iDenfy, a global RegTech firm known for its identity verification and fraud prevention solutions, has entered into a partnership with Legaline in the UAE. Legaline, touted as the region's first LegalTech platform, aims to enhance its client onboarding process by integrating iDenfy's automated identity verification and Anti-Money Laundering (AML) screening.
This collaboration allows Legaline to conduct real-time verification of clients worldwide, supporting its Safe Deal payment system, wherein client funds are securely held and released only after both parties have signed a closing act. This ensures that clients pay only for completed services, fostering trust between clients and UAE-licensed lawyers.
Streamlining client onboarding
The legal market in the UAE is characterised by its complex jurisdictional landscape, encompassing federal laws, diverse emirate-level systems, and two common-law financial centres, among other zones.
The legal market in the UAE is characterised by its complex jurisdictional landscape
Given that approximately 88 percent of the UAE's population comprises foreign nationals, many newcomers require legal assistance but often struggle to navigate the county’s intricate legal framework. Legaline positions itself as more than a product; it's an ecosystem integrating three seamless layers: an AI layer for legal research, a marketplace layer for connecting clients to verified UAE lawyers, and a trust layer, Safe Deal, for secure payment handling.
Enhancing identity verification
For the Legaline platform to function effectively, it is essential that all clients are accurately identified. iDenfy's sophisticated identity verification solutions cater to this need by supporting over 16,000 document types from more than 200 countries and territories. Legaline accommodates clients presenting various forms of identification, such as passports and national ID cards, ensuring a smooth and secure verification process.
Information security is a paramount concern, as identity documents contain sensitive data. iDenfy is ISO 27001 certified for information security management, maintains GDPR compliance, and routinely undergoes audits to ensure data processing safety. The company’s CEO, Domantas Ciulde, remarked, “Legaline is solving a genuinely hard problem, connecting clients and lawyers across one of the most complex legal markets in the world. Our role is straightforward. Every client on their platform needs to be verified quickly and accurately, no matter which country issued their documents, so that trust can be established from the first interaction.”
Ensuring authentic submissions
Behind iDenfy's automation, a dedicated team works around the clock to review flagged registrations
Behind iDenfy's automation, a dedicated team works around the clock to review flagged registrations, discerning valid from fraudulent submissions. This blend of automated and manual checks keeps the onboarding process efficient, allowing for endless client verifications while controlling costs, as charges apply only to successful verifications. Legaline, seeking rapid integration when selecting an identity verification partner, cited quick integration as a key factor in choosing iDenfy.
Dmitry Grinik, Founder of Legaline, emphasised the importance of trust in legal work, particularly in the UAE, “Bringing iDenfy in as our identity verification partner was not a hard decision. Legal work runs on trust, and in the UAE, where most of our clients are newcomers, that trust has to be built into the platform itself rather than earned slowly through referrals. iDenfy lets us verify clients from any country in the world through a single flow, which means our lawyers can take on a new client with confidence from the very first message.”
Complying with international standards
In addition to identity verification, iDenfy's AML screening helps Legaline maintain compliance with international sanctions and watch lists, essential for the operations of its Safe Deal system.
Legaline also ensures thorough verification of its partner lawyers through onboarding processes based on UAE legal licensing and Stripe’s Know Your Business (KYB) protocols. This dual layer of KYC and KYB verification ensures professional reliability and has helped Legaline resolve various operational challenges, such as securing client identities and elevating marketplace credibility.
iDenfy, a global RegTech company focusing on identity verification and fraud prevention solutions, announced a new partnership with the Legaline platform, the UAE’s first LegalTech service platform.
By integrating iDenfy’s automated identity verification and Anti-Money Laundering (AML) screening into its client onboarding flow, Legaline can now virtually verify clients from any country in real time. This supports the Safe Deal payment system, where client funds are held and released only once both parties sign a closing act, so clients pay only for completed work to build trust between clients and UAE-licensed lawyers.
Client onboarding flow
Legal services in the UAE operate in one of the most jurisdictionally complex markets in the world, which include federal legislation, seven separate emirate-level systems, two common-law financial centres in the DIFC and ADGM, and more than a dozen additional zones. According to recent UAE statistics, foreign nationals make up close to 88 percent of the country’s population in 2026, so most people that needs for a legal help in the UAE are newcomers who do not know which court has jurisdiction, which lawyer to trust, or what a fair fee looks like.
Legaline platform describes itself as an ecosystem rather than a single product. It combines three layers into a single operating system for legal work in the UAE. Firstly, an AI layer provides citation-grounded legal research and document drafting, built on a lawyer-validated corpus of primary UAE law.
Secondly, a marketplace layer that matches structured legal tasks with verified, UAE-licensed lawyers. Third, a trust layer, called Safe Deal, that holds client funds through Stripe and releases them only after both parties sign a closing act, so clients pay only for delivered work and lawyers can start knowing funds are already reserved.
Identity verification solution
That structure only works if every client on the platform is who they say they are. Lawyers commit real professional time to each engagement, and they will only do so consistently if every request comes from a verified, real person identity.
This is where iDenfy came in to help with its identity verification solution that can verify identity documents from every country through a single flow, supporting over 16,000+ document types across more than 200+ countries and territories. Legaline draws people from virtually every country in the world who present passports, national identity cards, and residence documents from a wide range of issuing states.
Information security management
“Legaline is solving a genuinely hard problem, connecting clients and lawyers across one of the most complex legal markets in the world. Our role is straightforward. Every client on their platform needs to be verified quickly and accurately, no matter which country issued their documents, so that trust can be established from the first interaction,” said Domantas Ciulde, the CEO of iDenfy.
Security carries particular weight in the decision. Identity documents are among the most sensitive data a person can share. iDenfy holds ISO 27001 certification for information security management, maintains full GDPR compliance, and undergoes regular audits of its data-processing practices to provide Legaline a way to answer client questions about documents safely.
Distinguishing genuine submissions
Behind the automation, iDenfy’s internal team of specialists works 24/7 to review flagged registrations by distinguishing genuine submissions affected by poor lighting or framing from those that show real signs of fraud. That human layer, combined with automated checks, keeps the onboarding process fast and smooth to verify an unlimited number of users and save costs, as iDenfy only charges per successful verification, rather than for every authentication flow. Before choosing the ideal identity verification provider, Legaline evaluated several companies and cited fast integration in hours rather than days as a deciding factor to go with iDenfy.
“Bringing iDenfy in as our identity verification partner was not a hard decision. Legal work runs on trust, and in the UAE, where most of our clients are newcomers, that trust has to be built into the platform itself rather than earned slowly through referrals. iDenfy lets us verify clients from any country in the world through a single flow, which means our lawyers can take on a new client with confidence from the very first message,” said Dmitry Grinik, the Founder of the Legaline platform.
Major international sanctions
Beyond identity verification, Legaline also uses iDenfy’s AML screening to support compliance around its Safe Deal system, checking clients against major international sanctions and watch lists as part of the due diligence required whenever real money moves through the platform. In addition, lawyers on Legaline are also verified separately; the platform’s own onboarding process is built around UAE legal licensing and Stripe’s KYB onboarding, so every engagement on the platform runs between a KYC-verified client and a licensed, KYB-verified lawyer.
That combination has already resolved three practical problems for Legaline. It closed the client side to verify their identities and replaced a patchwork of manual checks with one flow. It also reinforced the integrity of the marketplace itself, since lawyers now know their time will not be wasted on anonymous or fraudulent requests, which is what makes credible professionals willing to work through a digital platform at all. And it gave Legaline a level of compliance readiness that meets payment-partner and regulatory expectations from the start.
