Avvoka develops AI-powered drafting infrastructure that helps law firms turn legal documents into structured templates, enabling teams to automate and scale high-volume legal drafting while maintaining consistency, governance, and oversight.
UK-based legaltech platform Avvoka has secured £14 million in growth funding in a round led by Valhalla Ventures, founded by Mark and Lindy O’Hare.
Avvoka develops AI-powered drafting infrastructure for law firms, helping legal teams convert legal documents into structured templates that can be reused and refined over time.
Its automation engine uses large language models to identify variables, clauses, and conditions, while built-in controls ensure drafts remain consistent with a firm’s established standards. The system is designed to support high-volume legal work that requires high accuracy.
The company was founded by former Magic Circle lawyers Eliot Benzecrit and David Howorth, who developed the platform by working with large legal organisations to convert precedent and institutional knowledge into structured drafting systems. Rather than replacing existing processes, Avvoka integrates AI into the rules-based automation frameworks commonly used by law firms.
Eliot Benzecrit, co-founder of Avvoka, said advances in AI are changing the pace of legal drafting, as rising client expectations and increasing workloads make traditional document-by-document automation less scalable. He added that law firms increasingly require drafting infrastructure that combines AI capabilities with structured processes, governance, and human oversight in order to maintain quality while scaling output:
Avvoka exists to build that infrastructure. We help legal teams turn their knowledge into structured, supervised systems that increase output while protecting their edge.
The investment follows recent expansion for the company and comes as law firms increasingly explore operational uses of generative AI. Avvoka has focused on developing infrastructure designed to support structured drafting processes that incorporate governance and oversight.
The new funding will be used to expand Avvoka’s presence in the United States and further develop the platform’s capabilities to support high-volume legal work while maintaining consistency.