Legaltech Hub Names Jeroen Plink CEO, Announces Strategic Partnership with Baretz+Brunelle

Legaltech Hub (LTH), the industry’s leading legal technology insights and analysis company, today announced that co-founder Jeroen Plink has been named CEO. LTH’s outgoing CEO and co-founder Nikki Shaver is departing to join Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP as chief AI and knowledge officer. Plink and Shaver begin their new roles December 1, 2026. LTH co-founder Chris Ford will also transition out of leading LTH events in 2027. Both Shaver and Ford will remain shareholders of LTH.

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Since its founding in 2020, LTH has grown from a comprehensive directory of legal technology solutions into a global research, intelligence, and advisory business serving law firms, corporate legal departments, and technology providers around the world. Under Shaver’s and Plink’s leadership, the company has built a widely respected team and established itself as a trusted resource for organizations navigating the changing legal technology landscape.

“Building Legaltech Hub from an idea into the company it is today has been one of the most rewarding experiences of my career,” said Shaver. “I’m enormously proud of what our team has created, and grateful to the clients, partners, and colleagues who have supported us along the way. I’m excited to take on a new challenge at Davis Polk, and I look forward to seeing Legaltech Hub continue to thrive.”

Plink is a legal tech pioneer, having played a key role in the industry’s growth for more than two decades. He began his career as a lawyer at Clifford Chance and later served as CEO of Clifford Chance Applied Solutions. After a successful startup in due diligence software, Plink led Practical Law Company US and served as its CEO through its acquisition by Thomson Reuters. Plink currently serves on the boards of Verbit, Definely, Cognia, and Alt Legal, and previously served on the boards of Casetext, Kira Systems, and Leopard Solutions.

Alongside the leadership transition, LTH also announced today a strategic partnership with Baretz+Brunelle (B+B), the legal industry’s leading growth advisory firm, and its innovation arm, LexFusion, led by B+B partners Joe Borstein, Evan Shenkman, and Paul Stroka. The partnership with B+B and LexFusion is designed to help facilitate a new stage of growth for LTH. With B+B’s overlapping client base and offerings, it will play an active role in LTH’s acceleration. LTH will remain market-agnostic, and its team will continue to seamlessly serve its existing clients, subscribers, and vendor partners.

“We are all extremely excited for Nikki as she embarks on an exceptional new opportunity,” said Plink. “Nikki and Chris have played foundational roles in building Legaltech Hub into the trusted industry resource it is today. Thanks to their contributions and the extraordinary team we have assembled, the company is well positioned for its next phase of growth. Our clients will keep working with the people they know. This is an exciting new chapter for the company, and the partnership with Baretz+Brunelle adds real firepower for the clients we share.”

“Beyond the fact that we have known and loved the LTH team since inception, the marketplace continues to signal an urgent need for more and more intelligence and analysis of the legal tech landscape. B+B and LTH could not be a better pair to serve that need,” said Spencer Baretz, founding partner of Baretz+Brunelle. “B+B’s partnership with LTH makes so much sense.”

The leadership transition and the partnership B+B mark the beginning of a new phase for LTH, which will continue to provide independent research, intelligence, content, and advisory services to law firms, corporate legal departments, and technology providers worldwide.

ABOUT LEGALTECH HUB

Legaltech Hub is the leading global legal technology insights and analysis company serving law firms, corporate legal departments, legal technology vendors, and investors. Legaltech Hub maintains and builds a comprehensive library of content written by respected industry experts, including solution guides, procurement roadmaps, innovation, KM, digital transformation and generative AI know-how, and legal tech resources to increase lawyer fluency.

Legaltech Hub combines the most comprehensive, curated directory of legal technology tools and legal software in the world, covering more than 3,000 legal technology solutions, with a powerful search that allows commercial legal professionals to find exactly what they’re looking for to meet any use case by applying nuanced filters that align with key data points.

Through LTH Premium, its online research platform, buyers of legal tech access various resources to keep them up to date on legal tech, AI, and innovation in the legal industry. Legaltech Hub experts offer bespoke consulting and advisory services to law firms, in-house legal departments, legal tech vendors, and investors. For more information, visit www.legaltechnologyhub.com.

ABOUT BARETZ+BRUNELLE

B+B is a growth advisory firm to elite businesses in the legal industry. We focus on the things that drive growth in the legal industry—reputation, talent, revenue, leadership, capital, innovation, and intelligence.

For over 20 years, we have helped our clients build market-leading reputations, merge and acquire, manage crises, hire and accelerate top talent, make transformational business decisions, improve financials and operations, raise capital, deploy technology, launch new services, secure new clients, and dominate geographies and industry niches.

Our global clients are Am Law 100 and 200 law firms, elite boutiques, alternative legal services providers, legal technology companies, private equity firms and litigation funders, legal information and analytics companies, and other leading service providers and counterparties to the legal industry.

Founded in New York, B+B has a team that includes former Am Law 100 C-suite executives and lawyers, marketing and communications mavens, award-winning journalists, corporate finance experts, digital marketing visionaries, legal technology gurus, management consultants, intelligence professionals, and legal talent advisors. For more information, visit www.baretzbrunelle.com.

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