Source: in.reuters.com

MUMBAI (Reuters) - Legal process outsourcing is rapidly growing and is expected to become a $4 billion industry globally by 2015 with India occupying a significant chunk of it, industry players and analysts said.

U.S.-based Brown & Wilson Group Inc in its 2008 Black Book of Outsourcing has estimated the current value of legal outsourcing at $80 million, with more than three-fourths of it based in India.

“That is a very conservative estimate. I think it will grow faster as the market potential is huge,” said Suhas Tuljapurkar, who was formerly a partner at Mumbai law firm DSK Legal and left it to found Legasis Services Pvt Ltd.

Legal process outsourcing is an industry in which in-house legal departments or organisations outsource legal work from areas where it is costly to carry out.

“Law firms are focussing to increase pressure from their clients to decrease costs and retain profits per partner,” the Brown & Wilson report said, adding that every Indian homegrown law firm is building its own case for outsourcing.

The main areas of growth are discovery and litigation support, contract and document review services, and legal analytics and due diligence.

Source: www.pocketgamer.biz

Jon Jordan - UK-based games localisation, testing and quality assurance specialist Babel Media, which counts mobile companies such Vodafone, Glu, EA Mobile and Gameloft among its range of console, online and handheld clients, has been snapped up Quatrro BPO Solutions. It’s the sixth acquisition for the expanding outsourcing giant, which was founded by Indian entepreneur Raman Roy and is headquartered in Gurgaon, India.

The size of the deal wasn’t announced but is thought to be in the region of $30 million, and was funded partly by cash and partly by debt.

“This is our biggest acquisition in terms of profitability, topline and bottom line and I see this move as an intergral part of Quatrro’s agenda of ‘Going Beyond the Existing’ and building strategically important businesses in undeserved and uncontested market spaces. With this acquisition, we have bought India into the gaming testing and localisation space,” said Raman Roy.

As part of the transaction, Babel’s co-founder Algy Williams, will take the role of a non executive Quatrro director.

Babel employs over 500 staff and has offices in Brighton, Los Angeles, Montreal and New Delhi. Its mobile clients include Vodafone, Player X, Bandai Namco, THQ Wireless, Disney, EA Mobile, I-play, Orange, Motorola, Eidos, SEGA, Sony Pictures, Gameloft and Glu.

It offers services such as WAP portal assessment, Java and BREW porting, translation, functional and localisation QA, certification and deployment, and has ported over 2000 builds for North American and European clients in the past 12 months.