Lafourcade Avocats assists its clients with economic law in all business sectors, as part of negotiations with commercial partners or litigation before judicial and/or administrative authorities, specifically:

- setting up and monitoring the functioning of distribution networks (franchises and exclusive or selective distribution), whether preparing and negotiating agreements or handling any resulting disputes (e.g. resale outside of the network, etc.);

- in disputes over business practice and unfair competition, in particular non-competition, disruption of the business of a competitor (direct marketing, employee poaching, etc.), disparagement and parasitic competition;

- in the field of commercial and pricing practices, aiding retailers and suppliers with billing, resale at a loss, general terms and conditions, commercial cooperation, abuse of economic power and termination of commercial relations;

- cartels and abuse of dominant position;

- sales promotions and advertising.

MOREOVER, OUR LAWYERS HAVE EXPERTISE IN HANDLING A BROAD RANGE OF BUSINESS CONTRACTS, BUSINESS TRANSACTIONS AND BUSINESS PLANNING MATTERS FOR A VARIETY OF BUSINESSES, RANGING FROM ONE-PERSON START-UPS TO PUBLICLY TRADED COMPANIES.

We notably have advised internet companies, software development companies, high tech businesses, IT & other service businesses,  leasing entities, financial service organizations, franchises, and manufacturing  companies and a broad range of brick & mortar business.  Our lawyers’ areas of business contracts and business transactional expertise include:

Stock redemption plans and executive exit strategies;

Licensing Agreements;

Distributor Agreements and the structuring of distribution systems;

Real property purchase and leasing agreements & negotiations;

Entity counseling and formation, including: partnerships, corporations,

and limited liability companies;

Buy-Sell agreements and other owner protection agreements;

Reorganizing capital structures, including creation of multiple classes of stock & membership interests, warrants and options and convertible debt instruments;

Mergers, reorganizations and acquisitions;

Private placements;

Asset and stock sales;

Venture capital and angel financing;

Debt financing;

BROAD RANGE OF LEGAL SERVICES TO OUR TECHNOLOGY CLIENTS. SUCH SERVICES INCLUDE ASSISTING CLIENTS DEALING WITH THE FOLLOWING ISSUES:

Hardware

Development agreements;

Distribution agreements;

Value-added reseller agreements;

Equipment loan agreements;

Financing agreements;

Semiconductor technology licensing agreements; and

Volume purchase agreements

Software

Inbound and outbound licenses;

Click wrap agreements;

Shrink wrap agreements;

Development agreements;

Strategic Partnership agreements;

Distributor agreements;

Software escrow agreements

Internet

Development agreements;

Hosting agreements;

Co-branding agreements;

Cross-linking agreements;

Advertising agreements;

Web content licensing agreements;

Online store fulfillment agreements;

Co-location agreements;

Roaming agreements; and

Strategic partner agreements

Software licensing

source code licenses

object code licenses

software beta test site

software site licenses

right-to-use licenses

bundling arrangements

end-user licenses

click-through licenses

joint venture strategic licenses

OEM licensing

university licensing

prototype development licensing

joint development licensing

software development and licensing

STRUCTURING AGREEMENTS AND ARRANGEMENTS FOR DEVELOPING INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY:

R&D for experimental technology

prototype development

software development

semiconductor technology

joint developments

joint venture technology transfers

collaborative research arrangements

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY STRATEGIC PLANNING SERVICES:

Identifying the client's intellectual property;

Advising the client on the best means of protecting their intellectual property;

Assisting the client in developing a plan for licensing or selling their intellectual property; and

Working closely with patent counsel for patenting inventions.