Navigant Consulting, a global expert services firm, has acquired Ignited Discovery, an electronic evidence and discovery services provider. No additional transaction details were released.

The Ignited Discovery team brings technology-focused expertise in collections, processing and hosting services that, combined with Navigant's existing Technology Services practice, creates a significantly enhanced discovery services offering for clients dealing with anti-trust matters, SEC investigations, class actions and other data intensive high risk situations.

"Seismic changes are occurring in the litigation support and eDiscovery marketplace. Corporate and law firm clients are demanding not only end-to-end, cost effective and predictable e-discovery capabilities, but also highly flexible custom applications,” said Jeff Green, vice president of Navigant's Dispute and Investigative Services practice.  “With the Ignited Discovery team, we have strengthened our data collections, processing and hosting capabilities in order to support clients in managing petabytes of increasingly diverse and disperse data.  The enhanced practice will strengthen our ability to manage the largest data sets across the Electronic Discovery Reference Model spectrum.”

Navigant's Technology Services practice works with companies and their counsel on event driven and long-term data management issues.  The team works with clients on both an in-sourced and outsourced basis providing highly flexible custom applications to meet the needs of each situation.  The Technology Services group is part of Navigant's Disputes and Investigations practice, which is comprised of more than 500 dedicated professionals who work with companies and their legal counsel to provide litigation consulting, investigative assistance and expert testimony in complex disputes, forensic accounting and regulatory matters.