CW Understands Technology

CW assist companies that develop, own, use, or outsource technology and intellectual property with the significant challenges that can arise during a deal, offering pragmatic and creative solutions, tailored to their specific business, with the goal to continue to achieve business goals to develop, protect, share, and monetize technology and intellectual property assets.

We Can Help Scale, Transform, and Grow Your Business

Increasingly, businesses are electing to implement an on-demand technology model. CW assist clients negotiate a cloud computing (including application services, infrastructure/platform/software-as-a-service, or utility computing) contract that meets their requirements and manages risk, whether the cloud solution is private, public, or hybrid. CW will closely partner with our client’s business, to efficiently negotiate and deliver practical solutions to complex transactions. Specifically, we can assist in determining whether and how to best implement cloud-based IT strategies, considering and weighing up applicable commercial, operational, legal, technical, and regulatory considerations.

CW has significant experience negotiating in the cloud market, with all major providers, to help clients secure an industry-leading contract. We will always tailor the firm’s support to clients’ needs and budget. We strive to remove and navigate the barriers to adoption across our client’s markets, to ensure compliance with data privacy, cybersecurity, industry-specific regulations, and data sovereignty.

CW can assist clients adopt and implement the correct digital strategy for their business so as to stay current and consist with rapidly changing and new technologies and new business models which are revolutionizing existing ways of doing business.

CW work with startups, new entrants, and market leaders – across all industry sectors – to manage and respond to the challenges presented by new emerging technologies and new business models. CW assist clients with their holistic digital strategy, which may include considerations on regulatory, data privacy, and cybersecurity issues, as well as engaging and negotiating agreements with consultants, technology providers, and strategic partners. CW assist clients to acquire or license new technologies, collaborate with emerging technology providers, and negotiate strategic alliances or joint ventures with other organizations in the same or different market sectors to innovate service offerings and automate operational functions. We will guide you through every step of implementing a digital strategy, from strategy development, to going-to-market, contract signature, ongoing contract management and, if necessary, dispute resolution. CW assist clients to structure an outcome that is robust, flexible, and easy to manage throughout the life of the deal.

As always, CW respects the bottom line and therefore we offer a tailored approach in order to align with clients’ needs and budget.

CW understands that strategic sourcing and implementing, together with managing maintenance and upgrades to enterprise systems, is a necessary and ongoing exercise. Our rich experience in this area makes us very equipped to handle vague and poorly drafted vendor agreements in a swift and cost-effective fashion, appropriately addressing the risk that is routinely allocated to the customer and also provide vague transparency and control over the payable costs. CW has the expertise and experience to ensure that clients’ vendor agreements minimize risk and provide the tools, mechanisms, and protection needed to implement, maintain, and upgrade enterprise systems. CW will support you – with robust, flexible, and easy to manage strategy – through every step of the transaction, from strategy development, to going-to-market, contract signature, ongoing contract management and, if necessary, dispute resolution.

CW prides itself on aligning with the client’s business, and function as an extension of the client’s in-house legal team to deliver practical solutions to complex transactions, efficiently.

We have experience of strategizing, pursuing and defending IP disputes. We shall pursue and defend cases aggressively and effectively but are able to resolve a high percentage of disputes by negotiated settlements.

Outsourcing can provide companies with significant benefits in terms of lower costs and enhance performance at lower costs. However, if executed poorly, outsourcing can cost companies dearly, in higher costs, poor service, poor morale, as well as immeasurable damage to an organization’s reputation and goodwill. CW has notable experience with advising outsourcing companies. We understand the philosophy that underpins outsourcing and the complex pricing, service level, and governance mechanisms that have developed around outsourcing.

We know that the significant commitment and substantial investment of time, people, and resources necessary in connection with outsourcing, so as to obtain better performance at lower cost for the organization. We will leverage that broad experience to work closely and efficiently with clients to help ease that burden and to achieve success by offering pragmatic advice and solutions, providing market-oriented, commercially focused legal advice, aligned with our clients’ strategy and goals.

CW will advise and support clients through every step of the outsourcing process from strategy development, to going-to-market, contract signature, ongoing contract management and, if necessary, dispute resolution.

CW prides itself on aligning with the client’s business, and function as an extension of the client’s in-house legal team to deliver practical solutions to complex transactions, efficiently.

CW boasts significant experience in drafting, negotiating, and providing assistance in implementing, significant telecommunication transactions.

We have worked in-house in telecom companies, data companies, ISP companies, and IT Consulting companies, negotiating both buy-side and sell-side, in both the retail and wholesale channels, with local small companies, municipalities to the state to federal government departments, right through to most Fortune 500 companies.

CW understands that certain telecommunications transactions come with a significant regulatory burden. We can help clients negotiate, execute, and implement agreements that leverage the client’s existing or third-party telecommunications infrastructure and services to save money, improve performance, and develop new revenue streams.

Whether advising an emerging company looking to launch a new application, a major corporate or government entity looking to outsource its telecommunication services, or a telecommunication service provider looking to develop new products, markets, and services, CW will tailor its support to clients’ needs and budget while ensuring clients always have the benefit of CW’s market experience and industry best practice. CW’s lawyers align themselves with the client’s business, and function as an extension of the client’s in-house legal team to deliver practical solutions to complex transactions, efficiently.