She provides a commercially-focused service to clients in contentious and non-contentious matters and has particular expertise in advising customers and suppliers on IT transactional matters including the acquisition of IT systems, software licensing, managed services and outsourcing agreements. Jane also has strong corporate knowledge through her considerable experience in and advising on intellectual property and data protection aspects of corporate sales and acquisitions and joint ventures, including post-transaction IP and IT contracts for spinouts. Jane’s recent work involved advising clients on largescale technology projects. She works on complex, high-value commercial transactions, and advises blue-chip clients across a wide range of sectors on contract matters that go to the very core of their businesses. Jane has published articles on her specialist areas in the Irish media and is the co-author of the Ireland chapter in the ICLG 2019 and 2020 editions of Trade Mark Laws and Regulations. Jane is also a regular speaker at various technology seminars, most recently in respect of the Platform-to-Business Regulation.

Jane has significant experience of providing strategic, commercial advice to national and multinational businesses in retail, technology, and pharma sectors on brand protection and exploitation, and on the enforcement side, on oppositions, infringement and cancellation of intellectual property rights. She frequently represents applicants and opponents in trade mark oppositions and cancellations before the Irish and EU Intellectual Property Offices, and has advised on domain name disputes before the World Intellectual Property Organization. In contract matters, Jane has expertise in drafting and negotiating complex intellectual property licensing arrangements, R&D collaboration agreements between industry and research bodies, and international franchise agreements. Jane works closely with the firm’s other departments to provide our clients with full-service advice about their intellectual property.

Jane advises on all aspects of privacy, technology and e-commerce law, including GDPR compliance projects, security risk management by working with clients to prepare incident response reports and address queries from the Data Protection Commission, data subject access requests and cross-border transfers of personal data. As part of the firm’s solutions-focused approach, her work also involves collaborating with other firm departments to address data protection and technology law queries that arise in other practice areas. Jane’s experience includes negotiation and advising on a wide range of technology and outsourcing agreements, including compliance with e-commerce and consumer protection legislation.  

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