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Former Greenberg Traurig M&A lawyer launches useABI, an AI 'associate' for deal teams
Abdulrasheed Ijaodola, a former Greenberg Traurig M&A lawyer, launched useABI, a legal AI platform designed to produce deal work product such as purchase agreement markups, issues lists and diligence reports without prompting, LawSites reported October 13, 2026. The multiplayer deal workspace received its first major deployment last week in a pilot at an unnamed Am Law 100 firm.
Key points
- Ijaodola said useABI delivers a purchase agreement markup, issues list, diligence report and diligence summary for a new deal in about 30 minutes.LawSites
- He said the issues list comes back in under five minutes at associate-level quality, with no prompting.LawSites
- The platform supports buy-side and sell-side deals and can populate deal context from an uploaded letter of intent.LawSites
- useABI uses frontier models from OpenAI, Anthropic and Google as processors but relies on its own M&A intelligence layer.LawSites
- Ijaodola left Greenberg Traurig in July; cofounder and CTO Adam Usman has more than a decade of software experience, including in banking.LawSites