The AI-native alternative to M&A law firms

Built by engineers. Signed by lawyers.

Duely handles the legal M&A work from A to Z. We engineer the process and carry responsibility for the outcome. For the client nothing changes, except the turnaround time and the invoice.

You instruct us the way you would instruct a lawyer. You give us access to the data room, and our engineers and lawyers go to work. Nothing to install, nothing to learn, no change to how your team operates. You get the same deliverables, faster and at a price agreed upfront.

No change management, no new tool, just the results you need.

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Trusted by

The Duely Tandem

The future of work

Michiel Van Lerbeirghe, Co-Founder of Duely

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Engineers and experts in one room, actually doing the work together - that is the future of services. It creates the shortest possible feedback loop, driving compounding efficiency and quality with every deal.
Michiel Van Lerbeirghe
Co-Founder | GTM Lead

Discover the Duely tandem

From A to Z

How we support your M&A transaction

One tandem across the entire deal - from single acquisitions to roll-ups, add-ons and buy-and-build programmes. Pick and choose where you leverage us: engage us for a single step, or let us own the whole journey, on the buy-side or the sell-side.

Step 01

Sell-side

Data room preparation

We build or clean up the data room: a tailored index, consistent naming across every document, a gap analysis against the request list and a legal sanity check - before anyone else looks.

Step 02

Sell-sideBuy-side

Legal due diligence & Q&A

Full buy-side or vendor due diligence across all workstreams, with the information request list and Q&A run alongside - single targets as well as roll-ups, add-ons and buy-and-build programmes. Red flags, zoom-in memos and a key findings report.

Step 03

Sell-sideBuy-side

Transaction documents

The diligence flows straight into the documents. SPA, APA, carve-outs and cross-border mergers: we draft, review and support the negotiation, so findings become protections.

Step 04

Sell-sideBuy-side

Signing & closing

We stay on the deal through signing: closing checklists, conditions precedent, pre-closing obligations - until the deal is actually done.

Step 05

Buy-side

Beyond closing

Post-closing action points, corporate housekeeping and standing arrangements for recurring work - including the integration of add-on acquisitions. We stay useful after the ink dries.

Tired of the Billable Hour?

Wake up to the duely alternative

The billable hour is not just a pricing model, it is an incentive structure. When revenue equals time spent, efficiency is a cost: every hour saved is an hour that can no longer be billed. A fixed fee does not change that logic either - it is calibrated on the same cost base, by the same firms.

That is why AI will not fix legal services from the inside. Law firms are adopting the technology, but no firm rebuilds its own business model to pass the gains on. The efficiency lands in the margin. It rarely reaches the client.

Because today, there is no justifying not working with AI where it clearly delivers major efficiency gains. Moreover, those gains should directly benefit the client.

Duely is built the other way around. We are a tech company that engineers M&A legal work, with legal experts who stand behind every deliverable. Automation is not a threat to our model - it is our model. Every efficiency we engineer flows straight to you: the same quality, in a fraction of the time, at a fraction of the cost.

Why Duely

What sets us apart

We are an engineering firm that does the legal work for M&A transactions. In essence, we do the work ourselves - but we put our agentic AI tooling to use to do it efficiently, taking full responsibility for every deliverable.

TLDR

Not a traditional law firm.

Engineering at core. Our deliverables are produced by an engine we build and improve, not by a pyramid of associates.
AI-native. Not AI-adopting: the whole workflow was designed around the technology from day one.
A tech company reinventing legal services. We improve like software improves - every deal makes the engine better.
The shortest feedback loops. You talk directly to the tandem doing the work. No partner-to-junior relay.
A different business model. Transparent, upfront pricing principles. Inefficiency is carried by us, not by you.

TLDR

Not a legal tech tool.

The full workflow. Not a feature for one step of the deal: from data room preparation to closing, the entire chain.
We do the work. No software for your team to learn, run and double-check. You instruct; we deliver.
80 versus 100. Tools take you 80% of the way and leave the hardest part with you. We deliver the 100%.
We take the responsibility. A signed deliverable you can rely on - just like your lawyer, unlike your software.

The Duely mission

The world is changing

We strongly believe that “people like to do business with people”, especially in high-stakes industries like M&A, finance and legal.

On the other hand, in today's AI age, certain services cannot be justified to be performed manually and billed by the hour.

It is Duely's goal to provide such services by using and developing its own proprietary technology. You will work together with our consultants who will deliver lightning fast and high-quality delivery for a fair and transparent price.

Our company story

Don't just take our word for it

Do your diligence

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Duely is incredibly fast and the quality is outstanding. The Duely team doesn’t just process documents - they bring the required M&A expertise, and tailor the deliverables to the client’s needs.

Maaike Janssen

Founder, CorporateWise

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The deliverable was exactly what we were looking for - clear, structured, and immediately usable. Just like a deliverable from a top law firm. Duely reviewed over 9,500 pages across 430 documents covering 100+ assets and delivered a portfolio overview we could act on right away.

Anoushka Hylkema

General Counsel, FincoEnergies

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AI has now reached a stage where it offers real, tangible benefits, and we see it as fundamental to the future of how virtual data rooms will be used. Duely’s expertise aligns closely with our own, and we are very excited about this strategic partnership.

Stephen Dobson

CRO, Sterling Technology