9fin

Updated 2026-02-10

AI-native debt capital markets intelligence platform covering leveraged finance, private credit, and distressed debt. Core capabilities: real-time credit market news and analysis, capital structure data, documentation libraries (bond/loan legal summaries called ‘QuickTakes’), offering memorandum analysis, restructuring intelligence, and AI-powered research across all debt market data. Dedicated law firm product: ‘Restructuring Data & Intelligence for Law Firms’ with capital structure visibility and distressed market analysis. Founded 2016 by Steven Hunter (ex-banker) and co-founder (university roommate). $50M Series B (Dec 2024, Highland Europe) on top of $23M Series A+ (Spark Capital). SOC 2 Type I & II certified. Hires Bankruptcy Legal Analysts ($207K/year). Customer story: high yield lawyer testimonial. Competitors: Debtwire (Acuris/ION), LCD/Leveraged Commentary & Data, Reorg Research, Bloomberg. Artificial Lawyer covered 9fin as ‘Fintech + Legal Tech Platform.’ STRONG LEGAL RELEVANCE: restructuring and bankruptcy attorneys, leveraged finance lawyers, and credit teams at law firms are core users.

Company Info

Sector: Legal Tech

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What practitioners struggle with

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Associate reviews a 60-page credit agreement against the firm's playbook — manually checking each clause against preferred positions takes 6-10 hours, and fatigue-induced errors in the final sections are almost guaranteed

Document Review & Management 20 vendors affected Large firm (51–200) · Mid-size firm (11–50) · In-house counsel · Legal ops

After closing 200 deals over 10 years, the corporate practice group has no structured record of deal terms, market positions, or client preferences — every RFP response and pitch requires partners to reconstruct deal history from memory or dig through disorganised file shares

Firm Operations & Growth 5 vendors affected BigLaw (200+) · large-firm · Large firm (51–200)

Bankruptcy attorney handling a Chapter 11 reorganization needs to understand the current state of a disputed issue — say, whether a debtor can assume an executory contract after plan confirmation — but searching Westlaw returns 400+ cases across 50 jurisdictions with conflicting holdings, and the attorney has to spend 8 hours reading and synthesizing before they can advise the client on the likely outcome in their circuit

Research & Analysis 3 vendors affected Solo practitioner · Small firm (2–10) · Mid-size firm (11–50) · Large firm (51–200)

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