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Athena
The AI-native law firm for M&A and commercial real estate.
Athena is an AI-native law firm for repeat M&A and commercial real estate dealmakers. Our founding team brings together 4 early Legora team members and 2 experienced BigLaw partners. We built our own technology to execute transactions at fixed fees, so faster delivery directly improves our margins. The platform is already live on client work. In our first five weeks, we secured 16 account relationships across signed engagements and design partnerships, with approximately $700,000 in committed legal fees.
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Meet the Team
Co-Founder, CEO at Athena
Cem Ucan
ex-Legora founding legal engineer. Helped scale Legora to its first $100M ARR, closing and owning many of the largest enterprise accounts (Cleary, Goodwin, Linklaters, Norton Rose Fulbright). Former Baker McKenzie attorney and legal tech lead.
Co-founder & CTO at Athena
Kieran John Keenan
ex-Legora founding evals engineer and member of technical staff. Built and scaled Legora’s evaluation function end to end, working across engineering teams to develop the eval infrastructure, operations, and systems underpinning every AI feature, from drafting and research to agentic workflows. Partnered closely with frontier model providers on deploying new models and building AI agents for law. Previously founded a legal AI startup building automated legal reasoning systems. Studied law at the University of Oslo in Norway.