Technology
Our multi-disciplinary team is a key player in the technology sector, with many clients and key companies being based within the Thames Valley.
We advise on a diverse range of companies covering from information technology, software and telecommunications to cyber security, medtech, fintech, e-commerce, green tech, media and life sciences. Additionally, we work with more traditional sectors like manufacturing, engineering and logistics which are increasingly leveraging technological and innovative advances.
Given its dynamic and fast-moving nature, we maintain the very latest knowledge of the sector and the legislation that regulates and controls it.
Our teams specialise in advising across the full life cycle of a company including formation, protection and enforcement of intellectual property rights, commercial litigation, and corporate transactions. We also act for customers procuring technology, suppliers providing technology solutions and investors active in the sector.
We have extensive experience advising establishing, acquiring and funding corporate ventures and are well placed to advise tech start-ups, spin outs and high-growth businesses on their expansion in the UK and internationally.
Our team of specialist lawyers has considerable expertise in the following:
- commercial contracts
- commercial ventures/partnering
- confidentiality agreements/NDAs
- supply, distribution and agency agreements
- investments for private equity houses/VCs including management buy-outs
- commercial exploitation of products
- corporate mergers and acquisition
- intellectual property, licensing and enforcement (including patents, trade marks, copyright or design rights)
- technology transfer requirements for spin-outs and investors
- data protection (including UK GDPR audits, privacy policies, DPIAs and other assessments, and international data transfers)
- information security
- employment issues, HR and pensions
- licencing of standard essential patents and negotiating FRAND licences
- immigration solutions including applications and sponsor licensing
- outsourcing disputes and due diligence
- assistance with trademark and patent searches
- trademark applications and assignments
- digital and e-commerce terms and conditions
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