Partner and ELTEMATE Co-CEO Sebastian Lach featured in The Lawyer’s Hot 100

The Lawyer’s 'Hot 100' list is an annual list celebrating the most impactful, innovative, and influential lawyers whose work is making a significant impact right now.

Sebastian Lach was recognised for his leadership of ELTEMATE, Hogan Lovells’ AI-driven legal tech venture, which has evolved into one of the most commercially successful firm-built legal technology platforms on the market. As partner and Co-CEO, Sebastian has been instrumental in driving ELTEMATE’s growth beyond the firm, positioning it as a global business with a clear focus on scale, adoption, and real-world client impact.

Over the past year, Sebastian has led a decisive expansion of ELTEMATE’s operations and reach. In 2025, the business surpassed 100 employees, recorded thousands of monthly active users, and launched full operating entities in Singapore and Brazil, marking a major step in its international growth. Under his joint leadership, ELTEMATE’s proprietary AI platform, ELTEMATE CRAIG, has become embedded in legal workflows and is now moving into its agentic phase, supporting increasingly complex use cases.

ELTEMATE’s Regulatory Pilot has also emerged as a key offering for multinational clients, tracking regulatory change across dozens of jurisdictions and reducing irrelevant information by up to 90 per cent. Through a strong emphasis on commercial execution and client value, Sebastian has helped ELTEMATE firmly outgrow its origins as an internal platform and establish itself as a serious global legal tech venture.

Sebastian appears on the Hot 100 list alongside our CEO Miguel Zaldivar, who is commended for his leadership, vision and investments into key markets for the firm and Jo Robinson, partner at Hogan Lovells, who is praised as one of the defining figures in the firm’s finance practice, having built a highly diversified and resilient lender-side offering. We are especially proud to note that our firm received the highest number of nominations this year, underscoring the outstanding talent and impact of our firm.

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