Software agreements decide how your technology gets built, licensed, supported, and sold, and they have to handle technical, commercial, and legal questions at once. We represent both technology providers and customers across the full range of these deals, from enterprise licenses to custom development to channel arrangements. Our attorneys wrote software before they practiced law, so we understand what a spec, an API, or a copyleft license actually commits you to.
Enterprise Licensing
Enterprise licenses turn on scope and metrics: whether you license by user, device, processor, or something else, and how growth is handled. We work through perpetual, subscription, and hybrid pricing, plus deployment rights for on-premises, private cloud, or vendor-hosted use. We also pin down the technical terms that derail deployments when ignored, including delivery, acceptance testing, integration with your existing systems, and the support that keeps the software running.
Custom Development
Custom builds live or die on scope and ownership. We define the work through specifications, statements of work, and change-order procedures, and we settle who owns the resulting code, how pre-existing background technology is licensed so it survives the engagement, and how completed work is accepted before payment milestones release. Warranty and liability terms then allocate the risk of the bugs and defects that every real project produces.
Maintenance And Distribution
Software needs ongoing care, so maintenance and support agreements set service levels for response and resolution, define what is covered, and spell out update and upgrade rights with clear escalation for critical issues. On the channel side, we structure reseller, distributor, value-added, and referral arrangements that fix scope, margins, sales and marketing duties, certification, customer handoff, and performance and termination rights, so you expand reach without losing control of how your product is represented.
Open Source, Escrow, And Cross-Border Deals
Almost every codebase pulls in open source, so we help you understand permissive versus copyleft obligations, run audits, build compliance programs, and clean up issues that surface in deals or disputes. We structure source code escrow that gives customers real continuity protection while staying acceptable to vendors. And for cross-border transactions we address governing law, dispute resolution, export controls, data localization, and local registration so the deal works wherever it operates.