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Contacts: Email the team  
Adosh Chatrath   T: +44(0)20 7220 5955
Aoife O’Sullivan   T: +44(0)20 7220 5966  
Matthew Mace     T: +44(0)20 7220 5963

IT
We offer advice on a variety of information technology issues including company and corporate finance, intellectual property and commercial agreements. We currently extend in-house legal services to a number of software solution providers. Our lawyers' combined years of experience in the IT market enable us to offer innovative and cost-effective legal support in the following areas:

  • Software development, distribution and licensing agreements and reseller agreements.
  • Novation agreements.
  • Hosting agreements.
  • The procurement of IT systems and services.
  • Outsourcing projects and managed services.
  • Data protection.
  • Project finance and funding arrangements.
  • Joint ventures and other strategic alliances.
  • E-commerce and internet-based businesses.
  • Intellectual property management.
  • Directors' and key staff packages, as well as general employment and consultancy agreements, advice concerning staff transfer and protection of employment regulations.
  • Regulatory compliance.
  • Competition issues.
  • Anti-trust issues.
  • Contract management.
  • Secondment services.
  • Joint ventures, financings, mergers and acquisitions in the IT sector.
  • Multimedia, on-line and e-commerce transaction and advisory work.
  • Complex technology disputes in the IT sector.
  • Non-disclosure agreements.

IP
Our team is highly regarded for its commercially driven advice in intellectual property law. We have advised various businesses including aviation, IT, media and entertainment and bio-technology. Our work is often (but not always) coupled with large corporate transactions and includes:

  • Research and development.
  • Protection and registration of trademarks, registered designs, patents and other "registerable" rights throughout the world.
  • Exploitation.
  • Acquisition/sale of rights.
  • Licensing of rights.
  • Enforcement of rights (passing off/injunctive relief and otherwise).

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