The Civica Group is an international software business group. It is a privately owned group of companies headquartered in London, UK, and with regional head offices in Australia, Singapore and North America. History Civica was set up through a management buy-out from the Sanderson Group in 1999, backed by venture capitalist group Alchemy Partners and led by Simon Downing who became chief executive. The Civica Group was officially formed from the Sanderson Group in 2002. The group was subsequently listed on the Alternative Investment Market of the London Stock Exchange in 2004. It was delisted in 2008 when it was acquired by 3i for £190 million. In September 2009 Civica acquired in4tek, a community health and social care record software specialist based in Altrincham. In April 2011 Civica UK, a wholly owned subsidiary of Civica Group, acquired specialized document and records management services provider Cave Tab. In May 2011 it acquired PSCAL, a financial management software and services provider for the NHS. In June 2012 Civica acquired Gateway Computing Ltd, publisher of WinDIP Enterprise, a document and records management software suite. In 2013 Civica acquired Corero Business Systems, an educational software provider. In 2014 Civica acquired both Coldharbour Systems, a software provider, and Healthcare and Keystone Asset Management, an asset management specialist for the Housing market. Also, in 2014 Civica acquired Asidua, a local government contact management and application specialist and telecoms specialist. In 2016 Civica acquired Norwel Legal and IPL Information Processing Limited. In 2016 Civica also acquired government digital specialist SFW LTD. through which Civica transformed SFW India Pvt LTD. to Civica offshore resourcing center in Vadodara, India. In December 2016 Civica acquired Abritas a social housing software developer and service provider based in Reading, Berkshire It was sold to Partners Group in July 2017 for £1.06 billion. At that point it had about 3,700 staff. In 2017 Civica was awarded the Civic Compliance contract for the State Government of Victoria for both enforcement and Customer Service. Operations Civica offers services across the following markets: Local Government Social housing Parking enforcement & public protection Libraries and education Mobile fleet and asset management Public protection Pension administration Health and Social Care Legal Local Government Civica provides specialist systems and outsourcing services to local authorities and their partners in the UK, Europe and Australia. Services offered include electronic document management (EDM) systems, parking infrastructure, IT infrastructure, and E-payments systems. The