Your Digital Offerings
Your digital offerings
There are so many wide ranging applications of technology and this is ever expanding.
Our IT lawyers have supported a huge number of clients designing, implementing and monetising fascinating and unique technological solutions which may include:
- Cloud solutions
- Local software
- Services
- Hardware
Legal considerations vary depending what the particular digital offering looks like, from a pure stand alone SaaS solution to an item of hardware incorporating local software that integrates with multiple third party elements and also includes a SaaS based back-end.
Because we are through and through IT lawyers with a genuine interest in technology, we like to get under the skin of the offerings to ensure that we offer properly tailored support and ensure that you benefit from our industry experience and the wide range of legal services we can offer.
Areas we can support:
Development
Our employment team is here to help with your legal needs, from supporting on immigration, terms and policies to disciplinary actions.
Developing and negotiating contracts with third party developers to ensure:
- You receive what you expect, see specification vs requirements →
- Your rights are protected
- You receive the levels of service you require
Working jointly with others creates a host of legal and commercial challenges.
We can support with:
- Collaboration/joint development agreements
- Joint venture agreements
- Partnership agreements
Our IT lawyers are well-versed in contracting for the inclusion of third party technology, dealing with commercialised offerings as well as open-source.
Integrations are key to many digital offerings and we are here to support on API agreements →
Additional considerations arise if you plan to offer a mobile app →
Resilience of your digital offerings gives you peace of mind, but also does the same for your customers. However, we regularly find measures aren’t worth the paper they are written on.
Increasingly commonly, our clients’ offerings include some level of generative AI, which needs to be advised on,
Our IT and data lawyers work with clients to find pragmatic solutions in an area that can throw up significant hurdles for our clients
Once you have developed your digital offering, you need to ensure it is maintained to ensure the offering remains operational and legally compliant but also relevant in the market.
Contracts with third party maintainers can be complicated, see IT Services →
In particular, it is key to consider:
- Specification vs requirements →
- Resilience
Monetising your digital offerings
Click through for our support on:
- Your website →
- Market places
- Multi-channel
- Payment →
- Digital marketing →
We support on:
- Framework agreements
- Master services agreements
- Standard terms of supply
- Privacy policies and cookie policies
- AUP policies
We support whether working on:
- Traditional payment models
- Commission arrangements
- Rebate arrangements
- Freemium
We support on appointing:
- Introducers
- Agents
- Resellers
- Distributors
Care needs to be taken to ensure you are granting the right level of rights to your customers. One example is around licence type and extent.
Your customers are likely to be concerned around ensuring continuity of provision should an issue occur. This is a complex area, particularly with cloud based solutions and we are here to support you.
Disputes
For all issues surrounding:
- Your intellectual property rights (patents, trade marks, copyright, designs)
- Your use of the intellectual property rights of others
our IP team are here to support you
For other disputes, our IT focussed dispute resolution team are here to support.
Meet our team
Jaskeerat Sanghera
Managing Associate
Testimonials
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Capita Group plc
"The team has highly qualified people who are approachable, understanding and helpful. They are swift in response, agile and articulate."
Chambers & Partners, 2025
"They have a good mix of background expertise combined with a pragmatic approach and industry knowledge."
Chambers & Partners, 2025
"Freeths are very knowledgeable in the sector."
Chambers & Partners, 2025
The team are highly skilled and experienced, sharing unique insights to solve problems and offer potential solutions.
The Legal 500, 2024
They are very hands-on and join meetings, supporting our teams and working collaboratively.
The Legal 500, 2024
They are also very responsive and helped when timescales were tight.
The Legal 500, 2024
They are skilled, articulate and levelled.
The Legal 500, 2024
Competitive, risk averse problem solvers.
The Legal 500, 2024
Freeths provide training, articles, and know-how. They are excellent value for money.
Chambers & Partners, 2024
The team at Freeths are experts in their area, and are also extremely effective communicators.
Chambers & Partners, 2024
Loving technology
Our IT lawyers live and breathe all things digital and data
Speaking technology
Acronyms fill this sector. Our lawyers know most of them and love learning new ones
Embracing technology
Technology is critical to our success and something that we embrace
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Whatever your legal needs, our wide ranging expertise is here to support you and your business, so let’s start your legal journey today and get you in touch with the right lawyer to get you started.
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