Helping you shape tomorrow's world

We have assisted JDA on a wide variety of software licensing, tech transaction and dispute matters through a virtual secondment team. The arrangement has acted as a highly valuable addition to JDA’s legal team, allowing it to progress and complete numerous deals within challenging timeframes. Support has been provided by a core team in the UK, Poland and Germany, who are familiar with the issues that commonly arise in software deals including licensing, SaaS, cloud and hosting.

Providing full-scale legal advice related to the spin-off of the Enterprise Services division of HP ahead of a merger with Computer Science Corporation, to form DXC Technology — now the world’s leading independent end-to-end IT services and solutions company.

Advising Hootsuite Inc, the most widely used social media management platform and one of the few Canadian “Unicorns”, on the acquisition of AdEspresso, a SaaS solution for Facebook and Instagram advertising. With this acquisition, Hootsuite now sits at the nexus of more than $500 million in annualised social spend, providing organisations with the ability to effectively engage with customers across paid, earned, and owned social media.

We assisted a US based multinational move to the Cloud in 20 EMEA countries. Our client decided to procure and implement a global cloud computing solution, including moving their email and HR systems to cloud based solutions. They sought a practical solution to the regulatory issues raised on both the telecommunications and sensitive data aspects of the offering. Working closely with our client, we helped them to evaluate their options and identify appropriate solutions across 20 EMEA jurisdictions.

Advising ARM Limited on the acquisition of Simulity Labs Limited, an ‘Internet of Things’ company providing innovative eSIM software. Simulity is a creator of embedded operating system software and related server systems for embedded SIMs.

We advise Qlik on a wide variety of issues throughout Europe and Asia. Qlik, a Swedish founded US based business intelligence & visualisation software company was acquired by Venture Capital outfit Thomo Brava. Following the takeover we advised Qlik on an employee rationalisation programme in a range of its European and Asian locations. This is intended to put Qlik on track for greater profitability. We also advised Qlik on a variety of commercial issues in Europe (inc Russia) and completed a large scale project to assist in the set-up of binding corporate rules for data protection across the international entities within the Qlik group.