Legora is already hiring to fill its new offices, with plans to grow its combined EMEA headcount to 700.

Swedish legal AI start-up Legora is expanding its footprint with a new engineering hub in London alongside new offices in Madrid, Milan and Paris. The expansion comes three months after the company raised $550m in a Series D round which valued Legora at $5.5bn.

Founded as Leya in 2023, Legora is an agentic AI platform supporting legal professionals with research, review and document drafting. It is used by more than 100,000 legal professionals at more than 1,200 law firms and in-house legal teams across more than 50 markets, according to the company.

The Madrid, Milan, and Paris offices will serve as regional hubs for customer success, go-to-market functions and legal engineering, while the new London engineering hub will be co-located with Legora’s existing presence in the city.

The new offices will open during Q3 this year and represent Legora’s most concentrated Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) investment to date, the company said.

Legora is already hiring for positions to fill the new offices, with plans to grow its combined EMEA headcount to 700 within the next year. According to its website, Legora currently employs more than 400 in total.

“Our customers in these countries have built Legora into the way they work,” said Max Junestrand, the CEO and co-founder of Legora. “Opening offices in Madrid, Milan and Paris means we can be genuinely close to them as we build the future of the platform together.

“Engineers who understand how AI applies in professional contexts are disproportionately concentrated in London … 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 new offices will bring Legora’s global footprint to 16 cities including Munich, Chicago, Houston, San Francisco, Toronto, Bengaluru and Sydney, as well as recently announced offices in Singapore and Tokyo, the company said. It also has existing engineering hubs in Stockholm and New York.

Legora’s March Series D round was led by Accel, with participation from the likes of Benchmark, General Catalyst, Y Combinator, Menlo Ventures and Salesforce Ventures, and took the legal-tech’s total raised to date to $815m.

The company, at the time, said it planned to use the newly raised funds to further expand across the US, including with new offices in Texas and Illinois, as well as new local hubs. Legora plans to expand its US headcount to more than 300 by the end of 2026.

In April, the company acquired Stockholm-based AI-native legal research start-up Qura for an undisclosed value.

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