I am pleased to announce that a special talk is taking place this Thursday in Carriganore at 5:30 pm in the board room.
The speaker has a wealth of legal experience from an IT perspective.
About the Speaker: Síofra Flood
Síofra has over 12 years experience with Irish software companies, formerly holding the role of Corporate Counsel at Havok, and EMEA Legal Counsel at IONA Technologies. In her current consultancy capacity, she works with companies such as Clavis, Kore, Decawave, InishTech, Headway, CloudSplit and VigiTrust; she also worked as in-house consultant for Valista during its sale to Aepona in 2009. During her career, she has been involved in three tech-company exits and numerous VC funding transactions. Síofra has a wealth of experience in the areas of software licenses, support and professional services agreements, partner & reseller agreements, employment agreements, share option schemes, due diligence assistance and commercial legal advice.
Síofra is going to give a general talk about legal matters to do with IT and software start-up companies in particular.
This will include but not limited to the following:
• Company formation
• Consulting Agreements
• Software Licensing
• Support and Maintenance Agreements
• Employment Agreements
• Intellectual Property
Síofras presentation will be followed by a questions and answers session from the attendees.
Síofra comes highly reccomended and is highly regarded across the irish software industry, I would recommend coming along and making contact as she undoubetly has first hand experience with many of the issues that you face day-to-day in the software business.
Well the talk went down a treat; lots of very interesting things came up regarding:
ReplyDeleteEmployment Contracts
Contractor Contracts
Copyright
Licensing
Use of Opensource in commercial products
All I can say is if you are building a product with a view to being acquired, then you have to have water tight contracts which cover transfer of copyright / IP with each and every person who works on your code base.
The due dillegence people will certainly want to know if there are any potential skeletons in the closet before parting with any serious cash;
If you want to be really ontop of things you should keep an accurate developmet diary, which covers what each developer worked on, what hours they put in, and the contracts you have with each developer.