Combining Global Legal Intelligence with Unparalleled Research and Data
London, UK – 26 November 2025 – Legal 500, the leading global legal benchmarking platform, is pleased to announce its acquisition of Mondaq, the knowledge-sharing platform renowned for its expert intelligence on legal, regulatory, tax, and financial matters.
This acquisition brings together Legal 500's data-driven research capabilities with Mondaq's rich AI-enabled intelligence, data and analytics, creating a uniquely powerful resource for legal professionals, in-house counsel, and businesses worldwide.
Legal 500's research team - comprising of over 150 researchers, technologists, and data analysts - already processes more than 60,000 law-firm submissions annually and analyses confidential feedback from over 300,000 corporate clients. By integrating Mondaq's thought leadership, expert analysis and unique readership data, Legal 500 will offer even more robust, real-time intelligence into trends and developments across jurisdictions, as well as provide actionable insights for supporting revenue growth.
Our mission is to empower both buyers and sellers in the legal market to make better decisions. The acquisition of Mondaq strengthens this mission, enabling users to access comprehensive benchmarking and expert intelligence all in one place, improving outcomes for law firms, in-house legal teams, and corporate decision-makers.
Legal 500 already operates in over 100 countries, and its proprietary, constantly updated data set is recognised as the only source of its kind with such depth. By bringing in Mondaq's large, global network of contributors and the buy-side readership data and analytics, the combined platform will expand its presence in key markets, such as the USA, Canada and the UK.
Tony Harriss, Executive Chair of Legal 500, commented: "The acquisition of Mondaq marks an exciting evolution for Legal 500. We are combining our world-class benchmarking and research capabilities with Mondaq's outstanding information, network and data to create a truly integrated intelligence platform. This strengthens our ability to help clients navigate complex legal purchasing decisions, and law firms to make more informed strategic choices."
Tim Harty, CEO of Mondaq, added: "Joining forces with Legal 500 is a natural alignment and a great strategic fit. Our contributors produce timely, practical insight that is relied upon by in-house counsel and executives globally, whilst law firms depend on our analytics platform to help drive client retention and acquisition. With Legal 500's trusted platform, we can amplify the impact of that intelligence, as well as enhance our compelling data proposition."
Legal 500 was advised by Osborne Clarke and Sequence Advisers.
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