Commercial Contracts lawyers

Arly Carlquist

For more than 25 years, Arly Carlquist has worked with all types of IT agreements, including those regarding system development, outsourcing, distribution, consultants, and software licenses as well as all related legal and commercial matters. Additionally, Arly has significant experience with IP related matters, including protection, buying and selling, licensing (inbound/outbound), and enforcement of IP rights. Regarding regulations concerning copyrights, Arly maintains an updated knowledge of the development within both Denmark and the EU. In such matters, he has advised some of the world’s leading tech companies. In connection to Arly’s extensive insights in IT and IP law, he has continuously worked with related areas where experience with complex contractual issues is crucial. These include cooperation agreements, development agreements, and other types of commercial agreements.

HortenDahl

Armando Cordoba

Managing Partner at ECIJA Panama

Ecija

Arnaud Vanitterbeek

Arnaud Vanitterbeek is a senior partner at Laurius and a specialist in private M&A, due diligence, corporate restructuring, commercial contracts and shareholder disputes. With a solid knowledge of company law, he advises entrepreneurs and companies from start-up to exit. As a lawyer, Arnaud also gained specific experience in the insurance sector and related transactions. Arnaud handles his cases with great dedication towards his clients. Personal and precise, he respects strict deadlines without exception. Arnaud is recognised as a lawyer for his constant focus and ditto service, always aiming to find pragmatic and innovative solutions.

Laurius

Arne Byberg

Arne is one of the Norway's most experienced lawyers within IT contracts, and with more than 20 years of experience in technology and law.

Wikborg Rein

Arthur Duus

Partner

Advokatfirmaet Simonsen Vogt Wiig

Arístides Victoria

Partner

Ecija DVMS

Asaf Harel

Partner

Meitar Law Offices

Aschalew Ashagre Byness

SNA Law Firm LLP

Asem B. Bakenova

A partner in the corporate business transactions practice at Morgan Lewis, Asem Bakenova assists clients with all aspects of corporate law matters, infrastructure transactions, and intellectual property (IP) matters. She is admitted to practice as a patent attorney in Kazakhstan. Asem helps clients draft and negotiate agreements and other supporting documents, including fixed price, cost reimbursable, and hybrid engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) arrangements for major infrastructure projects in Kazakhstan; chemical feedstock and offtake agreements; and trademark protection, copyright, and technology licenses. For more information, view her bio at https://www.morganlewis.com/bios/abakenova.

Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP

Ash Masrani

Ash Masrani is an associate on our Complex Commercial Transactions & Outsourcing Team. She focuses on strategic technology and commercial transactions across various industry sectors, with a keen emphasis on complex outsourcings and digital transformation initiatives. Ash excels in guiding clients through the lifecycle of a transaction, from structuring deals and provider selection to negotiations, contract execution and post-contract management. Ash holds extensive experience in advising clients on strategic information technology outsourcing (ITO) and business process outsourcing (BPO) transactions; software-as-a-service (SaaS) agreements; core systems implementations; software licensing and development arrangements; branding agreements, reseller agreements; and other related corporate and commercial transactions.

Clifford Chance

Ashan Arif

Ashan Arif is head of corporate and commercial team and Director of forburyTECH, a tech start-up advisory of Clarkslegal. Ashan provides corporate, company and banking advice to a wide range of businesses including start-ups, owner-managed businesses, SMEs and large listed corporates. His expertise includes mergers & acquisitions, private equity, corporate, investments, restructurings, asset and business transfers, joint ventures, commercial agreements, banking, finance, alternative finance, fund raisings, general company and corporate matters. Ashan acts for clients from across a range of sectors with a particular focus on the technology, media & entertainment, motor and hotel industries. Experience Start ups, university spin-outs and early stage Ashan advises start-ups, mainly in the technology sector, university spin-outs and early stage companies, finding ways to help grow the business quickly and efficiently through Clarkslegal’s relationships with investors and financiers. Mergers, acquisitions and disposals Ashan regularly advises clients on mergers, acquisitions and disposals, including management buy-outs and buy-ins, advising clients from a commercial and strategic perspective, as well as legal, getting involved in transactions as early as possible. Fundraising – angels, private equity, venture capital Ashan has extensive experience and understanding of raising equity finance, from angel investment, private equity or venture capital. Owner managers Ashan regularly acts for exiting owner managers and shareholders of SMEs on the sale of their company. Banking and finance Advises clients on debt finance and related security documentation, whether as part of a corporate transaction or a stand-alone financing. This includes advising on loan agreements, debentures, charges, guarantees and other forms of security as well as satisfying the lender’s requirements, and Islamic Finance. Reorganisations and demergers Ashan works closely with the client’s accountants and tax advisers during the reorganisation of a company, group of companies or a specific part of their business. Business divorce Ashan has advised numerous clients on successfully settling shareholder disputes aiming to preserve the integrity of the ongoing business. Shareholders’ agreements and joint ventures Ashan regularly advises on shareholders’ agreements and joint venture arrangements, helping clients to understand the importance of documenting key issues governing the relationships of the parties.

Clarkslegal LLP

Ashleigh Blair

Partner

Webber Wentzel

Ashley Avery

Ashley is an expert in advising clients on complex data privacy and confidentiality issues, brand protection and exploitation and software development and licensing matters. She has previously worked with a number of high-profile clients across the technology, pensions, retail and financial services sectors and was seconded to Ambassador Theatre Group and Deliveroo.

Foot Anstey

Ashley Baker

Partner - Corporate and Finance Transactions

Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner

Ashraf Abdel-Nabi

Partner

Ibrachy & Dermarkar

Asle Aarbakke

Partner

BAHR

Assem Al Hawy

Founding Partner

Shield Advocates - Al Hawy & Hassane

Asta Macijauskienė

Partner, Attorney at Law, Head of Data Protection, IP and IT

WIDEN

Atanas Valov

Practice areas: Real Estate Law, Commercial Contracts and Corporate Law, Insurance Law, Labor and Social Insurance Law, Litigation.

Penkov, Markov & Partners

Athina Evagorou​

Associate

Elias Neocleous & Co LLC

Audrey Rustichelli

Audrey Rustichelli is the head of our Technologies & IP department. She advises clients on a wide range of information technology and communications matters and has extensive experience in outsourcing agreements, Internet and e-commerce, telecommunications and data protection issues including assisting clients getting GDPR ready. Her extended experience, notably as head of the IP/ITc practice in the Luxembourg office of the largest American business law firm, is also an asset to handle issues related to commercial agreements, queries for regulated companies or enforcing intellectual property rights.

Stellan Partners

Augusto Cesar Barbosa De Souza

Partner

Veirano Advogados

Aurelia Tunru

Partner, Corporate Group Practice Leader

Cairncross & Hempelmann

Aurélie VUCHER-BONDET

Partner

Cornet Vincent Ségurel