Swedish legaltech firm Legora is opening three new offices in Madrid, Milan and Paris as it seeks to tap into increasing European-based demand.
The offices are set to open in the third quarter of this year, with their primary focus on sales, customer success and legal engineering – a key role in assisting its customer base with AI adoption and workflow creation.
Legora is also planning to launch a new engineering hub in London that will complement the firm’s new office in the UK capital, which officially opened its doors last month.
Max Junestrand, CEO and co-founder of Legora, said: “Our customers in these countries have built Legora into the way they work. Opening offices in Madrid, Milan and Paris means we can be genuinely close to them as we build the future of the platform together.”
The planned London hub will be the third pillar of the firm’s global engineering organisation, alongside its existing hubs in Stockholm and New York, to develop capacity in three of the world’s leading technology markets.
Junestrand added that the significant concentration of AI engineers in London has been formed by their close proximity to several of the most “demanding professional services firms in the world”.
He added: “People here have built things that have to perform under real legal and regulatory constraints. That’s a different problem from building a consumer product, and it’s precisely the problem we’re solving.”
The hub has received UK government approval, with AI minister Kanishka Narayan saying the move is a “major vote of confidence” in the UK’s AI capacity.
The four new locations represent Legora’s most intense EMEA investment to date.
It is targeting a headcount of 700 in the region within the next six to 12 months, and hiring has already begun.
Last month, the firm said it was opening offices in Tokyo and Singapore to continue its APAC expansion to meet growing demand, adding to its Sydney office which opened last year.
In March, it extended its US footprint with new bases in Houston and Chicago, joining its first US office that was opened in New York last year.
Overall, Legora has 16 offices across four continents. The firm says it has in excess of 100,000 users at more than 1,200 law firms and in-house legal teams, exceeding 50 markets.
Earlier this month, the firm acquired commercial real estate AI platform Cadastral as it seeks to expand its coverage in legally intensive and complex industries.
And last month it also secured a deal to purchase Melbourne-based regulatory horizon scanning platform start-up Graceview to broaden its reach in the Australian legal market.
Meanwhile, its main rival Harvey also announced a European expansion in April by opening a new Dublin office, following plans to open a new base in Singapore this month.
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