Business & Technology Law
Four legal disciplines, and the technology sectors where each of them behaves differently from the textbook.
Legal Disciplines
What makes each one difficult at a technology company.
Commercial & Tech Transactions
- SaaS & Enterprise Licensing
- Channel, Reseller & Distribution
- Supply & Manufacturing Contracts
- Project & Infrastructure Agreements
- Strategic Partnerships & SLAs
- API & Data Supply Contracts
Contracts that close deals without giving away your position.
Enterprise SaaS agreements, licensing frameworks, strategic partnerships, API and data supply contracts. The commercial paper your revenue depends on, structured so that protecting your position and keeping the sales cycle moving are not competing objectives.
Data Privacy & Security
- Cross-Border Data Transfers
- Data Processing Agreements (DPAs)
- Privacy Impact Assessments
- Regulatory Audit Preparedness
Compliance built into the product, not bolted on after.
India's DPDP Act, the EU AI Act, and the cross-border mandates still taking shape. Privacy and security frameworks built directly into the product roadmap: data processing agreements, transfer mechanisms, impact assessments. A buyer's security review is a poor time to discover the architecture needs changing.
Intellectual Property
- IP Assignment & Chain of Title
- Open-Source Compliance Audits
- Confidentiality & NDA Frameworks
- Trademark Portfolio Strategy
- Brand & Domain Monitoring
- UDRP & Domain Disputes
Clean title, clear ownership, defensible portfolio.
Chain of title on code, designs and hardware. Open-source compliance across the stack. Confidentiality frameworks that hold through contract and policy, and trademark portfolio strategy across the jurisdictions that matter. We monitor for infringement and take domain disputes ourselves; where enforcement runs wider than that, we instruct and coordinate specialists. IP that works as an asset: in fundraising, in licensing, and in enforcement if it comes to that.
Corporate & Investments
- Venture Financing (Seed to Series C)
- Joint Ventures & Project Investment
- Cap Table Engineering
- Board Governance & Compliance
- M&A and Strategic Exits
Structure that survives diligence.
Formation, cap table architecture, board governance, investor rights. Corporate structures that anticipate the round after the one you are raising, so that when venture diligence arrives, the house is already in order.
Sector Specialisation
The same four disciplines, behaving differently.
SaaS & Cloud Infrastructure
Recurring revenue, specific legal problems.
Multi-tenant data isolation, tiered licensing, enterprise SLAs, usage-based pricing. The commercial and regulatory questions specific to SaaS don't map onto traditional software law, and the answers change as the product scales.
Artificial Intelligence & ML
The rules are forming. Build accordingly.
Training data licensing, model deployment liability, output ownership, governance frameworks. The EU AI Act is in force. The DPDP Act applies to how you use data. Enterprise buyers are writing their own procurement requirements. Building here means legal is part of the product conversation, not downstream of it.
Fintech & Financial Services
The perimeter is the whole question.
Investment adviser structuring, and opinion work on the limits of what an adviser may properly do. Contracting into banks and financial institutions, and white-label arrangements for providers serving the industry.
Developer Tools & APIs
Your users read the terms. Write them accordingly.
Developer terms of service, rate limiting, telemetry and usage data rules, SDK distribution licensing. A technical audience treats your terms as part of the product, and reads them more closely than most customers ever will.
Renewable Energy & Infrastructure Projects
Long-dated contracts, moving regulation.
Project documentation that runs for decades, offtake with regulated counterparties, and consents that gate construction. Joint ventures and investment structuring where the paperwork has to outlast the equipment.
Robotics & Connected Hardware
Hardware moves through other people's hands.
Channel and reseller agreements where risk has to pass back to back to the end customer. Component supply, firmware licensing, and IP that spans code and physical design. Liability that survives the sale and follows the unit into the field.
Also Active In
Digital assets.
A live area of practice, with less depth behind it than the six above. Where a specialist would serve you better than we would, we will say so.
How This Reaches You
Three ways to engage: Product Counsel alongside your product and engineering cycles, Commercial Counsel for how the business is built and regulated, or Project Counsel for a milestone with a start and a finish.
How we work