Practice Areas & Industries: Hunton & Williams LLP

Practice/Industry Group Overview

The Hunton & Williams Technology Practice Group offers responsive, comprehensive, high-quality legal services to both businesses that produce technology products and services and to those that are technology-dependent.

More than 120 of our 850 attorneys in 17 offices throughout the world focus their work on technology product and service companies and technology-dependent companies. Hunton & Williams provides a full range of company life-cycle services to our technology clients tailored to their specialized and individual needs.

Our Client Base

Hunton & Williams' Technology Practice Group delivers legal and related consulting services across the technology industry marketplace for clients ranging in size from start-ups to Global 2000 companies. We regularly execute transactions ranging in complexity from the raising of seed capital to initial public offerings, cross-border tender offers, complex joint ventures and multinational outsourcing arrangements.

Services Available

We work in and understand a wide range of industries and functional areas, including:

• Internet and e-commerce
• On-line information services including credit reporting, risk management, CRM, credit card processing and privacy
• Functional area outsourcing including IT, telecommunications and pension, health, welfare and benefit plans
• Computer software and hardware manufacturing and distribution
• Telecommunications services and networks
• IT consulting and system integration
• Healthcare
• Banking and financial services
• Restaurant
• Retail
• Transportation and logistics
• Utilities
• Payroll and Benefits Administration

Corporate Finance

Hunton & Williams' Technology Practice includes transaction planning, structuring, regulatory compliance, negotiation and documentation of:

• Strategic partnering alliances composed of equity/debt investment, technology transfers and marketing arrangements
• Venture capital investment for issuing companies and venture investors as well as fund formation
• Initial public and secondary offerings of equity and debt securities and related public reporting activities for issuers and underwriters
• Tender offers, mergers, acquisitions, and other business combinations for public and private companies
• Banking and other commercial and financial relationships

Technology Transactions and Counseling

Our size and diverse talents allow us to provide counseling and services related to domestic and multi-national technology transactions, including:

• ERP Level Software development and systems integration arrangements
• Information technology procurement (hardware, services, software, network, outsourcing)
• Intellectual property licensing, acquisition and sales including ASP and App Hosting
• Information management and Privacy Regulation/Policy
• Software and hardware multi-level distribution systems
• End-user and reseller marketing and sales arrangements
• Patent, trademark, and copyright
• Telecommunications services arrangements (voice, data, video, narrowband, broadband, wireless, IP)

Functional Area Outsourcing

We understand the business imperatives involved in functional area outsourcing arrangements. We have assisted more than 70 clients in defining, structuring, negotiating, documenting and implementing outsourcing arrangements ranging in value from $100 million to $2.2 billion in eight countries and across numerous industry sectors, including:

• On-line information and processing services Aerospace
• Computer equipment distribution
• Banking and financial services
• Healthcare
• Retail
• Restaurant
• Telecommunications
• Utilities
• Payroll and Benefits Administration

Our outsourcing arrangement expertise and experience include:

• ASP and Applications Hosting for Internet Operations
• Pension, health, welfare and benefit plan administration
• Applications and systems software development and maintenance
• Data center, point of sale and back office operations
• Desktop, LAN, and help desk operations
• Human resource functions
• Call center operations
• Logistics and fulfillment
• Manufacturing
• Systems integration projects
• Telecommunications including multi-national IP networks

Internet & E-Commerce

Hunton & Williams' wealth of experience representing businesses in the Internet and e-commerce industries enables us to provide a broad array of services, including:

• e-commerce transaction enabling systems, content arrangements, and policies
• Electronic contracting, digital signatures and User
• Authentication
• Encryption; software export regulations
• Internet access services
• Internet procurement operations, retail/auction transactions, web site services and operations, product/services distribution systems
• Marketing/affinity arrangements
• On-line information services including processing and privacy policy and regulation
• On-line software licensing and distribution including ASP and App Hosting Services
• Telecommunications services (narrowband, broadband, wireless, IP)
• B to B, B to C, Exchanges and Internet Malls

The Center for Information Policy Leadership @ Hunton & Williams

The Center for Information Policy Leadership at Hunton & Williams provides a unique combination of strategic consulting, legal and policy development services for the information industry. Led by internationally-known privacy experts, the Center assists companies with the development of new global privacy principles for a digital age by facilitating thought leadership on various policy topics and by advising chief privacy officers and other senior executives on the development of global corporate information management programs.

Other Practice Areas

Hunton & Williams provides a full menu of traditional domestic and multi-national corporate services specifically tailored to the needs of technology service and product and technology-dependent companies, including Capital Markets and Securities Compliance, Securities Litigation, Antitrust, Employment, Environmental, Estate Planning, Executive Compensation and Benefits, Litigation and Alternative Dispute Resolution, Bankruptcy and failed ventures, Real Estate and Taxation.

Clients:
MercExchange, L.L.C. , Sentraliant, Inc., American Electronics Association, International Cadmium Association,