Pioneering legal AI platform Harvey is to open an office in Paris as its global growth continues. It’s great timing because the Legal Innovators Europe conference will take place for the first time in the French capital this June. They have also hired Jorge Bestard from Canva to become VP EMEA Sales.
The launch of a Paris office follows the rapid expansion of Harvey around the world, with other office launches including Bengaluru in India last year, and Dublin, Ireland at the start of 2026.
The move comes as Harvey announced it had reached $190m ARR by December and now has over 1,000 clients across the law firm and inhouse legal markets.
Winston Weinberg, Harvey’s CEO, commented: ‘In the last year, we’ve grown our London team to 75+ employees, expanded into Spain and Germany, and added EQT and Evantic as strategic investors in Europe. The addition of Jorge as a senior leader on our team and an office in Paris in Q2 represent our objective to support the best legal teams in Europe with Harvey.’
‘We’re proud to already partner with some of France’s most respected law firms and legal teams, including Adecco, August Debouzy, Berenice, Bredin Prat, and Vinci Energies, and this new office will help us collaborate even more closely with those shaping the future of legal work,’ he added.
John Haddock, Harvey’s Chief Business Officer, also commented: ‘Being close to customers matters. A local presence in Paris lets us engage more directly with law firms and in-house teams, understand their challenges firsthand, and support them in a way that simply isn’t possible from afar. We are thrilled to combine Jorge’s arrival with the office opening announcement to further reinforce our commitment to and growth in Europe.’
Meanwhile, as noted above, they have hired Jorge Bestard from global graphics software company Canva, to be VP of EMEA Sales. At Canva he led the company’s regional sales efforts for the last four years. Previously he held leadership roles at Miro and Meta. Originally from Spain, Bestard will be based at Harvey’s London office and will manage teams across Europe.
Is the Paris office a big deal? Well, as the company pointed out, it’s important to be close to your customers. Very few UK or US legal tech companies have a significant global spread of offices, with most hoping to cover international markets remotely. But, if you look at the really large players, such as LexisNexis and Thomson Reuters, they have long had local bases across the world in order to sustain customer relationships and support a global outlook.
Moreover, Europe as a whole is a very large market for legal tech. And that’s a key reason for Artificial Lawyer and Cosmonauts launching the Legal Innovators Europe conference this year, which will take place in Paris this June, and is designed to represent buyers and sellers of legal tech across all of the region, including global players. It will be take place over two days as usual for Legal Innovators conferences, with a law firm day and an inhouse day.
More info here about Legal Innovators conferences. Note, more details to come shortly about venue etc, but the Europe conference will be held in June in central Paris.
More about Harvey here.
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