Baker & McKenzie's IT/E-Commerce North American Practice Group practitioners offer a wide array of legal services relating to complex information technology licensing, e-commerce, privacy, and media and entertainment. We represent major public companies, leading trade associations, government agencies, and other businesses and entrepreneurs in virtually every commercial and financial center throughout the world.
- Our IT practitioners have vast experience advising local and global technology clients with complex licensing, distribution, VAR, OEM, reseller, and other major transactional matters.
- We have assisted software companies, hardware companies, and companies comprising every buzzword category in e-commerce: B2Cs, B2Bs, B2Es, B2B2Cs, ISPs, ASPs, EDI companies, infrastructure providers, and e-commerce enablers.
- Our IT practitioners have advised clients on virtually every form of IT transaction, including licensing and distribution, hosting agreements, outsourcing, software development deals, joint ventures, strategic alliance deals, and systems procurement.
- We have unparalleled experience with cross-border IT transactions.
Baker & McKenzie is leading the way in helping companies in all industries face the legal challenges of electronic commerce. Our electronic commerce legal experience ranges from helping to make government policy, to implementing first-of-their-kind projects, to practical, day-to-day e-commerce legal assistance and contract drafting on a variety of issues. We recognize that the issues and risks of the new electronic ways of doing business affect all types of businesses and cross all legal disciplines. From the banking and insurance industries to traditional manufacturing and distribution businesses, we assist clients with a broad range of issues:
- Electronic transactions
- Cross-border data transfers
- Security (including digital signatures and PKI issues),
- Electronic regulatory compliance issues
- E-tax issues
- Domain name issues
- Copyright, patent, and intellectual property issues
- Information technology issues
- Encryption export regulations
- Online advertising
- Internet sweepstakes and auctions
- Internet in the workplace issues
- Cross-border e-commerce issues
Baker & McKenzie's domestic and global privacy services range from comprehensive international privacy law compliance audits to counseling companies on cross-border issues, including the steps required to self-certify under the US-EU Safe Harbor privacy arrangement. Baker & McKenzie practitioners advise companies on a variety of issues, including:
- How to address the privacy issues associated with rolling out global customer and HR databases
- Implementing intranets
- Undertaking CRM and targeted marketing/profiling initiatives
- Establishing extranets
- Launching sweepstakes and other promotions
In the US, we also help companies navigate the rapidly changing legal and PR landscape, including how to comply with new federal and state laws addressing financial privacy (GLB), medical privacy (HIPAA), and children's privacy (COPPA); avoid the many privacy missteps associated with corporate websites; and plan for and manage privacy crises.
Baker & McKenzie's Media and Entertainment practitioners have in-depth knowledge in all areas of broadcast and media regulation. Our clients include producers and distributors of radio and television programs, book publishers, trade associations, cable and satellite television companies, and music, film and other content providers. We counsel clients on issues ranging from pay-per-view contracts, to digital copyright matters, to the convergence of media and network technologies. |