RELX

What RELX does

RELX Group plc is a London-headquartered, FTSE 100-listed information-based analytics and decision tools provider operating across four market segments: Risk (LexisNexis Risk Solutions, ~36% of revenue/39% of profit), Scientific/Technical/Medical (Elsevier), Legal (LexisNexis Legal & Professional), and Exhibitions (RX). The company serves enterprise and professional customers — law firms, insurers, government agencies, financial institutions, researchers, and healthcare professionals — across more than 180 countries through direct enterprise sales and digital platform distribution, with FY2025 revenue of £9.59 billion and adjusted operating profit of £3.34 billion.

The core technology stack combines proprietary content corpora (notably LexisNexis's 200+ billion legal documents accumulated over decades) with AI-enabled analytics, machine learning algorithms, and proprietary data linking technology. Recent strategic moves include the acquisition of IDVerse (£270 million) for AI-powered identity verification, a partnership with Cytora embedding RELX data into LLM-powered underwriting, a partnership with OpenAI-backed Harvey for legal AI, and the pending acquisition of Doctrine (French legal AI platform). Revenue is generated through subscription-based recurring models across all four segments, with the Risk division deriving 90% of revenue from machine-to-machine interactions.

RELX employs 36,000+ people globally, including 12,000+ technologists, and operates through wholly-owned subsidiaries including LexisNexis Risk Solutions, LexisNexis Legal & Professional, Elsevier, RX (formerly Reed Exhibitions), Cirium, IDVerse, and pending acquisition Doctrine. The business model emphasizes durable enterprise relationships, deep workflow integration that creates switching costs, and a content-driven strategy that the company argues is irreplaceable by general-purpose AI.

Name

RELX

Legal name

RELX Group plc

Website

https://relx.com

Company type

Public

Founded year

2015

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1,001–5,000 employees

Short description

RELX Group plc is a UK-listed information-based analytics and decision tools provider operating across four segments — Risk, Scientific/Technical/Medical (Elsevier), Legal (LexisNexis), and Exhibitions (RX) — serving enterprise customers including law firms, insurers, researchers, and healthcare professionals globally with proprietary content and AI-enabled analytics.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Information Analytics and Decision Tools

NAICS

Software Publishers (5132), Custom Computer Programming Services (541511), Web Search Portals and All Other Information Services (51929)

SIC

Services-Computer Programming, Data Processing, Etc. (7370)

akta.pro primary industry

Identity Verification & Digital ID (IDV, eIDAS, biometrics) (FSAGAFAA)

akta.pro secondary industries

Risk Scoring, Decisioning & Orchestration (rules, ML, workflow) (FSAGAFAF), AML/CTF Transaction Monitoring & Case Management (FSAGAFAC), GRC, Policy Management & Controls Testing (SOX/ICFR, audit management) (FSAGAFAM), AML/CFT & Financial Crime Compliance (FSAFAOAD), Recordkeeping, Archiving & Audit Trail (WORM/SEC 17a-4) (FSAFAOAK)

Keywords

• Risk analytics solutions
• Legal information services
• Scientific publishing platforms
• Exhibitions and events
• Decision support tools

Headquarters

HQ city

London

HQ country

United Kingdom

HQ region

Europe

Offices3 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Operations, Infrastructure, Supply Chain

Revenue model

1. Risk (LexisNexis Risk Solutions): Provides customers with information-based analytics and decision tools that combine public and industry-specific content with advanced technology and algorithms to assist in evaluating and predicting risk and enhancing operational efficiency. Accounts for approximately 36% of RELX's revenue and 39% of profit, with full-year 2025 revenue of GBP 3.5 billion (USD 4.6 billion). Serves insurance, government, and financial services sectors with 90% of the Risk division's revenue coming from machine-to-machine interactions.
2. Scientific, Technical & Medical (Elsevier): Helps advance science and healthcare by combining high-quality, trusted scientific and medical information and data sets with innovative technologies to deliver critical insights that support better outcomes for researchers and healthcare professionals.
3. Legal (LexisNexis Legal & Professional): Helps customers improve decision-making, achieve better outcomes and increase productivity by providing tools that combine legal, regulatory and business information with powerful analytics. Serves law firms and corporate legal departments globally.
4. Exhibitions (RX): Combines industry expertise, digital tools, and data to help customers connect in-person and online, discover new markets, source products, generate leads, and transact. Growing approximately 8% with proprietary first-party data generated through face-to-face engagement.
5. FY2025 Full Year Results: Underlying revenue growth of 7% to £9.59 billion and adjusted operating profit up 9% to £3.34 billion with operating margins improving to 34.8%. Free cash flow increased to £2,313 million from £2,126 million in 2024. Dividend increased 7% to 67.5 pence per share with £2.25 billion share buyback announced for 2026.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels8 records

Core offering

RELX provides information-based analytics and decision tools across four market segments: Risk (LexisNexis Risk Solutions for fraud detection, identity verification, and risk assessment), Scientific, Technical & Medical (Elsevier for researchers and healthcare professionals), Legal (LexisNexis Legal & Professional for law firms and corporate legal departments), and Exhibitions (RX for B2B events). Its offerings combine proprietary content databases, including over 200 billion legal documents, with AI-enabled analytics to help professional and enterprise customers make better decisions.

