Is kCura Gearing Up for an IPO?

After the e-Discovery company kCura announced this week it hired Jason Ream, a former investment banker who prominently touts his experience taking companies public, our antennae at Big Law Business buzzed.

The Chicago-based company, which produces the e-Discovery software Relativity, has been on a growth spree: In March, it purchased Content Analyst, which makes the back-end technology that’s under the hood powering the search engines in about a dozen e-Discovery software platforms. Last year, it accepted a $125 million investment from Iconic Capital.

Does Ream’s arrival signal that the private company is planning to float shares in an IPO?

We interviewed him and ...