BMC Group Announces a SmartRoom™ Strategic Partnership with Codex Global

LONDON, May 30, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- BMC Group, a leading global provider of financial, legal, and corporate information management services, announces a strategic partnership with Codex Global as a value-added service to SmartRoom™, an award-winning powerful cloud-based deal management solution for secure document exchange. SmartRoom is used by financial and legal professionals for due diligence, M&A deals, portfolio management, fundraising, post-merger integration, and secure document collaboration. Codex provides a unique combination of print, translation, and research services and the addition of its capabilities to the SmartRoom offering will further strengthen BMC Group's commitment to delivering customized deal management solutions to clients worldwide.

Delivering leading virtual data room services, SmartRoom supports buy-side and sell-side deal owners with highly secure document collaboration. The partnership between BMC Group and Codex provides SmartRoom managers with the ability to conduct financial transactions and share multi-language due diligence information online – between global parties – in one central secure location. Codex's traditional services include printing of financial and legal documentation, typesetting international examination papers, and overseeing employee security rights' selection. With SmartRoom, Codex clients will be able to securely share and store sensitive financial and legal documentation. SmartRoom provides secure file sharing between mandated parties and does not allow unauthorised forwarding, downloading, or printing of shared files – a critical security measure for highly sensitive deal handling.

Codex has more than 25 years of experience in language services, market research, and secure printing – and has a team of more than 5,000 linguists working in over 150 languages worldwide. With its support for internationalisation, SmartRoom provides an unparalleled multi-language interface platform ensuring a synergistic partnership with an established partner like Codex.

"Our strategic alliance with Codex in Europe will continue to expand our global reach and deliver a superior platform to customers and prospects," said Jeff Kalina, executive vice president of BMC Group's SmartRoom division. "Together, we will be able to offer them versatility and unmatched transactional security. I am confident our joint clients will strategically benefit from our unified value proposition."

"Combining SmartRoom with Codex's leading services will provide our clients with the ability to securely, quickly, and easily open new data rooms all around the globe and share sensitive documentation online," said Rupert Foster, sales and marketing director for Codex. "Codex will be able to offer SmartRoom as a 'best of breed' technology' offering that further extends our strong printing, translation, and research services platform."

About SmartRoom™

SmartRoom (www.smartroomservices.com) is a powerful cloud-based deal management solution for due diligence, M&A deals, portfolio management, fundraising, post-merger integration, secure document collaboration, restructuring, legal settlements, and medical records analysis. SmartRoom is available in nine languages, and is accessed in over 50 countries. With over 20,000 organizations and 250,000 users having utilized a SmartRoom, over $525 billion in transactions have been managed using a SmartRoom.

About BMC Group, Inc.

BMC Group, Inc. (www.bmcgroup.com) is a leading global provider of information management solutions. Based on the company's resourcefulness, creativity, and tenacity in completing an impressive array of transactions, BMC Group received the prestigious Asia-Pacific M&A Atlas Award for M&A Technology Services Provider of the Year in December 2011 for SmartRoom. BMC Group clients are leading investment banks, private equity firms, hedge funds, government agencies, insurance carriers, healthcare providers, and Fortune 1000 corporations. With more than 200 professionals throughout North America, Asia, and Europe, BMC Group is committed to service excellence.

About Codex

With over 25 years' experience in language services, market research, and secure printing, Codex Global is Europe's leading integrated translation, print and research company. This unique combination of services allows Codex to offer clients the very highest levels of customer service, project integration, and data security from offices in London, Leeds, Edinburgh, Milan, Barcelona, and Doha.