Two years ago, Mitratech CEO Jason Parkman and ThinkSmart CEO Paul Hirner met at the Corporate Legal Operations Consortium (CLOC) annual institute. The two company heads saw a natural fit between in-house legal and compliance group Mitratech’s TeamConnect platform and workflow automation tool ThinkSmart Automation Platform (TAP), and decided to establish a partnership agreement.

After 24 months of partnering, Mitratech this morning announced it would formally acquire ThinkSmart, making the two companies’ relationship “more of a marriage,” Parkman said. The acquisition will see both technologies integrated into Mitratech’s TeamConnect platform to provide what both companies believe will be the broadest end-to-end legal operations platform.