For IT Companies

How we work

We provide international-standard legal work at Central European fee levels—delivered quickly and flexibly from Budapest.

The law firm combines the fields of expertise listed below to give IT companies (typically startups, scale-ups, and other small to mid-sized businesses) holistic IT/IP legal support as they step into international markets.

Our approach covers the entire process: preparation → protection & commercialization → growth.

The main goal is to lay the legal foundations for international presence—EU compliance, workable contracts, and deal mechanics that hold up across borders—so you can negotiate with your partners with confidence.

Whether your innovation is purely digital or involves hardware components, we structure agreements that address the complete product ecosystem from software licensing to manufacturing partnerships—and everything in between.

If the application of local law is required or we consider it relevant, we engage local counsel to ensure full compliance.

What we do...

International Readiness

We build the legal foundation that lets you expand globally with confidence—creating contract systems and processes that work across multiple jurisdictions without reinventing the wheel each time.

Standardized Contracts

We create easy-to-adapt model agreements with consistent terms and risk allocations that translate across different legal systems. When you're signing with a publisher in Germany, a distributor in China, and a platform in the US, you're not starting from scratch each time—you're working from proven structures that adapt to local requirements.

Streamlined Cross-Border Risk Management

We provide practical guidance on risk allocation and management that works across legal systems. We help you structure financial conditions, warranties, indemnifications, and limitation of liability clauses that protect your interests while remaining enforceable across jurisdictions—always aligned with mandatory local requirements. Your international deals maintain coherent risk protection without getting bogged down in local legal variations, helping you negotiate confidently in unfamiliar territory.

Flexible Legal Infrastructure

Although the legal framework grows with your business, whether you're expanding to three countries or thirty, the foundation stays steady while adapting to local needs.

Bottom line: You can pursue international opportunities without building new legal infrastructure for each market—giving you the confidence to scale globally while maintaining legal predictability.

Commercialization

We help software, gaming, and virtual reality companies turn their technical innovations into solid business deals. Whether you're developing games or industrial software, building software platforms, or creating immersive experiences, we translate your technology into clear, enforceable agreements that protect your interests and drive revenue.

Licensing & Distribution

We structure licensing and distribution deals for both using others' technology and monetizing your own IP, ensuring you get fair terms and proper protection. From straightforward IP licenses to complex multi-territory publishing arrangements, we build deal structures that scale with your ambitions.

Publishing & Revenue Share Agreements

From indie game deals to major publishing contracts, we support negotiations around advance payments and minimum guarantees, revenue sharing structures, development milestones, and delivery requirements that work for your business model.

Platform Agreements

We negotiate and manage legally binding contracts with digital storefronts (e.g., Apple App Store, Google Play). These contracts set the rules for submission and compliance, pricing and monetization, marketing support, DLC and related content management, update and maintenance obligations, and core legal/financial terms (IP, revenue share, taxes).

VR/AR & Location-Based Entertainment

For VR/AR companies and LBE (location-based entertainment) venues, we structure content licensing, lease of premises, service level agreements, installation logistics, brand/asset usage rights, staff training, and territorial exclusivity.

Hardware

For products involving hardware components, we manage manufacturing partnerships, hardware licensing agreements, distribution logistics, and product liability considerations, always in line with the relevant content and software commercialization terms.

Bottom Line: We make sure your innovative technology translates into practical, protected business relationships—so you can focus on creating while we handle legal matters.

IP Ownership, Management & Enforcement

We secure your intellectual property from creation to market, ensuring you own what you build and can protect it from competitors. Our comprehensive approach covers every step of the IP lifecycle.

Ownership & Creation Rights

We establish clear IP ownership through employee and contractor agreements, work-for-hire contracts, and freelancer arrangements. This includes securing moral rights waivers and license-back provisions when needed, plus asset delivery schedules that define exactly what you own.

Brand Protection & Strategy

We create legal guidelines that control how your brand can be used by others. This includes rules for using your logo, colors, fonts, and visual identity. For example, if you license your game characters for merchandise, we ensure the manufacturer can't change your character designs or use them in ways that damage your brand.

Enforcement & Dispute Resolution

When your IP is infringed, we move quickly and strategically: issuing tailored cease-and-desist letters, pursuing takedown requests on digital platforms, and negotiating settlements. Our priority is a legally robust, proportionate, and cost-effective outcome—while preserving leverage for litigation if needed.

Patent and Privacy Specialists

For the specific matters of patent prosecution and GDPR compliance, we coordinate with trusted specialists to ensure you get expert guidance without the hassle of managing multiple relationships.

Bottom Line: We make sure you truly own, control, and can defend your creative work and innovations.

EU Digital Compliance

We embed EU digital rules directly into your terms and user experience, so you can operate confidently across European markets.

Consumer Protection Integration

We embed consumer rights requirements into your sales flow—ensuring customers get proper pre-purchase information, clear refund processes, and conformity guarantees for digital products. This covers everything from game downloads to software subscriptions.

Fair Trading & Pricing Rules

We help to structure your marketing and pricing terms to comply with the latest EU rules on price announcements, discount claims, and review authenticity, so your promotions stay compliant while remaining effective.

Platform & Marketplace Requirements

For businesses operating marketplaces or platforms, we ensure your terms are transparent, your ranking systems are explained to users, and you have proper dispute resolution procedures that meet EU standards. For platforms, marketplaces, and hosting services, we ensure compliance with Digital Services Act requirements.

Cross-Border & Intermediary Rules

We help you navigate geo-blocking restrictions and digital service provider obligations, ensuring you can serve customers without discriminatory practices or compliance gaps.

Cross-Border Operations

We sort the basics for EU work: pick governing law and courts, keep your provider details consistent across countries, and localize your B2B terms. On tax, we set up EU VAT one-stop operating models (OSS/IOSS), invoicing and evidence rules, and clear contract clauses for VAT split, withholding, and gross-up—looping in tax advisers where needed.

Bottom Line: Your business operates smoothly across the EU while meeting all digital regulations—without sacrificing user experience.

Growth Transactions

We align your legal structure with your business reality, ensuring funding rounds and exit go smoothly while protecting your interests at every stage of growth.

Startup Foundation & Funding

We record the founders' agreement, the transfer of intellectual property (code, brand, content) to the company, and establish the early financing instruments: employee stock option plans and convertible note deals that set your company up for growth. This includes also SAFE agreements and subscription deals that work for both you and investors.

Investor Protection

We negotiate and draft shareholder agreements that balance investor protections with operational flexibility—clear information rights, consent/veto on reserved matters, and protective provisions that safeguard value without freezing decision-making.

M&A & Exit Transactions

When it's time to sell, we handle purchase agreements, disclosure processes, representations and warranties, and indemnity structures. We also manage earn-out provisions, transition service agreements, and non-compete arrangements, in line with your exit objectives.

IP & Tech Readiness

We make your intellectual property and technology legally fit for a deal: clear ownership, transferable licenses, third-party and open-source rights resolved, and buyer-ready disclosures. Where needed, we set up source-code escrow and obtain provider approvals and transfer contracts for accounts and services.

Bottom Line: Whatever the stage—funding or exit—we build terms that safeguard you and deliver on your objectives.

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