MD Law has advised on the sale of an established UK AI company to an Indian-based industry giant in an international deal.
London-based data & AI company Datavid has been acquired by Indian-owned AI & Analytics company, C5i.
Datavid’s expertise in graph data engineering and knowledge graphs will further enhance C5i’s capabilities in deploying business-ready generative and agentic AI solutions.
The acquisition offers C5i the chance to enhance its ability to leverage and deploy knowledge graph capability, enabling AI systems to understand relationships, context, and meaning across different data sources, allowing models to reason, explain outcomes, and generate trustworthy insights and actions.
It will also allow Datavid’s clinical and R&D capabilities for pharma companies to intensify C5i’s current focus and strengths in the life sciences sector.
Sheffield’s MD Law acted for the majority shareholder of Datavid with partner and head of corporate James Burdekin advising on English law compliance on the transaction.
James Burdekin said: “We provided guidance and assistance on English law on the transaction on the sale side for the majority shareholder of Datavid liaising with Indian lawyers and Indian bankers.
“It highlighted the different approaches and ensured the paperwork was legally compliant in the UK but satisfied legal requirements for both parties.”
Co-Founder and CEO of Datavid, Balvinder Dang, said: “Partnering with C5i brings together complementary depth in analytics and AI implementation, and gives our clients a more complete path to AI that doesn’t just generate outputs, but supports decisions that people can understand, defend, and act on with confidence.”
Headquartered in London, Datavid has delivery teams across the United States, Romania, and India. The acquisition will further expand C5i’s geographic footprint in Europe and strengthen nearshore delivery capabilities in the UK and Romania.
Datavid’s team of AI engineers, knowledge graph architects, semantic technologists, and data scientists has built strong data and AI foundations for leading global life sciences companies, scientific publishers, standards organizations, and financial institutions.
Datavid also gains the opportunity to scale its technology across C5i’s global client base while complementing its graph data engineering capabilities with C5i’s AI expertise and agentic AI platform, Agent5i. Datavid’s clients will benefit from access to C5i’s broader portfolio of AI and analytics capabilities to drive more actionable decision intelligence.
As enterprise AI shifts toward autonomous, agent-driven decision systems, semantic data foundations will become a critical prerequisite for scalable and reliable agentic AI.
Ashwin Mittal, Executive Chairman of C5i, said: “This acquisition strengthens C5i’s proposition to clients to build intelligent systems that move from insight to autonomous action in several domains, including supply chain optimization, Customer 360, risk, product engineering, and others. We will also be able to provide a holistic value proposition for the life sciences industry by combining our strength in commercial analytics with Datavid’s expertise in R&D and scientific applications.”
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