Product overview

RELX is a global provider of information-based analytics and decision tools organized across four market segments: Risk (LexisNexis Risk Solutions), Scientific/Technical/Medical (Elsevier), Legal (LexisNexis Legal & Professional), and Exhibitions (RX). The portfolio includes both organic product lines and acquired technologies including IDVerse for identity verification and pending acquisition of Doctrine for legal AI. The core offerings leverage proprietary data assets and AI-enabled analytics to serve professional and business customers across 180+ countries. Key product lines include LexisNexis Risk Solutions (fraud detection, identity verification, risk assessment), Elsevier (scientific/medical information platforms), LexisNexis Legal & Professional (legal research and analytics), and RX (exhibitions and events).

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• LexisNexis: Legal information and analytics solutions for legal professionals and corporations
• Elsevier
• RX
• LexisNexis Risk Solutions
• Cirium

Products and services

• LexisNexis Risk Solutions
• Elsevier (Scientific, Technical & Medical)
• LexisNexis Legal & Professional
• RX (Exhibitions)
• Cirium
• IDVerse
• LexisNexis Risk Solutions Healthcare Identity Management Platform

Quantifiable outcome

• 7% underlying revenue growth and 9% adjusted operating profit growth in FY2025
• +4 more outcomes

Named customers7 records

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles5 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

AI capability10 records

Feature4 records

Partnerships

Five partnerships are on record, tiered strategic and core.

• DoctrinestrategicStrategic or Co-development Partner · 28 April 2026RELX Group, parent company of LexisNexis Legal & Professional, has entered into a put option agreement to acquire Doctrine, a leading French legal AI platform founded in 2016 and headquartered in Paris. The proposed acquisition aims to combine Doctrine's AI-powered research, drafting and analytics tools with LexisNexis's authoritative legal content, serving 27,000 legal professionals across France, Italy, Germany and Spain. Transaction subject to customary closing conditions including foreign direct investment clearances and regulatory approvals.
• CytoracoreTechnology or Integration · 23 April 2026Strategic partnership established on April 23, 2026 between Cytora and LexisNexis Risk Solutions, a subsidiary of RELX, to integrate RELX's data and analytics into the Cytora underwriting platform for US commercial insurers. The collaboration uses RELX's firmographics and proprietary linking technology alongside Cytora's LLM-powered platform to automate risk enrichment and reduce manual underwriting workflows, helping insurers scale digital risk processing and improve decision speed.
• HarveycoreTechnology or IntegrationLexisNexis has partnered with OpenAI-backed legal software startup Harvey to integrate its data corpus. Harvey is an AI-powered legal research and drafting platform backed by OpenAI, and the partnership enables LexisNexis to extend its reach while maintaining that its authoritative content cannot be replicated by general-purpose AI models.
• IDVersestrategicStrategic or Co-development PartnerRELX acquired IDVerse as part of five acquisitions totaling GBP 270 million. IDVerse provides AI-powered identity document verification solutions, enhancing RELX's fraud prevention capabilities within the Business Services segment. The acquisition strengthens new account opening solutions and customer case studies for the fraud and identity business.
• RX (Events Division)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerRX, a global events company owned by RELX and operating in 22 countries, organizes FIBO - the world's leading fitness and fitness trade show. RX serves as a business hub for international partnerships and investments in the health and fitness sector, combining industry expertise with digital tools and data to help customers connect in-person and online.

Scale indicators18 records

Recent moves7 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• Wolters Kluwer: Wolters Kluwer is a Dutch-listed professional information company providing legal, tax, regulatory, and healthcare information and software — overlapping directly with RELX's Legal and Elsevier STM segments and competing in workflow analytics.
• Thomson Reuters: Thomson Reuters is the closest direct peer to RELX, offering legal information (Westlaw), regulatory and tax content, and professional-grade analytics across legal, tax, and compliance markets — directly overlapping with LexisNexis Legal & Professional.
• Verisk Analytics: Verisk is a direct peer to LexisNexis Risk Solutions, providing analytics, fraud prevention, and decision-support tools specifically for the insurance industry, including underwriting and claims workflows that overlap with RELX's largest profit pool.
• Springer Nature: Springer Nature is a leading scientific, technical, and medical publisher competing head-to-head with RELX's Elsevier segment, particularly in academic journals, open access, and research analytics platforms.
• Clarivate: Clarivate provides scientific and intellectual property research analytics — directly competing with Elsevier on research workflow tools, citation databases, and IP analytics — and is a comparable subscription-analytics business.
• Dun & Bradstreet: Dun & Bradstreet is a direct peer to LexisNexis Risk Solutions in business firmographic data and linking technology, providing similar data and analytics products to insurance, financial services, and corporate compliance customers.

Broad incumbents

• S&P Global: S&P Global is a broad incumbent in financial information, credit ratings, and indices (including IHS Markit), overlapping with RELX Risk Solutions in financial market data and analytics but at much larger scale and across a wider portfolio.
• Moody's: Moody's is a broad incumbent in risk analytics and financial information via Moody's Ratings and Moody's Analytics, with overlap to RELX Risk Solutions in financial counterparty risk and corporate compliance use cases.
• MSCI: MSCI provides investment decision-support tools, indices, and risk analytics — comparable to RELX as a subscription-driven, analytics-heavy data business serving institutional customers, though focused on investment rather than insurance workflows.
• Pearson: Pearson is a broad incumbent in education and professional publishing with overlap to RELX's STM segment in higher education and assessment content, sharing a similar content-plus-analytics business model.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat6 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/RELXHQ
• YouTubeyoutube.com/c/RELXvideo
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/relx-group
• Instagraminstagram.com/relxhq

Compliance1 record

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles12 records

Subsidiaries7 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A6 records

Investments2 records

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