Technology & digital commerce

Overview

Ensuring an organisation is prepared for rapid technological change requires the discipline to look at both sides of the change - the commercial opportunities and the risks. Our technology and digital commerce team takes a balanced view when assessing change, understanding the pros and cons of both paths.

Our legal expertise, industry knowledge and commercial acumen supports clients to make measured decisions and implement them with confidence.

An organisation’s ability to gain pre-emptive advantage in an age of such fast technological change is key for enabling competitive advantage. Not all businesses want to lead change from the front when risks can outweigh reward. Our technology team works with companies on both sides of this spectrum. 

We work with clients on a diverse range of technology and digital commerce transactions and projects. When required, we engage our experts from our Corporate & Commercial, Intellectual Property, Insurance and Disputes & Investigations team's to ensure a comprehensive approach is applied to finding the best solution as efficiently as possible.

Our technology procurement and outsourcing project team expertise includes procurement and outsourcing of key business and technology operations; advising on strategy, structuring tender drafting, vendor due diligence, risk analysis, competitive vendor selection processes, negotiations and post-contract support.  

Projects range from systems integration, cloud services, outsourcing, managed services, consulting services, software, support services, telecommunications infrastructure and services, AI and machine learning, quantum computing, augmented reality and IoT.

Our technology transactional expertise spans advising on technology transfers, strategic alliances, joint ventures, large-scale IT and network projects, technology and business process outsourcing (BPO), system implementations, major cloud and IoT deals, complex software licensing arrangements, and contracts for the implementation of services and solutions based on innovative and disruptive technologies.

Our team provides specialist technology and digital commerce advice on:

• Digital commerce - including digital business structuring, entity formation, website terms and conditions tailored for digital and e-businesses, consumer protection, digital marketing regulation, data protection and drafting privacy and cookie policies, user agreements, supplier contracts, terms and conditions and identifying and managing potential digital disputes, and
• Key regulatory considerations - advising on regulation impacting businesses that create and harness technology, including cyber and IT security, privacy and data protection and industry specific regulations.