Our Technology and E-Commerce Team is well versed in the business and legal issues affecting companies engaged in technology transactions and electronic commerce. These include dealing with the issues arising in the context of doing business over the Internet, electronic payments transactions, electronic payment networks and payment card processing and systems. In particular, our lawyers have experience with:
- Purchases and sales of portfolios of credit card processing contracts and related assets.
- Strategic relationships involving parties engaged in the payment card industry.
- Analysis of issues related to the introduction of new types of payment products.
- Implementation of mobile commerce products and services, including establishing relationships among various application and infrastructure partners necessary to implement m-commerce products and services and among various commercial customers of m-commerce products and services.
- Analysis of issues and implementation of solutions related to stored value cards, including structuring of arrangements to address “breakage.”
- Sophisticated technology and intellectual property licensing arrangements related to e-commerce businesses.
- Web hosting and application development contracts specific to products and services offered over the Internet.
- Substantial familiarity with the patent and intellectual property landscape related to payment cards, electronic payments and related financial services products.
- Advising on the implication of banking and financial services laws and regulation to bank and non-bank financial services companies.
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