The technology industry is driven by innovation. Players in the field are faced with globalisation, the need for capital investment, product development, and products protection. Our advice goes beyond advising companies operating in the sector in their daily corporate, financial, and litigation assignments to assessing and charting intellectual property portfolios and IP rights issues connected with content production and distribution.
We offer a full range of services relating to software, hardware, innovative technology solutions, and other technology-oriented products, goods, and services, such as drafting, reviewing and negotiating acquisition, development, procurement, licensing, outsourcing, consulting, implementation, maintenance, support and management agreements.
Some of our recent assignments include:
advising German affiliate of NASDAQ OMX Helsinki listed Outotec on setting up joint venture with state-owned Eesti Energia for developing and commercialising innovative oil shale processing technology and constructing production plant;
advising Swedbank, SEB and Sampo Pank, the Estonian branch of Danske Bank, on sale of the Estonian payment card processing company Pankade Kaardikeskus to leading Scandinavian operator Northern European Transaction Services (NETS);
advising Webmedia, the fastest growing software development company in the Baltics, on all aspects of law;
advising Estonian subsidiary of Empower, multinational group providing construction, maintenance and professional services within energy and telecom industry sectors, with respect to corporate, commercial as well as collective employment relationships and other employment issues;
advising on privatisation of an Estonian broadcasting enterprise where French telecom and broadcasting company TDF Group acquired a 49 per cent shareholding in the state-owned telecom enterprise;
drafting, revising, and assessing service agreements with creative employees, engineers, and intellectual service providers associated with protecting their works subject to copyright protection.
Chambers Europe 2012 comment to this practice: “This four-lawyer team is one of the largest dedicated to intellectual property law in the country, and offers a complete service in contentious and non-contentious matters. Peers and clients appreciate the team’s depth of knowledge and huge experience in everything from patents to trade marks. The group is also highly esteemed for its drafting and negotiation skills, and attracts clients from across the Baltic and Scandinavian regions. Sources say: “Top-class service.” “
IT, Technology and Telecoms
The technology industry is driven by innovation. Players in the field are faced with globalisation, the need for capital investment, product development, and products protection. Our advice goes beyond advising companies operating in the sector in their daily corporate, financial, and litigation assignments to assessing and charting intellectual property portfolios and IP rights issues connected with content production and distribution.
We offer a full range of services relating to software, hardware, innovative technology solutions, and other technology-oriented products, goods, and services, such as drafting, reviewing and negotiating acquisition, development, procurement, licensing, outsourcing, consulting, implementation, maintenance, support and management agreements.
Some of our recent assignments include:
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Chambers Europe 2012 comment to this practice: “This four-lawyer team is one of the largest dedicated to intellectual property law in the country, and offers a complete service in contentious and non-contentious matters. Peers and clients appreciate the team’s depth of knowledge and huge experience in everything from patents to trade marks. The group is also highly esteemed for its drafting and negotiation skills, and attracts clients from across the Baltic and Scandinavian regions. Sources say: “Top-class service.” “