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What is Emma Legal?
Emma Legal is an AI-powered platform that automates complex M&A legal due diligence. By analyzing contracts and flagging clause-level risks, it delivers structured, shareable reports that cut due diligence time by up to 50%.
How does Emma Legal support legal due diligence?
Emma automates legal due diligence by simultaneously scanning your data room documents, identifying missing or incomplete files, and highlighting clause-level legal risks. This automation frees legal teams and investors to concentrate on high-value analysis and deal negotiations.
Who is Emma Legal built for?
Emma Legal is designed for M&A professionals, including law firms, private equity and venture capital investors, and in-house legal teams. It supports teams handling multiple deals who need fast, accurate legal insights without compromising on quality.
How accurate is Emma Legal’s AI when reviewing legal documents?
Emma’s AI is designed with one core principle: Don’t miss the needle in the haystack.
Instead of making risky assumptions about what’s important, our system surfaces all potentially relevant issues, so legal teams can make informed decisions with full context without needing to read every contract from start to finish.
Under the hood, we use the most advanced large language models (LLMs) available, models that lead industry benchmarks for legal and contract analysis. Combined with our proprietary legal workflows and structured outputs, this ensures both depth and breadth in document review.
In short, Emma is engineered for completeness, transparency, and control. Legal professionals consistently report that Emma finds critical issues faster without sacrificing quality or oversight.
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