Lawyers who understand the legal needs of IT
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Lawyers with experience of in-house and private practice work, who understand and deliver your needs in a non-confrontational and proportionate manner, always with appropriate allocation of risk
Summary
Our practice is centred on transactional and advisory work. We advise on all types of agreements relating to IT and relates services from bread-and-butter software licensing through to cloud computing and complex outsourcing arrangements. We act, in roughly equal measure, for suppliers and users of IT in both the private and public sectors including regulated sectors.
We also advise on the legal issues surrounding the deployment and use of IT including: intellectual property, cyber security and data protection and on the impact of using emerging technologies such as AI and machine learning.
Our team includes experienced lawyers from the UK, Germany and the US with backgrounds in software engineering, in-house roles and private practice (including multi-disciplinary practices). This enables us to advise in context and to keep things practical and commercial. Furthermore, our people have a deep interest in tech, including emerging tech, which means that we understand the tech lingo and the application of law to it.
As such, we are well-placed to advise small businesses through to international businesses and large institutions.
The agreements on which we advise (in different permutations and combinations) include:
- on-premise software licensing
- on-premise software support
- professional services/consultancy
- software development
- source code arrangements
- hosting
- website development
- website hosting and support
- cloud-service (software-as-a-Service, platform-as-a-service, infrastructure-as-a-service)
- non-disclosure/confidentiality
- GDPR-compliant data processing and data export arrangements
- IT and BPO outsourcing arrangements
- managed services
- master service agreements
- framework agreements/statements of work
- systems integration
- systems procurement
- co-location arrangements
- hardware supply
- hardware support/extended warranty arrangements
- distribution and reseller arrangements (software and hardware)
- partnering agreements
- commercial joint ventures and team arrangements
Further information
In addition to drafting, reviewing and negotiating the contractual terms and conditions, we provide input into the operational elements of IT/service arrangement such as: pricing schedules, service descriptions, service levels and service credits, benchmarking, benefits sharing, business continuity and disaster recovery.
On the user/procurement side, our clients involve us at all stages from: undertaking strategic reviews of their IT systems; providing input into tendering processes (to set expectations on legal and contractual side of things) through to settling the contractual arrangements once a supplier/vendor has been selected. Likewise, on the supply side, our input ranges from defining the standard terms and conditions, qualifying tender opportunities through to negotiating the contractual arrangements once the supplier has been preferred/selected.
We also provide IT due diligence, whether in the context of vendor due diligence or in relation to mergers and acquisitions.