Doctrine Buys Spain’s Maite In Pan-European Move

Doctrine, the Paris-based legal AI platform, has acquired Maite, a Spanish legal co-pilot. The acquisition, its fifth in three years, ‘brings its total customer base to 27,000 legal professionals’ across Europe, in France, Germany, Italy, Spain and Luxembourg, they added.

As to Maite, the company only launched in 2024, but it offers a wide range of skills – in Spanish – covering areas such as drafting and review, and Q&A, with a classic legal AI assistant approach. They noted that following the deal there would be a push to hire additional staff in Spain.

In 2025, the company increased ARR twentyfold and now serves more than 2,000 customers, including solo practitioners, large law firms, corporate legal departments and public administrations, they added. It also ‘achieved a 99 percent success rate on the Spanish judiciary access exam’.

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More broadly, this is all about Doctrine’s plan to be a leader in European legal tech, leveraging legal data across case law, statutes, as well as corporate documents, and then combining this with a range of LLM-based workflows.

CEO, Guillaume Carrère, told Artificial Lawyer that their approach combines NLP/ML, RAG and LLMs to provide high accuracy in the search of their huge legal data library, with then the ability to perform a range of genAI skills once that data is surfaced.

Meanwhile, the company ‘provides legal professionals with a legal AI based on European technological sovereignty that is fully compliant with GDPR and meets the highest information security standards, including ISO 27001’.

Previous acquisitions include: Legaltile and Jobexit in 2023, and Dejure and Predictice in 2025.

In short, they’re building a pan-European legal AI platform that combines case law and corporate documents, along with litigation and transactional skills across the major markets of the EU, namely: France, Germany, Italy and Spain.

AL asked if there would be more M&A and Carrère said that was possible, but for now the main goal is to expand its client base in the above core European nations, home to 100,000s of lawyers in total.

Carrère, CEO of Doctrine, added: ‘By integrating Maite, we are consolidating our position as the European leader in legal AI. As the global AI market rapidly takes shape, our ambitions continue to focus on building a trusted European leader grounded in technological sovereignty. We are delighted to welcome Maite.ai to the Doctrine team. 2025 was our strongest growth year to date, and this acquisition further accelerates our trajectory.”

While, Alejandro Castellano, CEO of Maite, concluded: ‘Joining Doctrine gives us the scale and stability necessary to sustainably consolidate our leadership in Spain. By combining our technology with that of the European leader, we can offer our clients an even more robust solution, backed by ten years of industry expertise. This new chapter deeply respects our identity: Maite.ai will retain its brand, headquarters and team.’

More about Doctrine here.

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