Hummingbird, one of the largest suppliers of document management and enterprise content management (ECM) systems to law firms, has announced its intention to buy back 1.5m of its 17.5m common shares.

The bid began on 13 December, 2005, and will terminate on 12 December, 2006, or earlier, if the proposed target of 9.8% of the corporation’s ‘public float’ is reached. Hummingbird will purchase the shares at the market price at the time of any particular transaction.