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Harvey hires Omar Puertas from Cuatrecasas. * Moves * 31/03/2026 * 2 minutes read As anticipated by the lawyer in a post on his LinkedIn profile a week ago, Omar Puertas has moved to Harvey from Cuatrecasas, where built a career spanning international arbitration and, more recently, artificial intelligence in the legal sector. Reflecting on his departure, Puertas said in a post on his LinkedIn profile: "I spent 25 years at Cuatrecasas. Long enough for a law firm to stop being a law firm and become something else - a way of being, a way of seeing." Explaining his move, he said: "You feel it before you understand it; that moment when what lies ahead starts calling you more than what you already have. I've just joined Harvey. My two passions, law and technology, finally together." The profile. Puertas joined Cuatrecasas in 2000 in Barcelona and later played a key role in the firm's international expansion, relocating to Shanghai in 2007 to launch its first Asia office. He served as managing partner of the Shanghai office until 2019, advising on cross-border disputes and investments across Asia, Europe and Latin America.

AI company establishes Dublin location as EMEA G&A hub. Harvey officially opens Dublin office, announces plans for 40+ roles. 31/03/2026 Ireland Dublin, Ireland - 31 March 2026 - Harvey, the legal infrastructure for law firms and in-house teams, today officially opened its Dublin office at Riverside 2, Sir John Rogerson's Quay. The company plans to grow its Dublin team to more than 40 employees over the next two years, marking a significant long-term investment in Ireland's AI and business talent ecosystem. Harvey first announced its intention to establish a Dublin presence in January, with plans to create 20 roles in its first year. The company has since made its first two hires across its people and finance teams, with additional roles currently open on its legal and sales teams. The Dublin office will serve as Harvey's EMEA G&A hub, supporting a rapidly expanding customer base across the region. Approximately 30% of Harvey's 1,000+ global customers are based in EMEA, including leading global and Irish law firms and enterprises such as A&L Goodbody, Arthur Cox, Maples Group, Mason Hayes & Curran, McCann FitzGerald, Beauchamps LLP, Philip Lee LLP, and Kingspan Group. The new location places Harvey in close proximity to many of these customers and at the heart of Dublin's established technology and professional services community. Minister for Enterprise, Tourism and Employment Peter Burke said: "Harvey's expansion highlights Ireland's growing influence in the global AI landscape. This investment reflects the momentum within Ireland's AI ecosystem and the significant opportunity it presents for high-value job creation and innovation. Harvey's decision to establish its EMEA G&A hub here reinforces Ireland's reputation as a competitive location for companies developing and deploying advanced AI technologies with global impact." "Today marks an important milestone in our European growth," said Winston Weinberg, CEO and co-founder of Harvey. "We're proud to partner with many of Ireland's leading firms and enterprises, and establishing a permanent presence in Dublin allows us to deepen those relationships while continuing to scale across EMEA. Ireland's strong technology ecosystem and access to exceptional talent make it the right place for us to invest for the long term." Katie Burke, Chief Operating Officer at Harvey, added: "Dublin has a deep pool of experienced, internationally minded professionals, across key operational functions. Having previously built teams here, I've seen the quality of talent firsthand. As we expand our operational footprint in EMEA, Ireland provides the expertise and infrastructure to help us scale effectively and sustainably." Michael Lohan, CEO of IDA Ireland said: 'I am delighted that Harvey is strengthening their footprint in Ireland with this new office and their plans to expand their workforce to 40 employees in Dublin. AI is a key focus area for IDA Ireland and this decision by Harvey highlights Ireland's strengths as a location for investment in innovative technology.' Harvey leaders are hosting customers and partners at its Dublin office this week to mark the official opening and to further strengthen collaboration across the region. About Harvey Harvey is the operating system for legal and professional services. Its products streamline workflows in areas including contract analysis, due diligence, compliance, and litigation to drive efficiency and value. Global law firms and Fortune 500 enterprises around the world use Harvey to enable faster, smarter decision-making. Backed by world-class investors including Sequoia, Kleiner Perkins, GV, OpenAI Startup Fund, Coatue, Andreessen Horowitz, GIC and EQT, Harvey is used by 1,300+ customers in 60+ countries.

