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They negotiate technology contracts like people who have built the technology.
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Fast, clear and commercial on a complicated cloud migration agreement.
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They found the data rights issue that could have derailed our deal.
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A reliable partner for both vendors and customers.
Overview
Corvane Ryle's Technology Transactions practice advises companies that buy, sell, build and license technology. We negotiate the agreements that sit under digital business: software and software-as-a-service licenses, cloud and hosting contracts, data licenses, outsourcing, systems integration, joint development and commercialization arrangements.
We act for both sides. We represent vendors, platforms and developers in setting terms they can scale, and customers in making sure they get service levels, security commitments, portability and remedies that work in practice. Because our lawyers work across industries, we know what is market in retail, healthcare, financial services and the public sector, and we know where it differs.
Artificial intelligence has changed the contracts. Customers want to know where models were trained, who owns outputs, how their data is used and who bears liability when an AI feature fails. Vendors want to protect their models and limit exposure. We negotiate AI procurement, model licensing, data partnerships and agentic AI arrangements, including the allocation of responsibility for decisions made by software acting on a customer's behalf.
We also support deals. Technology diligence on a target's software, open-source use, data rights and security is often decisive in an acquisition, and our lawyers work with the M&A, IP and Privacy & Cyber teams to find the issues that matter. After closing, we help integrate and separate technology through transition services and carve-out agreements.
Kenji Watanabe-Price, based in San Francisco, leads the practice with Daniel Achterberg, Global Chair of our AI Practice. They work with colleagues in New York, London, Brussels and Singapore for clients that include Kestrel Systems and Quillon Payments.
Key lawyers
Our technology transactions lawyers work hand in hand with the AI practice.
- Daniel Achterberg, Partner; Global Chair, AI Practice, San Francisco
- Kenji Watanabe-Price, Counsel, San Francisco
Areas of focus
Representative experience
- Advised Kestrel Systems on supply and licensing arrangements with hyperscale cloud customers.
- Represented a model developer in negotiating enterprise licensing terms covering training data rights, indemnities and output ownership.
- Advised a NYSE-listed specialty retailer on a multi-year cloud migration and managed services agreement.
- Negotiated a data licensing and clean-room collaboration between a retailer and a media network.
- Advised Quillon Payments on a bank-partnership and processing agreement.
- Counseled an acquirer on technology diligence for a US$900 million software acquisition.
- Advised a healthcare system on procurement of an AI clinical documentation platform.