Intelliswift Software Inc. acquired Premier Legal Staffing Inc. The acquisition increases Intelliswift's market share and provides a broader portfolio of legal workforce positions.

Premier Legal targeted legal areas include patent preparation/prosecution, opinions, due diligence, IP strategy, patent litigation, Hatch-Waxman, standards bodies and open source, licensing and various agreements, inter partes, and re-examination, as well as M&A and general corporate-related legal positions.

“Among Premier Legal Staffing's broad customer base, which includes leading technology companies and law firms, our focus will be aimed at further augmenting our services and cultivating our existing client and candidate relationships,” Intelliswift CEO Pat Patel said. “We are excited to join hands with and further support the talented Premier Legal Staffing team.”

Intelliswift, a staffing and software solutions provider, is headquartered in Silicon Valley with offices across the US, India and Singapore. It recently acquired P. Murphy & Associates Inc., an IT staffing firm based in Burbank, Calif., and Pleasanton-Calif.-based staffing agency Magagnini Network.