Our lawyers have negotiated billions of dollars in software license and SaaS transactions. Put our expertise, business focused counseling and low rates to work for your company.
Expert SaaS Lawyers
SaaS Attorneys + Software Licensing Lawyers That Get Deals Done
License Agreements
From drafting a clickwrap or an 80 page master with a Fortune 500 customer, we have negotiated every type of software/SaaS/MSA agreement out there.
SLAs / Support
We help clients navigate the world of service level agreements, maintenance and support terms, RPOs/RTOs, security standards and all tech related terms.
Business Terms
Privacy terms and data processing agreements are critical for any B2B SaaS provider. We cost-effectively guide clients to compliance.
Intellectual Property
Open Source
Software-as-a-Service
Whether its protecting a licensor's products and IP or making sure a licensee gets rights to what they need, we thread the needle on IP matters.
Rarely will you find any proprietary programs or offerings that don't include some OSS. We can help with the legal implications and ensure compliance.
We've drafted hundreds of SaaS and PaaS agreements for clients. If you are a SaaS provider avoid the problems of a template and call us.
Experts in all types of software licensing and SaaS issues:
Hosting/AWS
Your SaaS solution is often reliant on third parties to help you host, manage and deliver client solutions. Our SaaS lawyers have deep cloud experience.
AI Law
Our expert AI lawyers guide you on legal implications, data training issues and customer concerns when integrating AI in your products.
Privacy
Whether its monthly subscriptions, annual licenses or usage based models - we make sure you are covered on commercial terms.
. . .and much more.
Why our software licensing attorneys are experts:
/ Experience
Our software licensing lawyers negotiated billions of dollars in software licensing and technology transactions - for both licensors and licensee and for standard OTS software terms or true custom development projects.
/ Valley Exp.
Our founder learned the nuances of software licensing at Wilson Sonsini - helping innovative tech companies at all stages of growth and with all types of software and technology. Put true Valley expertise to work for you.
/ Users
We are avid technologists and technology consumers. We think its important to speak the same languages as programmers and developers and thus have ensured we have a strong grasp of all things that go into product development.
/ Deal Skills
Whether its drafting a tailored license agreement form for your new product to negotiating a $100M bet-the-company licensing deal, we know all the software licensing issues and have negotiated great outcomes for all clients.
Example transactions of our software licensing lawyers:
Negotiated numerous licensing and technology agreements for and against parties such as Texas Instruments, Intel, Sony, Apple, Adobe, Microsoft, IBM, CDW, Motorola, Publix, Goldman Sachs, Wachovia Bank, Verizon, Cox & AT&T.
Counseled public health care software provider in strategic transactions, including in-licenses of value-added products to create a broader and more integrated customer solution + significantly increase marginal revenues on existing software solutions.
Advised client in creation and implementation of off-shore development center business model generating more than $10M in additional annual revenue from an existing client relationship.
Advised a security and DRM software company in implementing a new preferred customer program offering that allowed for renegotiation of existing contracts to decrease liability exposure while also increasing revenue.
Negotiated strategic licensing arrangements with a global digital signal processing and semiconductor company to seed the market with client’s software and allow multi-million dollar up-sell opportunities for client’s sales team.
Represented a large financial services public company on licensing of financial decision making products, and purchase of network infrastructure from a leading hardware and software technology provider.
