Vertex Law

The team is recognised for its Information Technology work in Chambers and Partners, as are its lawyers, who clients describe as “reliable and pragmatic” and who are praised for their experience in the technology sector.

Getting Vertex Law's technology lawyers involved at an early stage in any technology development programme will give you an advantage when you wish to structure the deal from a commercial and legal perspective, and it can save you a lot of time and money by ensuring that you have certainty and clarity going forwards.

Our technology lawyers are engaged in the following kinds of work:

• Assignment of copyright in software
• Literal and non-literal copyright infringement of software
• Cloud computing contracts
• Application Service Provider arrangements and SaaS agreements
• Data transfer/migration
• Escrow agreements
• Joint authorship
• Licensing disputes
• Network sharing arrangements
• Outsourcing arrangements/systems procurement
• Paperless office – legal admissibility of scanned documents
• Reverse engineering and decompliation/interoperability issues
• Software/system implementation/integration agreements
• Software development agreements
• Software licensing (different licensing models) agreements
• Software maintenance agreements
• Software specifications
• Standard function libraries
• Systems procurement/disputes
• Transitional arrangements
• Disaster recovery agreements