Noxtua wins legal tech expert

Legal expert and software developer Johannes Maurer joins Europe's sovereign Legal AI company

Johannes Maurer becomes Director of Legal Solutions & Workflows at Noxtua
The legal tech specialist previously held leading positions at Aleph Alpha and BRYTER
AI scaleup Noxtua consolidates its position as Europe's sovereign Legal AI with the addition of the legal tech specialist

BERLIN, September 17, 2025 – AI company Noxtua, developer of Europe's sovereign Legal AI, wins the German legal tech expert Johannes Maurer.

Johannes Maurer is coming from Aleph Alpha to AI scaleup Noxtua as Director of Legal Solutions & Workflows. The lawyer and software developer was most recently Solutions Principal Legal & Compliance at the Heidelberg-based AI startup and was previously part of the management team at legal tech provider BRYTER. He founded the legal research platform gesetze.io and worked as a lawyer at the international law firm Hogan Lovells, where he was also a member of their legal tech task force. In his newly created position at Europe's leading Legal AI company, the experienced legal tech specialist's responsibilities include developing AI-based, customer-oriented solutions for the legal sector.

"With Johannes Maurer, we are gaining an outstanding personality who perfectly complements our strategic orientation and will continue to drive Noxtua's growth course forward. With Europe's sovereign Legal AI, we are demonstrating that it is possible to combine powerful AI with European values such as data protection, transparency, and the rule of law — and with his addition, we are adding further expertise for ‘AI Made in Europe’," explains Dr. Leif-Nissen Lundbæk (CEO & Co-Founder Noxtua).

About Noxtua

Noxtua is Europe's sovereign Legal AI. This legally competent AI covers the entire spectrum of legal work – from information gathering (“research”) and analysis of complex issues (‘understanding’) to document creation (“drafting”). The legally compliant AI meets the professional, criminal, and data protection requirements for lawyers (Section 203 German Criminal Code, Section 43e German Federal Code for Lawyers) and is certified according to ISO 27001, 9001, 27018, 27017, 42001, and BSI C5. Developed in collaboration with Germany's leading legal publishing house, Legal AI Workspace Beck-Noxtua is the only AI system that exclusively integrates the legal content of C.H.Beck, combined with content from Erich Schmidt Verlag that is particularly relevant to civil service law.

Founded in 2017 in the German capital as a result of a research project by Dr. Leif-Nissen Lundbæk and Professor Dr. Michael Huth at Oxford University and Imperial College London, the legal tech company has many years of experience in developing GDPR-compliant AI solutions and now has offices in Berlin, Paris, and Zagreb. Strategic partners including Germany’s leading legal publisher C.H.Beck, the High-Performance Computing specialist Northern Data, Germany’s largest business law firm and co-initiator of the Legal AI Noxtua CMS, as well as Dentons as one of the world’s largest law firms, have invested in the German scale-up as part of its Series B funding round – with a total of € 80.7 million Europe's largest investment round for Legal AI.