How is Legal Geek supporting Ukraine?

Ukraine Legal Tech

The second thing we have planned is to carve out a dedicated area of our conference to showcase Ukrainian businesses. Having seen and heard of such resilience from the tech community in Ukraine, we are keen to provide exposure to the Legal Geek community.  One such company is Legal Nodes, a platform that helps innovative tech companies solve their legal needs, all in one place, and they have shown how they have adapted to the unprecedented times.

Their Co-Founder and CEO, Margarita Sivakova, has spoken openly about the war’s impact on the business. Pre-war, Legal Nodes was a partner across over 100 companies, many of which were based in Ukraine. After only two months of the war commencing, the company had lost 20% of its customers from Ukraine, so they had to think fast and expand into other markets, launching a new product line. In partnership with Finmap, they have been offering a free legal resource for Ukrainian entrepreneurs and ‘purchasing and delivering night vision devices, thermal imagers, tactical backpacks, and knee pads to the Ukrainian armed forces, and launching a charity NFT (non-fungible token) digital art project.’ Read article.

It has been amazing to see how they looked after their team throughout, paying salaries in advance, so the team had cash for the impending emergency, and organising a team-building event to keep morale high. 

In an interview with AIN.Capital, Margarita speaks about how her team fought on two fronts to both defend their country but also to save the company;

“Our marketing department shared the information about the war and corresponded with the media and our partners; our engineers joined the cyber army of Ukraine. At the same time, our legal department contacted every founder of Ukrainian startups that were clients of Legal Nodes to find out who required our aid. We also launched a communication campaign with foreign banks that started blocking our clients’ accounts because of the war.” Read article.