Mannheimer Swartling is pleased to welcome Stilta to MSA Innovation Lab
Mannheimer Swartling welcomes Stilta to MSA Innovation Lab, the firm’s legal tech incubator. The collaboration forms part of the firm’s long-term investment in innovation, AI and the development of next-generation legal services.
MSA Innovation Lab is the hub of Mannheimer Swartling’s innovation efforts and focuses on driving digital development within business law. Its work includes, among other things, generative AI, the automation of legal processes, and the development of new digital tools that strengthen clients’ businesses. Through the incubator, the firm collaborates with selected entrepreneurs and legal tech companies to jointly explore and develop the legal solutions of the future.
Stilta is a Swedish start-up developing AI solutions for work including patent litigation. The company has recently returned from San Francisco, where it participated in Y Combinator, one of the world’s most prestigious start-up accelerators. Stilta’s platform uses agentic AI to analyse large volumes of technical and legal information, enabling precise, source-based analysis, efficient workflows, and increased transparency in complex intellectual property processes.
Through the collaboration, Mannheimer Swartling will work closely with Stilta contributing legal expertise and practical experience from client work to the development of Stilta’s AI solutions. The aim is to explore how new technology can improve quality, efficiency and commercial value in legal services, particularly in patents, innovation and technology-intensive industries.
“The collaboration with Stilta is a clear example of how we were already thinking when we founded MSA Innovation Lab in 2017, namely that we want to work closely with entrepreneurs in legal tech and involve them in our own business development. By combining legal expertise with new technology, we can create solutions that genuinely transform how legal services are delivered”, says Jan Dernestam, outgoing Managing Partner at Mannheimer Swartling. “This work will now accelerate further as my partner colleague Henrik Dock shortly takes over from me as Managing Partner”, Jan continues. “Henrik has extensive knowledge of, and a strong focus on, how Mannheimer Swartling will continue to remain at the very forefront globally in terms of how AI applications are actually used in day-to-day operations.”
“AI is advancing rapidly and creating significant opportunities for the legal sector. Through collaborations like this, we can test and further develop new tools that strengthen both our own practice and our clients’ businesses, particularly in patents and intellectual property”, says Jesper Yngvesson, AI Lead.