From shared vision to one company
What started as a shared belief in the need for better tools for legal teams has evolved into a strategic combination designed to reshape how legal work gets done.
ClauseBase and LawVu first connected in early 2025, quickly discovering a common passion for innovating the legal function and enabling legal teams to operate as true business partners. Both companies shared a clear vision: legal technology should eliminate friction, not add to it, and should empower lawyers to focus on higher‑value work.
By mid‑2025, that shared vision translated into action. The two companies formed a commercial partnership and began building a deep product integration. From the outset, the fit was evident – not only in how the products complemented one another, but also in the alignment between the teams, their cultures, and their long‑term ambitions.
By the end of 2025, ClauseBase and LawVu decided to take the next step and move forward as one company. The acquisition enables accelerated product development, deeper platform integration, and faster expansion of capabilities, all with a single goal: delivering even greater value to legal teams worldwide.
Strategic combination with LawVu: a one-of-a-kind drafting-plus-workflow suite
Through the acquisition, ClauseBase becomes part of LawVu’s global legal software platform, which serves legal teams across multiple continents. ClauseBase brings unparalleled capabilities for drafting, redlining, analysing, and re-drafting contracts and other legal documents at scale. LawVu, meanwhile, is the global leader in workflow software for legal teams, providing unified tools for intake, matters, contracts, documents, spend management, and collaboration.
Together, we eliminate the fragmented “single-function tool” landscape legal teams often face. Instead, legal professionals gain a seamless, AI-native environment in which work can be created, managed, reviewed, negotiated, and tracked from one secure platform; a unique drafting-plus-workflow suite.
Maarten Truyens, founder and CEO of ClauseBase:
"ClauseBase was built to bring a much-needed efficiency and quality boost to contract drafting and reviewing work. By joining forces with LawVu, our software will be able to tap into the LawVu ecosystem, taking our initial mission to even greater heights and offering a solution that is unmatched in the legal market. We couldn't be more excited for it!"
Sam Kidd, CEO of LawVu:
“The acquisition of ClauseBase reinforces our vision for a more embedded, end-to-end approach to legal AI. We're empowering legal teams to accelerate deal cycles and proactively manage risk, while optimising external counsel spend - elevating the legal function to an essential strategic partner, and ultimately driving better business outcomes.”
What’s next
The acquisition marks the beginning of an exciting new chapter for both ClauseBase and LawVu customers.
Existing ClauseBase customers can expect continuity in the product they rely on today, combined with access to LawVu’s world-class global support organisation. This transition reflects a shared, long-term commitment to legal teams to deliver the highest possible level of service. No changes there!
From a product perspective, the combined teams are already working on new capabilities that will empower lawyers to fully leverage the knowledge embedded in their LawVu platform. This includes tighter connections between drafting and matter context, smarter reuse of institutional knowledge, and AI-driven insights that flow seamlessly from intake and workflows into document creation and review.
Ultimately, the goal goes beyond technology. By removing friction from everyday legal work, the combined ClauseBase and LawVu platform is designed to improve the lives of lawyers everywhere – helping them spend less time on repetitive, manual tasks and more time applying their judgment, expertise, and strategic thinking where it matters most.
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About ClauseBase
About ClauseBase
ClauseBase offers the most complete drafting toolbox for legal professionals, combining cutting-edge automation, AI-powered reviewing, and a seamless Word integration into one powerful platform. Built by lawyers for lawyers, ClauseBase helps legal teams draft, refine, and review complex documents faster, smarter, and more consistently, without ever leaving Microsoft Word.
To learn more, visit www.clausebase.com and follow the company on LinkedIn.
About LawVu
LawVu is the first truly connected AI-powered software platform for in-house legal teams, founded in Tauranga in 2015 by Sam Kidd and Tim Boyne, and has scaled rapidly with offices in New Zealand, Australia, the US, UK and Ireland. Its all-in-one workspace helps legal teams manage entire workflows across intake, matters, contracts, and spend.
To learn more, visit www.lawvu.com and follow the company on LinkedIn.
