July 08, 2025 at 12:50 PM By Ella Sherman

On Tuesday, legal tech startup Eudia announced that it has acquired alternative legal service provider (ALSP) Johnson Hana for an undisclosed amount.

With the acquisition, Eudia aims to bolster its agentic AI technology with support from Johnson Hana’s legal consulting staff who will bring legal expertise and industry knowledge.

“We were looking for a partner that already had a track record of embracing technology, was already working with in-house teams playing…and we found that was Johnson Hana,” Eudia cofounder and CEO Omar Haroun told Legaltech News.

Eudia offers an augmented intelligence platform hosting agentic AI tools that help streamline tasks and organize data for chief legal officers and in-house legal departments at Fortune 500 companies. Some of their clients include Cargill, DHL and Duracell.

Meanwhile, Johnson Hana provides legal consulting services in areas such as data protection and compliance for in-house legal teams at companies such as Citibank, Airbnb, TikTok and others.

In the press release, Eudia noted that it is combining its technology with over 300 of Johnson Hana’s legal professionals in order to provide a more collaborative relationship between tech and human experts to provide better guidance to users while also preventing gen AI risks like hallucinations.

“I think most of the tech world is just focusing on [retrieval augmented generation] and other technical ways to reduce those kinds of risks, but at the end of the day, it just felt like the obviously better approach would be to just embrace the human in the loop and actually make the problem statement, how do I turn this human into a 10x human as opposed to how do I try to build software that can make the human obsolete,” Haroun said.

He added that combining Johnson Hana’s professionals with Eudia technology would allow them to become fully trained on using the startup's platform and now offer managed legal services in addition to consulting services.

“So for all of their current customers and for all of Eudia’s current customers, we now have an opportunity for this team to both offer managed services and offer a secondment model where a lot of their lawyers actually act as extensions of the in-house teams of companies like Stripe and Airbnb and Citibank and so on,” Houran said.

The acquisition of Johnson Hana comes several months after Eudia announced that it raised $105 million in series A funding in February, which had backing from former Relativity CEOs Andrew Sieja and Mike Gamson. A majority of this funding, $75 million, was reserved for M&A while $30 milliom was in committed equity.

At the time, Eudia was also one of the few legal tech companies breaking the six-figure investment threshold over a 12 month period.