Consilio

Consilio is a legal services and technology company that provides eDiscovery, managed document review, forensic investigations and wider legal operations support. It began in 2000 as First Advantage Litigation Consulting, later took the Consilio name, and has been majority owned by the private equity firm Stone Point Capital since 2021. Andy Macdonald is chief executive.

Consilio has passed between private equity sponsors, with GI Partners investing in 2018 and selling to Stone Point Capital in 2021, the same year the business combined with Xact Data Discovery and bought the alternative legal services provider Legility. Acquisitions before and since brought in Advanced Discovery and DiscoverReady in 2018, Lawyers On Demand and the contract technology consultancy SYKE in 2023, and the legal AI developer TrueLaw in 2025.

Consilio at a glance:

• Founded: Founded in 2000 as First Advantage Litigation Consulting, the litigation support arm of First Advantage Corporation, and later rebranded as Consilio.
• Headquarters: Headquartered in Washington, DC, with offices across North America, the United Kingdom, continental Europe, the Middle East and Asia Pacific.
• Ownership: Majority owned by the private equity firm Stone Point Capital since 2021, with Aquiline Capital Partners holding a stake from the Xact Data Discovery combination.
• Legal Technology Portfolio: Sells the Consilio offering listed in this directory, pairing its own discovery and review technology with managed services, legal talent and advisory work.
• Market Focus: Serves large corporate legal departments, government bodies and law firms globally, concentrated in litigation, regulatory investigations and data breach response.

What legal teams should know: Consilio fits legal departments with heavy, recurring litigation or regulatory volume that prefer one provider for both technology and people rather than separate vendors. It is a private equity asset that has changed sponsors before and grown by absorbing competitors, so buyers should weigh continuity of account teams, platform consolidation and pricing over a long contract term.