI infrastructure platform. It was bought from Nordic data centre services firm atNorth.
The acquisition includes Gompute's teams in Sweden and Spain, who will continue their work as part of Advania Sweden. Gompute delivers a full stack solution for demanding HPC and AI workloads through private cloud services and scalable computing clusters. It serves enterprise clients in sectors including financial services, automotive, and computer-aided engineering (CAE).
This deal followed a number of other acquisitions in the last 18 months.
