Innovative advice for the tech sector
Technology is everywhere. Evolving all the time. In an ever interconnected world, our technology team are here to respond to legal challenges presented by the pace of change.
In a sector where progress outpaces the law, we bring solutions for now and into the future.
You press forward with your ideas, grow them into a bigger and more sustainable business, and we’ll take care of the legal side.
Commercial decisions go hand in hand with legal issues. There are legal risks to mitigate. There are agreements with others to be drafted. There’s funding to secure. Our tech specialists advise you on how best to protect your business.
As a UK Top 100 firm specialising in the tech sector, we also regularly support investors into tech-heavy businesses, helping them to analyse and mitigate the legal risks which can accompany new solutions, from AI to data and beyond.
However, before we start, we get to know you. We work with you, not simply for you. Every step of the way, we are on your team, available to give you expert, solution-lead advice, when you need it.
Our tech sector expertise
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Apps and software
Developing a mobile app or a complicated platform is a creative challenge. It doesn’t need to be a legal one as well. Let our team advise you on the agreements with third party developers through to the end user terms needed for the use of your software.
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Data protection and privacy
Your data is your asset. It’s getting more valuable by the day. And the legal landscape around it is getting more complicated. We’ll navigate the legals, and hold your hand when you suffer a data breach.
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Funding
All businesses need funding. High growth tech businesses often need more than most, to get that great idea off the ground or support its development in the market.
Whether you are a company seeking growth capital, or an investor looking to support the best in UK tech, from the early stages (“ASAs”, “SAFE notes” and initial seed rounds) through to later stage funding (Series A to C investment rounds and beyond) – our specialist team will be in your corner through it all.
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Exit
Whether its time to step aside and realise the value you have worked so hard for over the past years, or it’s the next step in the journey and you are joining the business into a larger enterprise, our tech M&A specialists have been on hand to guide founder teams and investors safely through the process.
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Intellectual property
Patents to license. Brands to protect. Know-how to exploit. Our team will advise you on how best to protect your ideas, and draft the commercial agreements to realise their full potential.
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Protecting confidential information
Trade secrets and other confidential information are often your key assets; the ones that let you stay ahead of the pack. Our tech team – made up of commercial, dispute and employment lawyers – will know how to protect your secrets.
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Due diligence
Investing in technology, taking on investment, or thinking of acquiring a business at the forefront of technology? Our expert teams can help to break down the legal risks and advise on how transactions may need to adapt around these.
Our sector expertise
Data Breaches - When, Not If
We come into contact with clients’ cyber and data protection issues every day and understand the profound effect they have on businesses, reputations and livelihoods.
For an SME, it is all too easy to dismiss cyber incidents and data breaches. Too often, these are seen as issues that only affect much larger entities or organisations that hold certain types of special category data. “It’s not going to affect us” is a very dangerous mindset. In this day and age, a data breach is a question of when, not if.
Read our report to find out how businesses can reduce the risk.
