Technology & Commercial
The McGrigors Technology & Commercial team offers a full range of legal services to clients in the UK and abroad across a range of sectors (including financial services, retail, pharmaceuticals, parallel imports, life sciences, food and drink, fashion, sport, energy and renewables, oil & gas, contract manufacture, marketing and education) across three practice areas:
Intellectual Property
Our team works with clients who want to develop, protect, exploit and enforce their intellectual property, who want to defend against infringement claims or challenge competitor IP or who want to acquire or invest in intellectual property. Our team is rated number 1 in Chambers and Legal 500 and includes specialist IP dispute experts.
Information & Communications Technology
Whether our client is supplying or procuring ICT systems/services, our team is able to provide all legal advice. From complex, high value ICT outsourcing projects involving offshore suppliers to smaller scale software development, licence and support arrangements we provide a complete end to end service centred on the management of real business risks using contractual mechanisms that work in practice.
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Commercial
Relationships with key customers and suppliers are critical to the success of any business. We have extensive experience in advising clients in relation to key contracts such as business process outsourcing, distribution contracts, commercial agency contracts, sponsorship arrangements, procurement contracts in relation to goods and services and payment processing services. We emphasise the importance of understanding the relationship between the parties and the key risks which need to be addressed to ensure that our service is commercially focussed and pragmatic. Our team includes disputes experts specialising in technology and brand-related contractual and commercial disputes including disputes under all types of contract listed here.