Technology & Data Contracts
We document technology relationships for companies whose product is code, data, or the infrastructure underneath them.
Eleanor Finch’s practice covers SaaS and software licensing, implementation and systems-integration agreements, API and data-sharing arrangements, technology transfer and IP licensing, and the data-processing architecture that sits under UK GDPR and the Data Protection Act 2018.
Technology contracts fail most often at the junctions: acceptance criteria that cannot be measured, service credits that do not incentivise cure, IP ownership that collapses when developers and clients both contribute code, and data terms that cannot survive a regulator’s letter. We draft those junctions first.
We also advise on open-source compliance in commercial products, escrow of critical source, change-of-control rights in long-term platform deals, and the vendor lock-in and exit provisions that boards increasingly demand before committing to multi-year cloud estates.
What we cover
- SaaS, software licence, and professional-services agreements
- Systems integration, implementation, and acceptance regimes
- Data processing, international transfers, and controller/processor allocation
- IP ownership, background/foreground split, and technology transfer
- API, data-sharing, and marketplace terms
- Open-source, escrow, and platform-exit planning
