Webber Wentzel Launches Technology Subsidiary - Fusion

Fusion delivers innovation grounded in legal insight and lived experience. Unlike detached internal innovation teams or licence-only technology providers, it operates across the full legal AI value chain as a digital solution architect, advisory and implementation partner and product reseller to clients, lawyers and vendors in equal measure. This model reinforces operational credibility and ensures solutions are shaped by hundreds of active mandates across complex, regulated environments.

The result is a rare, 360-degree applied AI capability that anticipates implementation challenges, navigates technical and regulatory complexity, and delivers outcomes that work in practice - not just in theory.

Webber Wentzel's decision to scale Fusion as a separate entity is driven by client demand for practical technology enablement, and strong market interest from both clients and technology vendors in the firm’s Legal Innovation Lab. The move marks the next chapter for the firm that has spent nearly a decade building, testing and refining alternative solutions for the legal sector in Africa, and which has won the Innovation Award at the African Legal Awards in both 2024 and 2025.

The decision signals an expansion of its business model. Its AI and innovation arm, Fusion, will now operate as a standalone subsidiary with a broader mandate and suite of solutions.

"Our AI solutions are built around how legal work actually gets done," said Aalia Manie, Partner and the Director of Fusion. "By embedding legal expertise directly into AI delivery, we help organisations move beyond experimentation to AI solutions that are both governable and effective at scale."

The above is from the firm's website article.