Industry focus: IT and internet

Osborne Clarke

At Osborne Clarke, the group guides clients through the regulatory, IP, and data privacy elements of the IT and internet space. The team's scope of work also extends to competition law considerations, contractual liabilities, personal data protection, and AI compliance. Practice co-head Claire Bouchenard is well versed in the digital economy and handles digital regulation, licensing issues, and tech litigation. Fellow co-head Xavier Pican assists with digital transformation initiatives, in addition to negotiating tech projects involving IoT and blockchain. Grégoire Dumas drafts and negotiates tech and software agreements, while Laurène Zaggia focuses on tech litigation and GDPR compliance.

Legal 500 Editorial commentary

Testimonials

Collated independently by Legal 500 research team.

‘Responsive and friendly team, of very good quality, both sharp on complex subjects, particularly on regulations, and pragmatic on the solutions to be implemented, in particular Claire Bouchenard and Grégoire Dumas.'
‘Strengths: Availability, pragmatism, tenacity, diversity of skills in the health technology and data sector.'
‘After some searching for legal advisors, this is the only French law firm we use for France-related legal issues.'
‘The IT teams at Osborne are very dynamic. Grégoire Dumas, in particular, has a perfect command of how to adapt to a sustained and demanding work pace.'
‘Grégoire Dumas - not only are his technical and professional skills very high, but his personal qualities are also a major asset. Grégoire is approachable and always demonstrates great availability and flexibility in his work.'

Key clients

Cloudflare
Duck Creek
The Boston Consulting Group
Integral Ad science
NordVPN
OpenText
Richemont
XPLOR

Work highlights

Assistance to Cloudflare to navigate into the French market and in negotiating SaaS contracts with strategic customers. Advice on compliance with future DORA regulations on the resilience of IT systems in the financial sector.
Assistance to Boston Group Consulting to negotiate a variety of strategic deals with customers and with partners, including projects involving development of bespoke software solutions for the client or leveraging existing or newly developed IA technologies. Guidance on key issues when dealing with AI technologies with respect to the new EU AI Act.
Assisting a French key pharmaceutical company with a secondment, including drafting, reviewing and negotiating all IT contracts for SaaS, software licences, development AI, hosting, HDS hosting and integration agreements and supporting the company in digital projects.