MNKS is proud of its comprehensive expertise in the field of Information Technology law, which is of central importance to our clients in all sectors, such as diverse IT and Internet service providers, Telecommunication operators, financial institutions, and many others. Practitioners in these groups are familiar with the particular requirements of businesses in the IT sector and the challenges they face.

Contractual assistance

IT and communication systems, specifically developed hardware and software and their subsequent maintenance are an example of some of the countless challenges that businesses face. For us, each of these challenges is unique and thus we use our strong experience to create tailor-made agreements.

Protection and licensing

Developing or obtaining reliable IT products and proprietary software involve important investments. Our expertise in Intellectual Property notably aims at ensuring that the interests of our clients are protected as much as possible, by fixing, among other things, proper ownership of or access to source codes and drawing adequate licensing solutions.

Outsourcing

We have a well-built up experience of advising companies in implementing outsourcing projects as well as service providers offering such services. With a sound understanding of the technical aspects, we advise on technology and employee transfers, Data Protection, SLAs, IP and related regulatory matters (including the setting up of Support PFS). In the Luxembourg financial sector context, outsourcing involves strict organizational rules. The financial sector regulator imposes high confidentiality and security-related requirements, which we are very familiar to us.

Security

Security is the underlying mechanism to ensure confidentiality, a fundamental requirement of any IT system in today's world. Therefore, we have developed expertise in advising our clients on the legal aspects of various security issues: identity management, PKI infrastructures and certification practice statements, computer forensics, and intrusion.

Regulatory

Players in the IT sector increasingly face new regulatory challenges, such as Data Protection and environmental rules. We help them to find pragmatic solutions to comply with these requirements.