Episode 68: Litera CEO Avaneesh Marwaha on Growth During A Crisis

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Even as the COVID-19 pandemic scrambled any sense of business as usual last week, the document-automation company</span> <a href= "https://www.litera.com/"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Litera</span></a> <span style= "font-weight: 400;">seemed to stay a step ahead, becoming one of the first major legal technology companies to take</span> <a href= "https://www.lawsitesblog.com/2020/03/litera-says-coronavirus-will-not-impact-its-operations-even-as-it-takes-steps-to-reduce-risk.html"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">steps to continue operations</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, quickly pivoting to develop a lite version of its deal-management platform to</span> <a href= "https://www.lawsitesblog.com/2020/03/litera-offers-free-six-month-access-to-lite-version-of-litera-transact.html"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">offer for free</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, and completing the notable</span> <a href= "https://www.lawsitesblog.com/2020/03/litera-acquires-best-authority-industry-leading-table-of-authorities-tool.html"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">acquisition of Best Authority</span></a><span style= "font-weight: 400;">. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Litera has been a company on the move since 2016, when a $100 million investment from K1 Investment Management led to</span> <a href= "https://www.lawsitesblog.com/2017/08/breaking-100-million-investment-combines-litera-microsystems-xref-sackett-group-iltacon.html"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">the combination</span></a> <span style="font-weight: 400;">of four document-technology companies – Litera, Microsystems, XRef and The Sackett Group – into a single business. After</span> <a href= "https://www.lawsitesblog.com/2019/05/litera-microsystems-is-sold-to-hg-private-equity-group.html"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">K1 sold the company</span></a> <span style="font-weight: 400;">to Hg Capital Trust last year, two more major acquisitions followed, of U.K. company</span> <a href= "https://w