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Doctrine

private/RELX GroupLSE: RELX· $64.4B

RELX Group to acquire French Legaltech company Doctrine

Pre-proxyhigh confidence

Merger Arbeconomics, downside, days

Deal value

Per-share offer

Premium

Days to close

Term fee

Consideration
AnnouncedApr 28, 2026
Days outstanding80d
Expected close
Termination fee
Reverse term fee
Go-shop period
Fiduciary out
Financing condition
Debt commitment
Insider lock-up

No structured deal economics extracted yet. Re-run the scanner or fall back to the source filing below.


Timelineannounced → close
  1. Announced

    Apr 28, 2026

  2. Preliminary Proxy

  3. Definitive Proxy

  4. Record date

  5. Shareholder vote

  6. Expected close


Vote Mechanicsrecord / mailing / vote

No shareholder vote required for this transaction.


Regulatory & ConditionsHSR / EU / CFIUS / MAC

Closing conditions

  • Completion of applicable information and consultation procedures with relevant employee representative bodies
  • Customary regulatory consents

Closing Conditionsapprovals · vote · financing · lockups

No closing-condition data extracted.


Interloper Riskcompeting bids, activist filers

No competing-bidder, activist, or dissident-proxy signals in the database for this target.


Advisors

No advisor data on record for this deal.


Filing Timelineevery filing on this issuer
  1. Apr 28, 2026this filing

    RELX Group to acquire French Legaltech company Doctrine


Sources

RELX Group announced an agreement to acquire Doctrine, a Paris-based legal AI platform serving 27,000 legal professionals across France, Italy, Germany, and Spain. The acquisition is intended to strengthen authoritative legal AI workflows in France and across Europe, combining Doctrine's AI-powered research and drafting tools with LexisNexis's global capabilities. The transaction is subject to applicable information and consultation procedures with employee representative bodies and customary regulatory consents; financial terms were not disclosed.

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