Software Development

Whether you are in the business of developing bespoke software solutions or are looking to implement a new software solution within your business, let our expert IT Solicitors guide you through your contractual requirements.

We are able to advise you on the following areas:

• Software Development Agreements (including Joint Ventures and collaborations);
• Acceptance Testing;
• Third Party Software;
• Support and Maintenance Agreements;
• Escrow;
• IP ownership;
• Contractors

Our ethos is to provide our clients with an alternative to the major regional and national firms by offering high quality legal advice from highly experienced, specialist solicitors, but on a much more cost-effective basis.

We work closely with our clients to ensure that we meet their expectations both in terms of their objectives for a particular piece of work and in relation to costs. We are easy to deal with, clear in our advice and understand that a common sense approach is often required. As standard practice, we give our clients an estimate of the costs involved in undertaking any piece of work at the outset. We can then provide costs updates on a regular basis. In addition, where appropriate, we are happy to discuss other pricing models (for example, fixed fees and retainer arrangements) if that is helpful to you.

For those clients who already have their own documents, we can review your current suite of contracts and advise how they can be improved to best protect your business’ interests. We are also able to act as your outsourced legal team providing advice and when you need it and becoming involved in your projects as they evolve, including contract negotiations.

There is no getting away from the fact that IT plays an important role in most businesses, whether that be a company’s website, its content management systems or accounts systems.  Whatever your IT requirements are, our specialist IT Solicitors can offer clear commercial and practical advice and assistance.

As our IT experts work closely with our Corporate team, we can assist with any capital and finance requirements you may face in order to raise appropriate funding for IT projects.

Our team of Commercial Solicitors are ranked Top Tier - Tier 1 by the independent Legal 500 directory.  In addition, Partners in our team are recommended by the Legal 500. Therefore, you can be reassured that you will deal with some of the best Commercial Solicitors in the country.

Recent examples of our work in this area include drafting and negotiating:

• a collaboration agreement for the development of platform software to be integrated with websites and portals, advising on escrow requirements and IP ownership;
• a migration and software licence agreements to cover the migration from terminal software licences to a software as a service licensing structure (SaaS), together with support services
• a framework agreement for provision of software and services in relation to solicitors’ accounts and time recording;
• a subscription agreement for downloadable software which integrates with third party software for the provision of records and reports into bandwidth usage;
• software agreements for the provision of a hosted environment capable of flexing up to meet demands on the service at any time.