Beirut – Lebanon-based regtech startup HAQQ Legal AI has raised $3 million in funding to date to accelerate the development and global rollout of its Legal AI and practice management platform, the company announced today.
The funding round was led by Sowlutions Ventures, with participation from HITEK Ventures, Corona Legal, IM FNDNG, Highworth, Razor Capital, SYMAX, Hamady Trust, and other strategic and financial investors. HAQQ Legal AI is also a member of the NVIDIA Inception Alliance Program, supporting its work on large-scale AI infrastructure and applied legal intelligence.
Founded in 2020 by Antoine Kanaan and Maître Abbas Kabalan, HAQQ Legal AI is building a vertically integrated Legal AI operating system that combines AI-native legal intelligence, practice management, payments, and institutional infrastructure into a single platform designed to manage legal work end to end.
The newly raised capital will be used to deepen HAQQ’s Legal AI and agent architecture and expand enterprise and institutional deployments across the MENA region, with the company currently active in Egypt and Jordan.
Building an AI operating system for the legal industry
HAQQ Legal AI’s platform currently serves more than 7,000 clients, including enterprise legal teams, law firms, bar associations, courts, public institutions, and individual users, enabling secure, auditable, and jurisdiction-aware legal execution at scale.
Unlike generic Legal AI tools, HAQQ’s system is built on structured legal ontologies and firm-specific digital twins, allowing the platform to model how organizations think, work, and make legal decisions. This approach ensures outputs are aligned with internal data, governance requirements, and jurisdictional workflows.
At the core of the platform is Justinian®, HAQQ Legal AI’s proprietary Legal AI engine, designed to deliver client-ready legal work through a single prompt. According to the company, Justinian® has consistently outperformed general-purpose AI models and traditional legal engines in terms of accuracy, structure, and jurisdictional reliability, functioning as an AI lawyer capable of executing a wide range of legal tasks.
Addressing inefficiencies in a $1 trillion industry
The global legal industry represents over $1 trillion in economic activity, yet remains one of the least digitized sectors worldwide. Legal work is still largely dependent on fragmented tools, manual processes, and disconnected data systems.
HAQQ Legal AI aims to address this gap by providing core infrastructure for the legal industry, unifying legal drafting, research, review, and summarization with end-to-end practice management systems, international payments, and institutional platforms for courts, bar associations, and regulators.
Founder perspectives
“Legal AI is much more than a chatbot; it’s about ontological systems, security infrastructure, data mapping, and modelling real-world enterprise decision-making,” said Antoine Kanaan, Founder and CEO of HAQQ Legal AI. “This is what it truly means to digitize justice.”
Maître Abbas Kabalan, Founder and Chief Legal Officer, added: “HAQQ is not about replacing human judgment. It’s about removing friction so lawyers can focus on strategy, advocacy, and meaningful human relationships, while AI handles the heavy and repetitive work.”
Looking ahead
As adoption of Legal AI accelerates globally, HAQQ Legal AI is positioning itself as a foundational legal intelligence layer for enterprises and institutions. The company plans to continue expanding across law firms, corporate legal teams, and public legal institutions, with a long-term vision of enabling secure, transparent, and AI-native justice systems worldwide.
