Our technology transactions and strategic sourcing team has the legal knowledge, market experience and local/global capability to deliver exceptional legal services to clients across the African continent.
We help clients to develop, protect, exploit and use intellectual property and tech-related assets at every stage of their growth in addition to sourcing strategic assets and services to support their operations.
Organizations ranging from emerging companies to global corporations look to our lawyers for demonstrable experience and technical know-how across industries, founded on a track record in advising on complex transactions, multi-party high-value project work and the world’s most complex sourcing projects − frequently across multiple jurisdictions.
Local presence, global reach: we work in 20 African countries, providing an unrivalled local presence and insights backed by one of the world’s biggest business law firms. Our global Africa team comprises more than 200 lawyers in Johannesburg, Casablanca, London, New York, Paris, Dubai, Perth, Hong Kong and Beijing.
Legal directories recognize us as one of the preeminent practices in this field, able to offer genuine global reach: we can provide a seamless cross-border experience for clients, whatever the requirement. Our proprietary methodology, Ascendant, and unique software tools set us apart and enable us to deliver services cost-efficiently in any location.
- Our Global Sourcing Portal is a gateway for private and public sector organizations involved in strategic sourcing, including outsourcing.
- The Sourcing Contract Dashboard is an interactive web-based contract assessment and reporting tool that answers the question: “How good is this outsourcing contract compared to the market?”
- Our interactive Requirements Builder streamlines the essential requirements capture process at the start of outsourcing projects.
Key capabilities include:
- cloud computing
- e-Commerce
- IP development
- licensing
- open source
- outsourcing
- procurement
- strategic alliances and joint ventures
- technology transactions
- telecommunications
Please contact us to discuss how we can help you to achieve your objectives.