Technology Contracts
Our commercial and IT teams offer a leading technology practice that is ideally placed to support the challenges facing businesses that both offer and implement technology and innovation solutions.
We can support you through the lifecycle of your trading arrangements from key issues reviews and risks analyses of contracts presented to you for signature, to drafting and negotiating bespoke agreements for your unique offering, ensuring that your contracts are robust, resilient and are an enabler of flexibility and agility in your business going forward.
Our range of commercial services includes:
- Commercial contracts: drafting contracts/conditions for sale and purchase of technology products and services, advice on frameworks for technology solutions, IT licensing, support and maintenance agreements, agency, distribution and reseller agreements, transitional services arrangements, software trial agreements, connectivity arrangements
- Collaborations and joint ventures: heads of terms and memorandums of agreement, collaborative technology projects, including R&D and commercial exploitation agreements, non-disclosure agreements
- Digital and e-commerce: on-line trading terms and conditions, click-wrap agreements, website development contracts and use terms, privacy policies, app and API development and use terms, open source software, cloud computing, trading with consumers and crowd funding arrangements
- Services agreements: master services agreements and call-off contracts, service provision contracts (including SaaS, PaaS and IaaS), subscription agreements, outsourcing arrangements, web hosting contracts, service level agreements
CASE STUDIES
- Drafting and negotiating cross-border joint venture arrangements for new technological developments for personal protective equipment in the healthcare sector
- Advising a specialist cyber-security firm on the roll out of its Software as a Service platform
- Advising on collaboration arrangements between further education organisations, technology PLCs and major corporates, local and central government, and specialist technology interest groups on the creation and management of a centre for technology
- Negotiating a contract for a private sector preferred supplier, for the supply of test services to a health services consortium with a multi-million pound contract value over ten years
- Advising on the legal terms for e-commerce marketplaces
- Preparing a collaboration agreement to establish a framework to govern the rights and obligations of the parties in relation to a collaboration to combine different technologies to innovative new solutions
- Preparation of a framework agreement for the outsourcing of IT support and software development functions for a panel of suppliers to be used by a major household name
- Advising on the roll out of a SaaS solution to major online retailers including advice on international expansion
- Advising a technology manufacturer on licensing arrangements for second-line manufacture by a customer, together with associated long-term supply and technical consultancy arrangements
- Advising a medical device manufacturer on a co-development collaboration, including licensing, royalty and “buy-out” options and downstream manufacturing and customer supply arrangements
- Advising a University on collaboration arrangements with online platforms for the delivery of e-learning, addressing course content development, participant enrolment and management, revenue arrangements and data flows