Legora ramps up growth with new European offices and London tech hub

Legora is set to open offices in Madrid, Milan and Paris, alongside a new London engineering base, as it expands its international footprint.

The moves are part of a broader push across the continent - Legora expects to grow its total EMEA region headcount to 700 within the next six to 12 months.

The Stockholm-born legal AI startup’s CEO Max Junestrand cited large existing customer bases and local AI engineering talent as reasons behind the new openings in Spain, Italy, France and the UK.

“Our customers in these countries have built Legora into the way they work,” he said.

“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 Madrid, Milan, and Paris offices will open in the third quarter of this year to serve as regional hubs for customer success, go to market functions, and legal engineering, while the new London hub will focus on AI engineering and tech development.

London calling

Complementing its existing engineering hubs in Stockholm and New York, Legora said it chose London because of the depth of AI talent in the city.

"Engineers who understand how AI applies in professional contexts are disproportionately concentrated in London," he said. 

"The London AI talent pool is shaped by proximity to some of the most demanding professional services firms in the world. 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 UK’s AI minister Kanishka Narayan called the London move a “vote of major confidence” in the country’s AI capabilities.

Legora was valued at $5.6 billion in a $600 million funding round earlier this year.