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Johnson Hana (previously Johnson Hana International) is a legal solutions company specialising in legal process outsourcing, legal managed services and "on-demand lawyers" for public, semi-state, corporate and SME clients. The company is headquartered in Dublin and was founded in 2015.The company is the first of its kind in Ireland providing alternative legal solutions. .

History
Johnson Hana was founded by barrister and former frontman of the band Lost in Flight Dan Fox in 2016 with the support of his brother Alex Fox. . In 2017 the company successfully raised €1 million from Enterprise Ireland, Voxpro’s Dan Kiely, one-time chairman of Allegro Brendan Coakley, and former partner at Matheson Stuart Margetson. Other prominent figures in corporate Ireland lent their backing to the business during this time. This included Brian Montague former chief executive of A&L Goodbody, and John O’Donnell, chief technology officer of Hostelworld, Tony Keohane chairman of Ervia and previously chief executive of Tesco Ireland, and former chairman of The Irish Times and one-time chief executive of Irish Life & Permanent David Went. Brian Montague, David Went and John O’Donnell were appointed as advisors of Johnson Hana at this time.

In 2019 the firm made multiple strategic hires and continued to grow, with Paul Ryan joining from Goodbody, and Emer Durkan former head of consumer protection at KBC joining the team. . In 2020 Johnson Hana Partnered with Kira Systems who offer artificial intelligence tools for contract review enhancing their ability to review large volumes of contracts. Niamh O'Mara former chief of staff at EY joined as chief operating officer in 2020, and Caroline Goulding, chief data protection officer at TikTok, joined as an advisor.

In 2020 Johnson Hana raised €3.5 million through a combination of equity and debt leveraging €3m in equity and €0.5m in debt. Specialist investment fund BVP led the round, with equity participation from existing shareholders Dan and Linda Kiely the founders of Voxpro, John Ryan a partner with PWC Hong Kong, leading UK software entrepreneur Finlay Ross and Tom Hickey former CFO at Tullow Oil & Cartrawler. The debt was provided by Ulster Bank. . The business is also backed by Enterprise Ireland who were an initial seed investor as part of their high potential startup funding programme. Early investors also reinvested.

Johnson Hana signed a 5 year framework deal for legal process outsourcing with Ervia and a multiyear framework deal with Coillte in 2020.

Services
The company specialises in streamlining repetitive process driven legal tasks such as reviewing commercial contracts, non-disclosure agreements, discovery and e-discovery in litigation, data subject access requests under GDPR, compulsory purchase orders for public bodies, legal research, and support in due diligence carried out in mergers and acquisitions. The company also provides "On-Demand Lawyers" which enables legal, complaints and compliance departments to scale up their team and access relevant legal expertise for a fixed period of time .The goal of this is to allow them to focus on core work, reduce time spent on legal issues and reduce legal spend.