Buddle Findlay has a national team of legal specialists experienced in all aspects of information and communication technology (ICT) law and e-commerce.  Our ICT specialists have many years experience advising in the ICT area, both in private practice and as in-house counsel.

We can provide real value to clients on:

  • Supply and procurement of ICT resources from negotiating and documenting the supply, procurement and implementation of the technology, to advising on any disputes that may arise
  • Commercialisation arrangements for software and other ICT intellectual property
  • Establishing online businesses and offerings, including drafting standard terms and conditions
  • Establishing and administering ICT businesses and joint ventures
  • Corporate transactions involving ICT and e-commerce businesses, including capital raising, entry and exit of investors, business acquisition and disposal.

We provide cost-effective advice tailored to the needs of both public and private sector entities.  We collaborate with clients and (where appropriate) provide leadership in order to ensure that our clients' ICT objectives are achieved.

E-commerce

We act for both specialist e-commerce providers and traditional businesses setting up e-commerce ventures and sales channels

Recent work

  • Advising New Zealand Post on the procurement of Google Apps, representing the first take-up of Google Apps by a major commercial entity in New Zealand, and the establishment of the online directory Localist (www.localist.co.nz)
  • Acting for Vend, cloud-based point of sale software provider, on its capital raising rounds
  • Acting for Litmos, developer of an online learning management system, on its sale to Callidus Software
  • Acting for Yahoo! acquiring daily deal website, Spreets, in Australia and New Zealand
  • Acting for daily deal website Groupy on its establishment and shareholding arrangements, and eventual sale to Yellow 
  • Acting for Trade Me, New Zealand’s premier online auction venue
  • Advising First Data Corporation on its acquisition of Peace Software
  • Advising the Electricity Commission on the procurement of IT systems and the contracting of 6 service providers for the real time operation of the wholesale electricity market
  • Advising Auckland City Council on all legal issues associated with implementing over 20 online services for New Zealand’s largest local authority
  • Drafted a Software Development and Distribution Agreement to assist CCH NZ in the market launch of software tool to assist lawyers in relation to property deals
  • Drafting and negotiating contracts for Sky Television to implement an interactive personal video recorder (with hard drive etc) on Sky Television’s digital satellite system
  • Advising Accident Compensation Corporation on the acquisition of a new enterprise wide claimant management system and related services from FINEOS and other parties
  • Advising Government Departments Buying Group on the acquisition of a worldwide virtual private network of IT/Telecommunication services from AT&T
  • Advising M-co on the establishment of “Unlisted”, an internet based securities trading facility which now has a market capitalisation of over NZ$1b (www.unlisted.co.nz)
  • Acting for New Zealand Police over the last decade on its progressive ICT upgrade programme, including Police’s Computing Infrastructure Replacement Project
  • Acting for Sky Television on a wide range of ICT matters including procurement of hardware for Sky’s digital services, telecommunications contracts for data and voice services, transmissions contracts and satellite contracts
  • Acting for 3 government departments in the joint procurement of a shared, international managed wide area network from AT&T
  • Advising Massey University on the commercialisation of intellectual property
  • Acting for Energy Intellect on the establishment of electricity data delivery contracts, business sales and capital raising    

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