Communications and Information Technology & Digital Law
Internet and E-commerce
- Drafting contracts to manage client-supplier relations (with agencies, intermediaries and between IT companies and their clients
- Legal validation of business models;
- Drafting contracts, Terms and Conditions of sale and use and legal notices;
- Advising on on-line advertising (referencing, positioning of advertisements, service contracts).
Data privacy
- Advising businesses in their handling of personal data and to comply with legal requirements;
- Ensuring compliance with the GDPR;
- Putting internal procedures in place and assisting DPOs (data protection officers), setting up BCRs (binding corporate rules);
- Drafting and reviewing contracts;
- Providing legal consultations on projects concerning personal data;
- Advising and representing on regulatory or contentious matters involving the CNIL and being present during inspections.
Domain Names
- Carrying out availability and freedom to operate searches, filing and global management. Constituting and consolidating portfolios according to the client’s business strategy and economic policy;
- Auditing rights ;
- Global monitoring and analysing the results and making recommendations (the firm provides collaborative tools);
- Pre-litigation: notifications, cease and desist letters and recovery;
- Litigation: extrajudicial proceedings (UDRP, SYRELI and similar) at an international level;
- Carrying out financial evaluations and transactions; valuing domain names and portfolios;
- Advising on strategy (domain name naming charters, litigation strategy tools, intra-group management, optimisation and consolidation of portfolios).
Anti-Piracy and online brand protection
- Auditing rights;
- Monitoring IP and IT rights on the internet, social networks and mobile applications;
- Analysing use, risk mapping and making recommendations;
- Notifying Internet Service Providers;
- Obtaining court orders and carrying out litigation.
E-reputation
- Auditing and monitoring;
- Analysing and evaluating the clients’ brands;
- Advising on the development of clients’ communications policies on the internet and social networks;
- Assessing the damage to reputation and commencing proceedings (both through the courts and extrajudicially).
IT Law and Contracts
- Drafting the necessary contracts for IT projects between IT companies and their clients;
- Protecting digital assets (e.g. software, databases and applications);
- IT litigation.
