A&L Goodbody Northern Ireland LLP

The commercial and technology team at A&L Goodbody Northern Ireland LLP is well-equipped to handle technology-related litigations which are high value, sensitive, and cross jurisdictional in nature. The team is jointly led by Brendan Fox and Mark Thompson. Fox heads the litigation services, while Thompson leads the non-contentious side, where he assists clients in drafting IT technical agreements, including end user licence agreements for both the UK and EEA markets. Also on the contentious side, Ciaran O’Shiel is well versed in advising on defamation, privacy, and data protection matters. Senior associate Keith Dunn often provides support in drafting and negotiating contracts.

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Key clients

Axial Medical Printing Limited t/a Axial3D
MJM Marine
CatalystPay Limited
Bedford Consultancy Services Limited
Irish Football Association
Agri-Food and Biosciences Institute
Kelsius Ltd
ABP Food Group
HALO Technologies Europe Limited
Irish Rugby Football Union – Ulster Branch ('Ulster Rugby')

Work highlights

Assisted Axial3D to negotiate several high-value technical IT agreements.
Instructed by the MJM Marine group to negotiate the terms of a three-year full-service IT outsourcing agreement with Nostra Technologies Limited.
Instructed by CatalystPay’s UK and EU entities to draft end user licence agreements (one of the UK market and one for the EEA market) relating to the provision, by CatalystPay, of payment services to business customers in the UK and EEA via an online payment platform that would be hosted through CatalystPay’s website.