HAQQ
Lebanon-based legal technology company whose Justinian AI engine and eFirm product support drafting, research and practice management for law firms and institutions. It reported USD 3 million raised in February 2026.
Industry: Legal AI and practice management | Location: Lebanon | Founded: 2022 | Total Funding: USD 3M
About HAQQ
HAQQ is a legal technology company, described by Wamda as Lebanon-based, that builds an artificial intelligence platform for legal work. Its website presents it as a legal AI twin and practice management system. The company's core engine is called Justinian, which the site describes as an agentic layer that routes work across models from OpenAI, Anthropic and Google. Wamda reports that it was founded by Antoine Kanaan, chief executive, and Maitre Abbas Kabalan, chief legal officer.
Sources disagree on the founding year: Wamda and MENA Startup Digest say 2020, while Waya says 2022. The company's team page, which carries no date, lists Roc Khalil as chief technology officer, Joseph Samman as chief operating officer, Sherif Adnan as country director for Egypt and several vice presidents covering product, the Gulf Cooperation Council, sales and customer success. The page lists a four-member board chaired by Anatoli van der Krans.
The website lists a Legal AI chat product for drafting, redlining, research and diligence, and eFirm, a practice management product for matters, hearings, timesheets, billing and clients, along with a mobile app, eBar, eWallet and a client portal. Wamda adds institutional systems for bars, courts and regulators and legal AI twin systems for large enterprises. The site says the platform covers 56 jurisdictions and cites more than 17,000 legal teams, while Wamda cites more than 7,000 clients; both are company figures. HAQQ says it is compliant with, but not certified for, ISO/IEC 42001, ISO/IEC 27001 and the SOC 2 Trust Services Criteria.
In February 2026 Wamda reported that HAQQ had raised USD 3 million to date, in a round led by Sowlutions Ventures with HITEK Ventures, Corona Legal, IM FNDNG, Highworth, Razor Capital, SYMAX and Hamady Trust. The company said it would use the funds to advance its legal AI and agent architecture, expand enterprise and institutional deployments, strengthen security and compliance, and grow its engineering, product and go-to-market teams.
Wamda says HAQQ currently has a presence in Egypt and Jordan and plans to expand across the Middle East and North Africa and selected global markets.
Leadership
- Antoine Kanaan, Co-founder and CEO
- Abbas Kabalan, Co-founder and Chief Legal Officer
- Rami Abi Nader, CEO & Co-founder
- Roc Khalil, Chief Technology Officer
- Joseph Samman, Chief Operating Officer
- Stephane Boghossian, Head of Growth
- Sherif Adnan, Country Director, Egypt
- Steve Hoyek, Vice President, Product