Software
We advise major industrial, commercial and financial enterprises in the acquisition, integration, deployment and maintenance of critical software including ERP (enterprise resource planning), SCM (supply chain management) and internet technologies. We appreciate the fragility of software suppliers and regularly adopt solutions that include source code escrow. We are very cognizant of the problems of allowing the use of software that has unfavorable licensing terms, such as “open source” software or services that use embedded software of third party suppliers. On the sell-side, we have advised clients in software startups in developing, licensing, commercializing and selling their software.
Software transactional support may include:
- Application development and maintenance
- Licensing: proprietary, free, open source
- Digital rights management: user, entity, supply chain; audit and operations
- Source code management and escrow
- Business software alliance audits
- Policies on protecting original works
- Self assessment audits on compliance with licensing obligations, copyright and copyleft