Harvey, the legal tech giant, raised $1 billion in just one year! What makes it capable of challenging the 'OpenAI of the legal industry'? Mar 27, 2026, 06:07 PM [Original Text] In just over a year, the legal AI unicorn Harvey has raised nearly $1 billion to develop autonomous agent software and synthetic data, aiming to conquer the digital minds of top global law firms before other platforms invade. The fundraising momentum of legal AI startup Harvey feels more like training ChatGPT than selling software to lawyers. This legal AI company has raised almost $1 billion in just over a year, leading some to ask a simple question: What does it need so much money for? Since February last year, Harvey has publicly announced four rounds of financing, totaling about $960 million. For a company that doesn't develop cutting-edge models itself, this fundraising pace rivals OpenAI. The company recently completed a $200 million round, valuing it at $11 billion, just months after breaking the $8 billion valuation mark. Harvey's cash hoarding has its reasons. Co-founder and CEO Winston Weinberg told Business Insider, 'Most of the funds we've raised haven't been used yet.' He said these funds allow the company to accelerate new product launches. Recent advancements in cutting-edge models (especially in coding) have enabled Harvey to build features originally planned on its multi-year development roadmap in just a few months. Weinberg stated that this extra capital allows the company to adopt a 'more aggressive' strategy. Currently, Harvey has multiple internal teams composed of product managers, designers, and engineers, each focusing on different modules of the platform. This way, these teams can operate in parallel, pushing out more product versions simultaneously. Capital buys speed: Compressing a 'three-year plan' into one year, building a parallel R&D system for the legal industry. 'Things we originally planned to build in the next three years can now be completed in about one year,' he said. To achieve this, Harvey has recruited a series of senior executives. In February this year, the company hired Anique Drumwright as its first Chief Product Officer. Drumwright previously helped lead Rippling's expansion into IT management software. Weinberg noted that Rippling's ability to develop multiple business lines in parallel is a model for platform companies to emulate. Then, earlier this week, the company brought on Keith Enright, a former partner at a major law firm, as Chief Strategy Officer; he previously worked at the top-tier global firm Gibson Dunn. On Wednesday, Harvey stated that the new round of funding will also help develop more so-called 'agent' software. This type of software has the ability to autonomously execute multi-step tasks, requiring far more capital investment than the term 'software' superficially suggests. Part of this cost is technical development. To refine 'agent' software, the company needs methods to test their performance on real-world tasks and optimize accordingly. In coding, this process is relatively easy due to the abundance of public datasets and code libraries available for benchmarking. But Weinberg said that in the legal field, such datasets are extremely scarce. Overcoming the data gap: Building an irreplaceable professional moat with 'synthetic data' and 'AI agents'. For example, training on case law doesn't help AI agents draft fund establishment documents. Instead, Harvey must develop its own 'synthetic datasets' to simulate various professional legal tasks clients handle in reality. Then, run AI agents through these benchmarks and optimize the system based on the results. This process not only requires expensive computational resources but also a large team of engineers and product personnel to build and continuously improve the system. Money also buys speed. Harvey currently operates in a fiercely competitive red ocean market, with many companies rushing to sell AI solutions to law firms. This new injection of funds gives Harvey ample firepower to hire talent, build products, and expand its territory before the business becomes self-sustaining and generates enough profit to support investments. Weinberg said Harvey's annualized revenue is 'well over $200 million,' higher than the $190 million at the end of 2025. Competitive pressure is intensifying. Swedish startup Legora raised $550 million at a $5.5 billion valuation earlier this month, becoming a strong challenger to Harvey. However, Weinberg indicated that he sees model developers themselves as a bigger threat. In February, Anthropic launched a legal work plugin, immediately triggering a sharp sell-off in legal tech stocks. But lawyers are not ordinary users, and law firms are not clients with high error tolerance. Products must be precise, auditable, and tailored to fit the actual workflows of law firms. Harvey's big bet is to build the standardized workspace most trusted by top law firms before startups or underlying model developers catch up.