Vertex Law

Irfan Baluch worked as a software developer prior to qualifying as a lawyer and Pete Kenyon has been in-house counsel for a software house. This experience gives both of them unique insights into what the key issues are for developers and customers alike. It makes them highly effective lawyers for your needs.

Getting Vertex Law's technology lawyers involved at an early stage in any software 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 
• Data transfer/migration
• Escrow agreements
• Joint authorship
• Licensing disputes
• Network sharing arrangements
• Outsourcing arrangements/systems procurement
• Application Service Provider arrangements/Software-As-A-Service
• 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