Corporate clients

IT

The Technology Practice provides comprehensive legal support for IT businesses.

Thanks to the firm’s profound expertise in and understanding of the sector’s specifics, BGP Litigation lawyers can handle all IT company legal questions, acting as an internal legal department.

We help IT businesses find exceptional solutions to their pressing issues on which the possibility of successful development and scaling up depend. BGP lawyers advise on IT matters, including protection of personal data and information, intellectual property, cyber-security, work with Big Data, cryptography, inclusion of software onto the national register, accreditation of IT companies, criminal law and tax risks.

We also support clients under the growing sanctions pressure and the need for import substitution. BGP Litigation acts as an escrow agent and provides unique source code escrow services, allowing rights to foreign source code to be retained in the event of refusal to co-operate against the background of sanctions pressure.

We provide GR support to IT companies, including by using a solution unique on the market – development and introduction of experimental legal frameworks for implementing innovative IT company and digital business projects. This makes it possible temporarily not to apply certain federal rules of law to them.

We can help through:

  • comprehensive legal support for IT businesses
  • advice to IT companies on intellectual property, including on development and transfer of rights to technology
  • advice on use of innovative technologies, including blockchain, AI and more
  • pretrial and judicial legal protection of rights to domain names, software and trade marks
  • representation of IT companies before government bodies, including Rospatent
  • due diligence of target companies and assets, transaction structuring, including with digital assets, taking into account the industry specifics and particular industry requirements, including having transactions agreed by the FAS of Russia
  • development and promotion of bills for development of the IT sector
  • elaboration of experimental legal frameworks for implementing industry projects, including as part of government programmes
  • advice to IT companies on tax issues (including “tax manoeuvring”)
  • resolution of matters involving companies being included in the critical infrastructure and setting up information security systems 
  • legal support for IT companies with the status of “strategic enterprise” or “organisation set up to fulfil the tasks of federal state bodies”
Practices