The lawyers in our technology practice have top-tier legal credentials. But our clients also benefit from the fact that many of our technology attorneys held legal, technical or management positions in technology businesses prior to joining Hogan & Hartson. Our understanding of technology and our familiarity with business practices and industry standards enables us to help our clients focus on what matters most to them from a legal, business and technical perspective. We are in touch with the realities of today’s fast-paced technology environment and we are committed to providing responsive and efficient legal services, recognizing them to be critical to our clients’ ability to achieve a competitive advantage in the marketplace.

We have extensive experience assisting our technology clients in structuring, drafting and negotiating transactions at every stage of commercialization, from development to production to distribution. Because we're also experienced intellectual property attorneys, we are able to help our clients maximize the protection of the intellectual property associated with their technology assets at the appropriate stages. We work with our clients to develop customer agreements that protect their legal interests without creating a barrier to marketing and selling.

Our experience in representing technology providers gives us a valuable advantage in also representing consumers in acquiring technology, whether to improve their mission-critical systems or to expand their core capabilities and the reach of their business.

Related Experience

• After one of the nation's foremost medical technology companies selected us as preferred outside counsel, we handled more than 140 transactions in 2002 and 2003 alone, ranging in value from $250,000 to several hundred million dollars. These transactions ranged from sophisticated development, licensing and manufacturing agreements, to international distribution and value-added reseller agreements, to strategic equipment and service purchase agreements.
• We are preferred outside counsel to a large cable system operator, for which we handle technology matters, including customer agreements, hardware, software and content acquisition transactions, and telecommunications agreements.
• We represented a large consulting firm in negotiating an outsourcing agreement with an international satellite network operator. The agreement covered software development, application maintenance and product management for a large customer care and billing application.
• When a biosciences company sought to license its proprietary food supplements for use by the world's largest manufacturers of infant formula, we provided strategic counseling and drafted and negotiated the licensing agreements.
• In connection with a large energy company's purchase of a number of electric generating plants in the United States, we represented it in negotiating agreements for the continued provision of outsourced information technology services and for acquisition of a mission-critical generation management system.
• We represented a large regional power company in negotiating an agreement to license a key business application.
• We represented an international financial services company in its procurement of information technology goods and services, including system design, software development and acquisition, Web site design and hosting, hardware acquisition and professional services and support.
• We successfully assisted a well-known non-profit organization in commercializing its drug discovery technology through a patent and know-how license.
• In collaboration with our mergers and acquisitions group, we helped a Dutch consortium of pharmaceutical companies acquire a U.S. company and its proprietary drug discovery technology.
• We assisted a group purchasing organization with a transaction to engage a service provider to develop an online system that would enable more than 200 member hospitals to purchase medical equipment and supplies from suppliers that had contracted with the U.S. Government Printing Office.