Cologne’s DeepL has struck a deal with legal AI startup Harvey that will see it handle more than a third of the company’s document translation volume.
Harvey, which competes with Swedish rival Legora, serves more than 2,000 lawyers across over 2,400 organizations. Cross-border legal work depends on translating contracts, filings, briefs, evidence and client materials quickly and accurately, even when documents are long or highly complex.
The Cologne firm, best known for AI translation and writing tools, has branched into voice-to-voice translation and counts SoftBank and Mazda among its clients. It is one of several translation partners Harvey uses, and Taylor Wessing sits in its legal customer base.
The partnership fits DeepL’s push into heavily regulated industries such as legal, financial services, pharmaceuticals and life sciences, where it argues accuracy and security matter most. That strategy comes after the company cut 250 employees earlier this year.
Founder and CEO Jarek Kutylowski said the deal brings DeepL’s specialized language AI to more legal teams working across borders every day.
For Harvey, the tie-up deepens the infrastructure behind its agentic legal work as enterprise demand for specialized AI in law keeps climbing.
