Practice Areas & Industries: Ogilvy Renault LLP

Practice/Industry Group Overview

Our technology team regularly advises both developers and users of technology in both the private and public sectors on a wide array of matters to structure, draft, negotiate and implement numerous information technology agreements and provides related transactional advice on corporate law, intellectual property law and other related matters. We act for a wide range of clients from small entrepreneurial start-ups through to and including large international private and public companies and government.

Our IT law practice is fully integrated and works closely with the firm's other practice areas in order to provide our clients with seamless access to specialized legal expertise across the spectrum of areas that are particularly relevant to technology clients.

Our team members are experienced IT legal professionals with specialized industry expertise, many of whom have been recognized as leading IT law practitioners by numerous sources, including the Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory and the Practical Law Company's International Guide to the top IT and e-commerce law firms and lawyers.

Contacts
Robert L. Percival
Marc A. Tremblay

Services Available

• Information Technology Transactions: Expertise includes: technology development; acquisition and procurement; Enterprise Software Projects and systems integration; licensing; application service provider services (ASP); services and support arrangements; joint ventures and strategic alliances; reseller, OEM, VAR and other distribution arrangements; commercial exploitation of intellectual property assets; privacy law; opensource software; and numerous other commercial and corporate law matters concerning information technology and related corporate transactions.
• Outsourcing Transactions: IT infrastructure, application development and maintenance, managed services and business process outsourcing (BPO) expertise. Substantial experience in assisting both customers and vendors throughout the entire outsourcing process.
• Electronic Commerce & Internet Transactions: Assisting clients to conduct business on the Internet including online contracting, jurisdictional issues, privacy, web site issues, compliance with electronic commerce legislation, electronic signatures and online service delivery.
• Intellectual Property: Providing advice and guidance on a wide range of IP matters, including: preparation and prosecution of patent, trade-mark and industrial design applications; validity, infringement, freedom to operate (FTO) and patentability opinions; IP litigation; IP audit, due diligence and portfolio management and copyright and entertainment law.
• M&A, Corporate Finance and Venture Capital: Offering a full range of public and private mergers and acquisitions expertise in advising on M&A transactions in the technology sector, including domestic, cross-border and international transactions. Services include supporting our technology clients' venture capital, banking and other corporate financing needs, including IPO and securities expertise, at every stage of corporate growth. Experience in all aspects of VC transactions, from seed investment in early stage ventures to late stage domestic and/or cross border investments in pre-IPO technology companies.
• Other Services: Other services to support our technology clients include: Government Procurement; Employment and Business Immigration Law; Insolvency and Restructuring; Export / Import Controls; Tax, revenue recognition, transfer pricing; R&D Expenditures; Offshore Transactions; Litigation, Arbitration and Dispute Resolution; Electronic Records Management; and Cleantech.