SERVICES

Business Contracts and Transactions

Our commercial lawyers can advise, prepare, review or help with negotiations for all types of legal contracts and structures including those relating to purchase or sale agreements, supply agreements, service agreements, distribution or business partnering agreements, commercial and IT contracts and government procurement. VeriLex will make sure that the contract terms and conditions are suitable for your business now and into the future and ensure that due diligence standards are met whether that is in relation to supplier or customer agreements or through a tender response or specific transaction execution. Well drafted contracts that are clear contracts make for a good business relationship because they are built on a solid footing and help both parties understand their respective rights and obligations. This would can be done on a project by project basis or as a in-house role on a part time basis.

 

Information and Communications Technology (ICT) is a fast-moving area of the law where our clients need to meld their technological and operational communications requirements with a solid legal framework that will protect their interests. At VeriLex our team have a wealth of experience working with the biggest ICT companies in the world and we are comfortable with any ICT or enterprise wide contract no matter how complex. Whether, you're:  dipping your toes into the world of cloud computing, outsourcing your IT Service provision, need help with Software licensing, Intellectual property protection or ensuring compliance with legal or regulatory requirements, VeriLex has the experience to provide its clients with the information they need to minimise the risks to their business.

 

Commercial Disputes

VeriLex has significant experience in helping businesses avoid and resolve disputes. VeriLex are able to offer our clients high quality, tactical and solution driven support in dealing with their active or potential disputes. 

VeriLex offers dispute resolution services covering a wide range of problems including breach of contract, building contract disputes, licensing and copyright infringement including software audit disputes. Some disputes will never be settled in mediation, VeriLex is ready and able to assist you to manage both that process and your financial exposure with a fixed price service and agreed scope.

 

Contract Management

VeriLex understands that for clients to manage the contracts they have is often a challenge particularly when there are lots of them. Investments made, and benefits received in properly setting up contracts can often be impacted or undone if these contracts are not managed well.  This can lead to adverse impact for the business in areas around delay, performance issues, cost liabilities and disputes. It is important for clients to stay on top of these contracts to ensure they receive from the other side what they expected to get when they entered into the contract. Poor contract management may lead to a loss of rights, and benefit which may not be able to be reversed.

 

VeriLex can take over and manage your contract portfolio whether that be a single or multiple contracts or just provide specific input and advice at applicable times. This could involve:

• Identifying the principal rights and obligations in each contract of the respective parties,

• identifying any areas of non-compliance or trigger points and providing timely input and advice to minimise risk and exposure and manage situations before they develop into full blown disputes.

Additionally, help with internal training can be provided and support in identification and development of an issues register to manage and minimise contract and project risk.

Our ultimate goal is to help you achieve the best commercial outcome when you are confronted with commercial or business partner disputes, employee disputes, misleading and deceptive conduct and contractual disputes. 

 

Business and Corporate structures 

If you are establishing a new business enterprise VeriLex, can help you make sure that you are setting the business up soundly. This may include the provision of legal services to act as an in-house role for a specific period of time or ad-hoc as required. Such services could be used to assist with the provision of Corporate legal services including establishing contract and business process and policy templates, and ensuring you are meeting applicable regulatory and compliance obligations.

 

Privacy (including GDPR)

Information is one of the most valuable assets an organisation holds. We work with a range of businesses and public sector organisations to help them protect and exploit the information they hold, while navigating their way through complex legal requirements. Whether companies store or process personal and commercially sensitive data as a part of their activities.

VeriLex can advises on data protection, confidentiality and privacy issues both locally and internationally particularly around the areas relating to the implementation of GDPR compliant processes and policies.

GDPR: There has been a lot of noise around GDPR particularly focusing on the new compliance burden and the penalties for data breaches. 

Complacency is not really an option and it should not be underestimated the amount of work that may be required to become GDPR compliant.  We look to work with our clients to identify what needs to be done within their businesses and how best to do it.

 

VeriLex’s recommended GDPR strategy for clients starts with a simple 3 step process:

Provide an Audit/Gap analysis – VeriLex prepares a questionnaire (tailored and relevant to your business you may have in Europe) the answers to which will give us, for example, detailed information on what data you hold, how you hold it, how you process it, who you share it with (including internally and across borders).

Provide Recommendations – VeriLex produces a report giving a series of practical recommendations for the client to ensure they are GDPR ready and compliant.

Undertake or assist with Implementation – you, with VeriLex’s support if you want it, then decide how, when and who best to implement the recommendations and lead any requisite changes to policies and procedures.

 

Intellectual Property

Intellectual property can set a business apart from its competitors. Company’s need to be thinking, as early as possible, about what Intellectual Property they might be creating, who owns it, and how they can control and exploit it, whilst not forgetting what they can do to prevent it from being taken, used or stolen.

This can get very complicated, and things aren't always as they might seem. 

Our team can directly engage with clients’ legal and technical teams to help develop strategies to protect, exploit and enforce those intellectual property assets and maximise value. This is particularly important where the company is in start-up mode or has developed an asset that they wish to develop or commercialise and an important part in our clients’ development strategy. We advise on patents, copyright, design rights, trade marks, passing off and unfair competition.