From start-up to trusted language service provider.

Our expertise in the language services sector dates far back, to a time when documents were still transmitted on floppy discs. What was once “state of the art”, soon became outdated as digital technology continued to advance apace. 

Our previous employer was stuck in its ways, producing legal translations by dictating, transcribing texts and subjecting them to multiple checks in a time-consuming and expensive process. We recognised the enormous potential that modern technologies offered: Trados and other CAT tools could not only improve but also speed up the translation process. We were intent on integrating them into the business model, but our pleas for progress fell on deaf ears.

It may be true that (some) old dogs can’t learn new tricks, but we refused to settle for the status quo and decided to change the game by spinning off and forming LINGUA LEGIS, a company that reflected our values and our vision for the future. But starting over is never easy. We worked tirelessly day and night, translating pleadings, contracts, an endless array of securities prospectuses prompted by the infamous dot-com boom, annual reports, term sheets and documentation relating to financing solutions for international capital markets. At the same time, we set about expanding our subject matter portfolio by bringing on expert financial translators with CPA and CFA qualifications to complement our lawyer linguists. And the hard work paid off. Within a very short time, LINGUA LEGIS had made a name for itself as a reliable partner for leading commercial law firms and financial institutions.

Over time, the performance of the stock markets has dictated the pace of our corporate change. Whenever the index fell, we used that momentum to grow and continue to refine our service portfolio in parallel with changes in the industry, never losing sight of our goal to meet the ever-increasing demands of our clients.

And with this very goal in mind, we expanded our portfolio to include new areas such as corporate communications and sustainability reports (ESG) as well as new services such as proofreading, transcreation, (post-)editing and audio/video projects. We also added a number of new language combinations, which are increasingly in demand on the European market.

But that also meant that reinforcement was necessary! Through a rigorous selection process, we have expanded our team to include highly-qualified translators, linguists, proofreaders, editors, copywriters and language service providers, which we proudly refer to as “language specialists”, because they do so much more than just translate words from one language into another.