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Built in Africa · For in-house legal teams

The legal operating system for Africa.

Track matters, manage agreements, and stay ahead of contract expiry — in one system. Purpose-built for in-house legal teams across Africa and the external counsel they work with.

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Designed for how legal actually works in Africa.

A Nigerian in-house legal counsel working at her desk on Taro

The problem

Legal work in Africa is still fragmented.

Emails, shared folders, Excel trackers, WhatsApp threads, missed deadlines. The tools most teams reach for were never built for the complexity of African jurisdictions — or for the way in-house teams and external counsel actually work together.

Email threadsShared drivesExcel trackersWhatsApp updatesPhysical case filesCalendar reminders
The result: nothing lives in one place, and the board brief takes two days to assemble.

From the legal teams doing the work

We didn’t build legal software for Africa. We built it from Africa.

“Before Taro, there was no single place to see what was actually happening across our matters. Now everything is structured, and we finally have the reporting accuracy the board asks for.”
Portrait of a Nigerian barrister in robe and wig
Head of Legal
Tier-1 Nigerian bank · in-house team of 18

One platform

Three powerful systems.

Everything your legal team needs — matters, agreements, and renewals — finally in one place. No more stitching together email, Excel, shared drives, and calendar reminders.

MatterDesk

Matter management, end to end.

Centralise every matter from instruction to resolution, with real-time visibility for your whole team and the external counsel on the file.

  • Log new matter
  • External counsel invite
  • Hearing tracking
DealVault

Every agreement, in one repository.

Loan agreements, vendor contracts, board resolutions — in a single secure, searchable, customer-indexed vault that’s always accessible.

  • Nested vaults
  • Customer-indexed search
  • Audit trail
TermWatch

Never miss a deadline again.

Automated alerts for contract expiries, renewals, and critical milestones at 90, 30, and 7 days — so nothing lapses unnoticed.

  • Expiry reminders
  • Approval workflow
  • Vendor visibility

Live preview

A workspace that feels calm.

Everything you open — matter, contract, document — respects your attention. Information-dense without being noisy.

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Matters

All litigation matters in one place

Log new matter
Suit no.MatterCounselDamagesStatus
FHC/L/CS/0192/2024Acme Bank vs Greenline LtdAdebayo & Co.₦90,000,000ongoing
LD/ADR/117/2025Nora Udeze vs Acme BankOkafor Partners₦17,000,000open
ABJ/CV/0456/2024EFCC vs Acme Bank ComplianceDL Chambers—ongoing
LD/COM/402/2024Redstar Logistics — RecoveryAdebayo & Co.₦42,500,000judgment

Why Taro

Most legal software was built for systems that don’t exist here.

Built for external counsel coordination

Most tools assume one company, one team. Taro is built for the reality: external counsel see only their assigned matters, your team sees everything, finance only touches TermWatch.

Made for paper and digital, together

Legal here moves between court bundles, shared folders, and email. Taro keeps matters, agreements, and updates in one structured place — so the board brief is two clicks away, not two days.

Less high-volume manual chasing

Find anything by customer, suit number, or counsel in seconds, and let renewals and hearing dates surface on their own — instead of living in someone’s inbox.

Powered by Taro AI

Contextual legal intelligence, built into your workflow.

Generate case summaries and matter reports in seconds. Taro AI is grounded in the African legal context, so the insights it surfaces actually fit your jurisdiction — not someone else’s.

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See how it works in your team.

Stand up your workspace in minutes. Bring your team and your external counsel into one place, and start logging matters the same day.

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