Understanding innovation & steeped in IT & anticipating change & cracking the code & advice you can trust & in it from the start & that's Online & Digital with Bird & Bird

Bird & Bird have consistently provided first-rate legal advice to renowned major Digital Tech & eCommerce players as they have grown and adapted to the global digital revolution.

We are a full service legal provider working with market leading digital businesses and innovative companies developing new technologies. We can assist you wherever you are in the world with strategic, operational, corporate and contentious aspects of your business.

Our breadth of experience covers a range of Digital Tech & eCommerce issues including:

  • development, publishing and distribution agreements
  • website development, hosting, terms and conditions, and policies
  • technology development and exploitation
  • rights clearance
  • content acquisition
  • licensing of technology and content
  • brand management and trade marks
  • privacy and data protection
  • advertising and promotional activities including copy clearance and drafting of rules for lotteries and competitions 
  • mobile, online and in-app payments
  • open source/open data
  • smart networks
  • trade secrets
  • wearable tech  

Our understanding of the market in which you operate means that we are able to speak your language, providing pragmatic, commercial advice to help you to achieve your strategic objectives.

Contacts

Roger Bickerstaff

Partner  |  UK

Roelien van Neck

Partner  |  Netherlands

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Recent highlights of work

  • We assist one of the world’s largest computer manufacturers with their day-to-day legal commercial work across Europe, the Middle East and Africa since 2005. We provide a seamless coordinated service that is highly valued by the EMEA GC and the in-house team. We provide a Client Relationship Executive who acts as a one-stop-shop point of contact for the legal team to access lawyers across our 25 offices and beyond.
  • Bird & Bird have provided continuing input on the legal and commercial implications and challenges of the UK Government moving to cloud computing, including the appropriate risk allocations, governance structures and approaches to accreditation. Our work on the G-Cloud initiative demonstrates our commitment to helping enable and shape the future IT marketplace for the public sector and beyond, and our ability to engage meaningfully at a strategic as well as a transactional level with extremely complex areas of IT and policy.
  • We act as the main European legal service provider for an Indian headquartered technology services corporation. Advising on numerous commercial matters and providing advice on contractual, corporate, intellectual property, employment, data protection and regulatory matters for this major client from various international offices.

Accolades

  • "In terms of eagerness, capability, quality and sensibility, Bird & Bird has been a wonderful firm." Roger Bickerstaff is "an industry heavyweight" who has "a great depth of knowledge as well as being pragmatic."

    Chambers UK 2016

  • "The lawyers are strong when it comes to the combination of IT projects and the law itself. They helped us to send the right signals to the market so that we could create the best possible circumstances for competition."

    Chambers Europe (Denmark) 2016

  • Acts on the full spectrum of matters in the IT sector, including cloud computing, cybersecurity and data protection. In the field of media advises on privacy, social media and freedom of speech.

    Chambers Europe (Netherlands) 2016

  • "We leverage the Bird & Bird international network and we're able to do it via our client partner, so we don't have to conduct a number of separate engagements or worry about our requirements and what we're looking for."

    Chambers Global 2015

  • "Their overall service is excellent. At an early stage they invest significant time and effort in understanding our business and continue to do that, and as a result the advice is high quality and appropriate in the business context."

    Chambers UK 2015

  • "Bastions of the IP and TMT areas… particularly proficient in online and digital content concerns. Valued for its ability to utilise the firm's network of offices across Europe. 'They're very commercial for a law firm. They're open to understanding our aims in terms of what we need to do and reaching that point'."

    Chambers UK 2015

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