Lexroom Buys French and Bulgarian Legal AI Firms as European Expansion Shifts to M&A

Lexroom has acquired France’s Query Juriste and Bulgaria’s Praven Intelekt, taking its legal AI platform into five European markets in its first M&A transactions. The deals, announced in September 2026, give the Italian company local products, legal data and established law-firm relationships in two jurisdictions. Financial terms were not disclosed.

The transactions mark a change in Lexroom’s expansion model. The company entered Germany and Spain organically, but chose acquisitions for France and Bulgaria, where legal technology must account for national legislation, case law, terminology and professional practice. That distinction matters in legal research, where a system’s usefulness depends less on a general-purpose model than on the quality, structure and currency of jurisdiction-specific sources. Lexroom’s approach places certified legal materials at the center of its platform rather than treating localization as an interface or translation exercise. The move also reflects a wider shift in European legal technology from building individual products toward assembling scale across fragmented national markets.