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Ligo: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Ligo is a contract lifecycle management platform for drafting, negotiating, signing and managing legal documents. It is sold to small and mid-sized businesses as well as to large enterprises, with the aim of improving productivity and collaboration between the stakeholders involved in a contract. The company was founded in 2015, and the Stanford CodeX TechIndex lists it under document management and automation, with corporate legal departments as its target market.

Ligo is a Dutch company headquartered in Amsterdam. In October 2024 it was acquired by Your.Online as part of a merger with Firm24, and founder Wendy Bogers stepped down as CEO in December 2024, so the current ownership differs from the original founder-led structure. The software is proprietary. Ligo's hosting location and sub-processors are not stated in the public sources reviewed, so a European organisation should confirm the hosting region, the processors involved and the ultimate ownership in the data processing agreement before relying on the platform for sensitive contracts.

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Sovereignty score
71 / 1000 = high exposure
100 = sovereign
  • Jurisdiction SOV-2100
    Headquartered in the EU: European law applies
  • Data residency SOV-3100
    EU-only hosting
  • Cryptographic key sovereignty SOV-360
    Key management with a European vendor
  • Freedom from lock-in SOV-640
    Closed source: switching requires data migration
  • Source & runtime sovereignty SOV-4 · SOV-655
    Closed source, runtime with the vendor

SOV codes: the matching objective in the European Commission's Cloud Sovereignty Framework. Official source

How the score is calculated

Facts and evidence

Last checked October 5, 2026
Headquarters
NL (EU)Verified by hand
Sovereignty model
Vendor-hosted (EU)Verified by hand
Data hosting
EUVerified by hand
Open-source
NoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant
YesVendor-stated
Category
Legal Tech
Type
Product
Website
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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to Ligo

The European alternatives to Ligo come from our knowledge base of over 6,800 vendors. We only list vendors headquartered in the EU or the EEA; fully European-owned vendors rank before vendors with a foreign owner. For each alternative you see the country, the open-source status and a short description.

Score per alternative: 0 = high exposure, 100 = sovereign

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Why digital sovereignty matters with Ligo

Ligo is headquartered in NL and therefore falls under European law: the GDPR, NIS2 and the Data Act. No foreign legislation can compel access to your data.

Data is hosted exclusively in the EU, so Ligo scores best on data residency.

Ligo is closed source and hosted by the vendor. The encryption keys and the runtime sit with the vendor and switching requires data migration. Ask about bring-your-own-key, export options and open standards.

What this means for your organisation depends on your whole stack and context. The free assessment weighs Ligo together with your other vendors and gives a total score, a heatmap and the main risk drivers.

Frequently asked questions

What is the best European alternative to Ligo?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to Ligo include Advolux, Advoware and Bayshore. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to Ligo?

Our list of EU alternatives to Ligo is mostly commercial options. Browse the category on the map for open-source choices.

Is Ligo GDPR-compliant and where is the data hosted?

Ligo is headquartered in NL (EU) and hosts data in EU. That makes Ligo an EU-sovereign choice in its own right; the EU alternatives on this page are comparable European tools.

Details and sources

Verified by handHeadquarters, owner, hosting locations and licence have been checked by us against public sources. Free of charge and for every vendor, not a paid label. Nothing in this knowledge base is taken over automatically. Last checked on October 5, 2026.

Sources

Public sources used in the latest check of this record.

Compliance evidence

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