Information Technology & Outsourcing
The speed of change in the technology sector in recent years has been extraordinary. Whether you use, develop, or provide technology, it is more important than ever to obtain commercial legal advice.
Our Services
With proven expertise in IT and with a team of leading IP/IT practitioners, we offer clients guidance on all aspects of IT contracts including:
- IT procurement
- Outsourcing
- Managed service arrangements
- Hardware purchases and sale
- Software development
- Software licensing
- Software and hardware support and maintenance
- Cloud computing (including software as a service)
- Software distribution/reseller arrangements
- Escrow agreements
- Domain name issues including disputes
- Encryption and cryptography issues
- Intellectual property issues of IT
- Website contracts including terms and conditions, privacy policies, cookie policies
We have also acted for a number of organisations, both multinational and UK-based, in the areas of internet and intranet usage which have each had issues around unauthorised access to their systems and security incidents. We have excellent connections with leading IT forensic businesses who can assist us in dealing with such matters as required.
Clients
The businesses and organisations we work with include:
- Scottish Government
- Kames Capital plc
- JPI Media
- Aperta Limited
- Dacoll Group
- Vascutek Limited
- IIZUKA Limited
- Scottish Opera
- W H Malcolm Limited
- Johnstons of Elgin
- Scottish Salmon Company
- Equator (Scotland) Limited
