RadcliffesLeBrasseur advises all categories of IT providers, including software designers, hardware manufacturers and suppliers, IT and internet service providers. We also act for IT users, including companies, NHS and private health bodies, educational institutions and charities.
Our Information Technology team can provide advice on all aspects of IT law including:
- website development contracts
- e-commerce
- IT joint ventures
- facilities management and outsourcing arrangements
- software licensing, including shrink-wrap licensing and sub-licensing
- software development, including bespoke systems
- hardware and software procurement
- service level agreements
- escrow agreements
- intellectual property
- data protection and IT
- telecommunications
- IT litigation and dispute resolution
Our relevant experience includes:
- negotiating a £35m agreement for the outsourcing of IT services
- drafting and negotiating software licences, including boxed product agreements, shrink-wrap licences, volume agreements and licences for digital content
- negotiating a distribution agreement relating to the sale of computer software products in the banking sector
- preparing standard licence agreements relating to the supply of computer software
- advising on a wide range of licensing agreements in relation to copyright, particularly in connection with the licensing and distribution of computer software
- advising on the setting up of an international distribution network relating to computer software
- acting for an IT supplier in relation to the supply of a specialist system to companies which were merging, including the licensing of copyright and other intellectual property rights relating to the specialist system
- acting for an IT computer services company in relation to the outsourcing of a transport related information facility
- advising the supplier in connection with the outsourcing of part of the IT activity of a major industrial materials producer
- advising the supplier in relation to the outsourcing of the central IT services of a leisure and entertainment group
- acting for the supplier in relation to the outsourcing of the IT activities of a local authority
- acting for the supplier in relation to the outsourcing of the IT function of a publicly- listed media, hotel and catering group
- forming a joint venture for an IT consultancy, including drafting a 50:50 shareholders’ agreement, articles of association, consultancy agreements and assignments of intellectual property
- acting for a software company in relation to an $11m investment by a venture capital house
- advising a software company in relation to a £5m investment by 3i, including negotiating the shareholders’ agreement and articles of association
- dealing with the £3m investment by a US venture capital house in a joint venture with a UK software designer, including negotiating the investment agreement and articles of association, preference share rights and dividends, minority protections, exit options and US registration and piggy-back rights
- acting for a medical database company in relation to the £1.5m investment by an off-shore venture capital house
- advising on a £10m fundraising by a WAP content provider
- acting for a telecoms sales agent, including advising on the agency agreement with a major telecoms carrier
- advising a telecoms company on a joint venture involving the installation of telephone facilities in aeroplanes
- advising on an agreement for the grant of intellectual property and development rights in relation to innovative mobile telephone services
- acting for a Canadian purchaser in its acquisition of the UK’s largest supplier of master control switching and channel branding equipment for TV broadcasts
- acting for the lessor on long-term satellite transponder leases.