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Digital Technologies and Privacy

The DS Avocats team dedicated to Digital Technologies and Privacy intervenes alongside companies embarking on projects to modernize their information systems, acquire technologies or digital services, as well as alongside publishers, integrators, and service providers supplying these services.

Contractualization of IT projects

  • Digital transformation of the company (system virtualization)
  • Large IT projects (integration of ERP, CRM, HRIS systems, etc.)
  • Development and integration using agile methods
  • Legal analysis of quality assurance plans, service levels, etc.
  • IT transition services (business transfers)
  • Assistance in drafting public or private tender documents, legal RFPs

Contractualization of digital services

  • Solution and service contracts (P2I) for service providers
  • Drafting and negotiation of cloud computing service acquisition contracts (SaaS, IaaS, PaaS)
  • Supervision of service levels (SLAs, availability, penalties)
  • IT contracts (outsourcing & outsourcing, maintenance, TMA, hosting, managed services, etc.)
  • Software licensing and maintenance contracts
  • Acquisition, enrichment, and licensing of databases
  • Management of audits and reports with software publishers
  • Analysis of open-source and Open Source licenses
  • IT contract training

E-commerce and network law

  • Terms of use, legal notices (websites, mobile applications)
  • General e-commerce sales conditions for all economic sectors, compliance with the LCEN
  • Supervision of marketplaces and intermediary sites
  • Relations between technology suppliers and distributors, referencing, affiliation
  • Terms of use of wifi networks
  • Commercial distribution contracts for software and application services

Management of disputes related to information systems

  • Strategy support and representation in court
  • Litigation of major IT projects (civil procedures)
  • Accompaniment in technological and software judicial expertise

The protection of personal data has become more than ever a compliance issue for company services and value creation. The DS Avocats team dedicated to personal data accompanies its clients in the implementation and maintenance of their compliance with GDPR requirements and e-privacy regulation through a wide range of audit services, DPO assistance, and negotiation of GDPR aspects of contracts.

Protection of personal data and GDPR compliance

  • Analysis of processing and assistance in deploying GDPR compliance for companies
  • Qualification of the company's files, analysis of the legal exploitability of files
  • Drafting of compliance deliverables (information notices, privacy and cookie management policies, data breach management procedures, rights exercise request management procedures, etc.)
  • Drafting and negotiation of personal data protection agreements (DPA)
  • Supervision of international transfers of personal data
  • Legal aspects of data protection impact assessments (AIPD or PIA)
  • DPO assistance (subscriptions)
  • Legal assistance to the company during CNIL controls
  • Management of electronic communications data (e-privacy compliance)
  • Advice to direct marketing clients and providers (CRM solution publishers, digital advertising, etc.)
  • GDPR training

The French and European regulatory environment is evolving, with new texts conditioning business activities and creating development opportunities. The DS Avocats team dedicated to technologies assists its clients in analyzing the implications of these new regulations.

Innovation law

  • Technological consortium agreements, computer R&D agreements
  • Legal framework for artificial intelligence
  • Connected objects and implementation of the Data Act
  • Deployment of innovative solutions (IoT)

Cybersecurity law

  • Legal assistance in deploying cybersecurity (NIS2)
  • Legal analysis of security annexes
  • Drafting of IT charters
  • Data breach notifications
  • Cybersecurity law training
Offices
Thomas Beaugrand

Counsel

Paris
Catherine Verneret

Partner

Paris
Chen Xiaoyun

Lawyer

Beijing
Isabelle Doyon

Lawyer

Shanghai
Sylvie Savoie

Partner

Beijing
Zhang Beibei

Lawyer

Thierry Schwenk

Partner

Stuttgart
Vanessa Dobler

Lawyer

Stuttgart
Götz Gaiser

Partner

Pol Fontquerni Ayensa

Lawyer

Barcelona
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