Fides is a Munich-founded governance platform for in-house legal, corporate secretariat, and legal ops teams managing multi-entity groups. The strongest public evidence points to three jobs: maintain a current entity register, run board and resolution workflows, and track governance duties, deadlines, and approvals with an audit trail. Public signal is stronger on enterprise positioning than on community usage. LegalOn said on October 21, 2025 that Fides supports multinational corporations with legal entity and board management and that the product would remain available as a standalone product after acquisition. LegalTech Hub places it in entity management, and G2 search snippets emphasize ease of use and corporate-governance utility. Security posture is better documented than pricing: Fides publicly states ISO 27001:2022 and SOC 2 Type II, Frankfurt hosting, TLS 1.3, SSO, and MFA. Pricing remains quote-led. Independent practitioner chatter is thin, so the workflow specificity below leans heavily on vendor case studies and third-party directory coverage rather than Reddit.
Company Info
- Founded: 2021
- Team size: 11-50 employees
- Funding: $5.3M
- HQ: Germany
- Sector: Governance/Compliance/Risk Management
What We Haven’t Verified
This page was assembled from publicly available information. Feature claims and workflow mappings are based on what the vendor and third-party listings publish — not hands-on testing or practitioner feedback.
Workflows
Based on practitioner evidence, Fides is used in these workflows:
What practitioners struggle with
Real frustrations from legal professionals — the problems Fides addresses (or should address). Sourced from practitioner reviews, Reddit threads, and case studies.
Corporate paralegal manages 200+ subsidiaries across 30 jurisdictions in a spreadsheet — annual compliance requires manually tracking filing deadlines, director changes, registered agent renewals, and good standing certificates across every entity, and a missed filing in one jurisdiction creates cascading problems
PE fund acquires portfolio company and needs clean org charts, entity registers, and compliance status for exit due diligence — but entity data is scattered across spreadsheets, minute books, and outside counsel files, director lists are stale, and filing compliance status across 15 jurisdictions is uncertain, slowing the deal by weeks
Corporate secretary or GC prepares board materials by copying slides into a 60-page PDF board book, manually taking minutes during the meeting, then chasing directors for votes and signature approvals via email after — the entire governance cycle from prep to minutes approval takes 2-3 weeks, and when regulators or auditors ask for governance documentation it's scattered across email, SharePoint, and filing cabinets
Where it fits in your workflow
Before Fides
A legal department inherits a growing entity structure, recurring governance obligations, or a board cycle that has outgrown email, folders, and spreadsheets.
After Fides
Once entity data, approvals, and board actions are captured in Fides, teams can assemble audit or due-diligence packages faster, keep filing obligations current, and hand cleaner records to outside counsel, auditors, and transaction teams.
Integrations & hand-offs
Fides sits before external filings, board execution, and due-diligence requests. The public evidence suggests handoffs to auditors, external counsel, directors, and transaction teams rather than to a legal DMS or matter-management stack.
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