Get help with IT law or intellectual property

Our cross-sector expert team has a deservedly solid reputation for providing high value, solution-focussed and commercial advice on complex IT and IP matters to high profile clients within the public and private sectors.

We make it our job to understand IT and IP, so we can work with you to enable your business to access IT resources and use and commercialise intellectual property. We are always clear about our role and deliver your needs in a pragmatic and efficient way.

IT

We are well known for advising fast-growing and established tech companies upon commercialisation of technology and funding, working on high value and important technology projects, and advising large private sector entities and public bodies upon transformational IT projects and disputes.

Some recent examples of work:

• Advising a University upon a transformational core systems project
• Advising upon the best routes to procure IT
• Drafting a software development agreement with a major online retailer
• Advising an NHS Trust upon a software backed multi-Trust bank system for junior doctors
• Advising a global real estate tech company upon a dispute with a software development company
• Advising a tech company on funding for an electronic COVID test and a number of cross border licencing agreements
• The sale of a cloud-based video collaboration software business
• Advising an aviation tech company upon a multi-million pound investment
• Successfully negotiating and terminating a high value IT agreement for a local authority due to a number of material defaults

Intellectual property

Intellectual property (IP) is often a valuable asset and its unique need for legal protection requires expertise.

Our IP expertise covers both non-contentious (such as assignments and licences) and contentious (IP disputes). We regularly advise clients upon IP matters whether as part of a larger project or transaction or as a stand-alone arrangement. We provide expert IP advice both in the private sector and the public sector. Our IP work is often high profile and recent examples include:

• Licence of music and image rights from Robbie Williams to the LMA
• Licence of rights of a well-known TV presenter to a home furnishings company
• International IP dispute between two retailers of fried chicken
  Licence of rights of sports celebrities to a pharmaceutical company to raise awareness of a disease
• Licence of genomics software from one NHS trust to another
• Collaboration and development agreement between a University and a police force
• Licence and assignment of various IP rights for a University in relation to theatre production.