AACER is More Than PACER

Our Data Story

Traditionally, searching for bankruptcies within your debtor portfolios meant going to the PACER website, searching various courts to see if any new filing matches your debtor one at a time, and then doing it again the next day or month. 

Some companies even wait for a call from the debtor or debtor’s attorney to advise of a bankruptcy filing. Both of these methods create a significant amount of business risk of incurring large penalties and lost revenue for lack of participation in the bankruptcy process as current regulations dictate. This process becomes even more impossible when you have hundreds, thousands, or even millions of debtor records at risk.

Filer Match and Notify

Epiq AACER has a better solution. Every night, our AACER software goes out and queries all U.S. bankruptcy courts, coast to coast, for new filings that occurred that day. This process begins at 5:00 PM Eastern time and takes around four hours to complete. The notification data collected from any new filings that occurred that day is brought into the AACER platform.

Since January of 2006, we have identified every new bankruptcy case and adverse proceeding, then pulled this information into the AACER database. Additionally, we have gathered older data that goes back to 1950,  We now have over 35 million cases and over 200 thousand pages in the database. We're a data and software-centric business. Our customers hire us due to our competence in the timeliness, completeness and accuracy of bankruptcy data and the value-add we provide far beyond what PACER has to offer.