Technology
Our Technology team regularly advises both developers and users of technology in both the private and public sectors. We act for a wide range of clients including small entrepreneurial start-ups as well as large international private and public companies and government.
Our team members are experienced IT legal professionals with specialized industry expertise. We can structure, draft, negotiate and implement numerous information technology agreements and provide related transactional advice on corporate law, intellectual property law and other related matters.
Our practice is fully integrated and works closely with the firm’s other areas of expertise in order to provide our clients with seamless access to specialized legal expertise across the spectrum of areas that are particularly relevant to technology clients.
We also support our clients with government procurement, employment and business immigration, insolvency and restructuring, export/import controls, tax, revenue recognition, transfer pricing, R&D expenditures, offshore transactions, litigation, arbitration and dispute resolution, electronic records management and cleantech.
We offer you expertise in
- information technology transactions including technology development, acquisition and procurement, enterprise software projects and systems integration, licensing, services and support arrangements, joint ventures and strategic alliances, distribution arrangements, commercial exploitation of intellectual property assets, privacy law and opensource software
- outsourcing transactions including IT infrastructure, application development and maintenance, managed services and business process outsourcing expertise. We assist customers and vendors throughout the entire outsourcing process
- e-commerce and Internet transactions including assisting clients to conduct business on the Internet such as online contracting, jurisdictional issues, privacy, website issues, compliance with e-commerce legislation, electronic signatures and online service delivery
- intellectual property including advice and guidance on preparation and prosecution of patent, trade-mark and industrial design applications, validity, infringement, freedom to operate and patentability opinions, litigation, audit, due diligence and portfolio management, and copyright and entertainment
- M&A, corporate finance and venture capital including domestic, cross-border and international transactions. We support our technology clients’ venture capital, banking and other corporate financing needs, including IPO and securities expertise, at every stage of corporate growth. Experience in all aspects of VC transactions, from seed investment in early stage ventures to late stage domestic and/or cross border investments in pre-IPO technology companies