Specialist IP firm Rouse has acquired Swedish management consultancy outfit Konsert Strategy & IP.

Gothenburg-headquartered Konsert is a niche IP management consulting firm with technology clients across Europe, Asia and North America.

The aim of the acquisition, which was completed in July, is to combine Rouse’s IP service model with Konsert’s management consulting capabilities, creating a single source for both strategic IP consultancy and IP services execution.

Luke Minford, CEO at Rouse, said Konsert offered a “consulting capability that is truly unique, enabling clients to compete and win in critical areas of technology and innovation”.

He added that the merger would “result in the exchange of so much critical know-how and insight that I have no doubt of its benefit to our clients and people across the Rouse group”.

Konsert will remain an independent brand within the Rouse group, co-founder, partner and CEO Jens Bördin, said. “By combining our technology-driven competitiveness and management consulting capabilities with Rouse’s core services and global reach, we are setting a new standard for integrated IP services,” he added.

Rouse, which was founded in the UK, has 17 offices across 12 jurisdictions and the acquisition marks its third foray into Sweden, following the 2019 addition of Swedish IP consultancy IPQ and the 2022 merger with European IP firm Valea. 

Minford said that Sweden remains a “strategically important territory for Rouse because of the quality and intensity of its innovative companies. It is also a country recognised as producing some of the highest quality IP professionals in Europe”.

In a press statement, the two companies noted that combining Rouse’s global integrated IP service model with Konsert’s technology-based competitiveness and management consulting capabilities will create a unique, end-to-end value proposition to clients not yet seen in the IP services market.

They said the move bridges a “crucial market gap” by offering C-suite, board and IP stakeholders a single source for both strategic IP consultancy and IP services execution.