Technology & New Media

Converging technologies have added a new dimension to the information technology (IT) and media industries. Sorting through the multimedia revolution and how it impacts your business calls for accomplished legal counsel. Squire Sanders helps companies expand globally with services including tax planning, developing corporate structures, cross-border M&A, raising capital from foreign investors and localizing agreements. With that knowledge, and our expertise in the IT and media industries, we can help drive your business forward.

Our experience includes:

• Drafting enforceable commercial contracts such as joint ventures, teaming agreements, strategic alliances, major infrastructure procurement, research and development arrangements, complex systems design, build and implementation agreements, turnkey solutions, data storage and networking agreements 
• Structuring and modeling businesses in e-space 
• Drafting and negotiating complex e-business deals 
• Creating and managing alliances, partnerships and e-communities
• Negotiating mergers and acquisitions in the technology sector
• Building web infrastructure and dealing with related hosting, trading, cryptography and other contracting issues
• Drafting and negotiating managed services, technology and business process outsourcing arrangements (onshore and offshore) for a diverse range of industries
• Minimizing domestic and cross-border liability exposure
• Monitoring legal compliance
• Developing privacy and data protection policies
• Protecting proprietary assets
• Counseling on digital rights management systems and the prevention of infringing uses of technologies

We use the combined resources of our business, intellectual property, regulatory and litigation lawyers. Additionally, we often bring in our firm’s tax, employee benefits and other lawyers to assist on issues as they arise. Applying this team approach, we have emerged as international leaders in advising technology clients on growing and protecting business value. With offices in the Americas, Asia and Europe, Squire Sanders can help you address local laws and politics as well as language barriers and cultural differences to keep your business running smoothly. Our local market knowledge and experience is invaluable to our global and domestic clients in helping them assess risk and in finding creative solutions to the business-critical issues that arise in technology transactions.

Case Studies

Brazil Media Regulation

The Brazilian government is in the process of implementing new media regulations, as well as a review of the mass communication law. Our client, a prominent player in the Internet sector, is concerned about draft regulations that would apply local co...