Long before the term “cloud computing” started to climb the Gartner hype-cycle, Latham has been helping clients navigate the capacity on-demand technology sector (also known as application services, infrastructure/platform/software-as-a-service, or utility computing). Latham lawyers help clients determine whether and how to best implement cloud-based IT strategies, considering and weighing up the often conflicting legal, regulatory, commercial, operational, and technical issues at play.
Latham helps clients negotiate a cloud computing contract that meets their requirements and manages risk, whether the cloud solution is private, public, or hybrid. The firm draws on an effective combination of industry knowledge, technical competence, legal and regulatory expertise, and commercial, pragmatic thinking to efficiently deliver practical solutions to complex cloud transactions. Latham has experience negotiating against all of the main vendors in the cloud market to help clients secure an industry-leading contract.
Identifying and complying with the applicable regulations is onerous and often requires judgment calls to be made. We can help with that. As regulatory frameworks differ in key jurisdictions, Latham regularly identifies and removes or navigates the barriers to adoption across a client’s geographic markets, to ensure compliance with cybersecurity, data privacy, data sovereignty, government monitoring, and industry-specific regulations.
Latham tailors the firm's support to clients' needs and budget, while ensuring clients always have the benefit of Latham's market experience and industry best practice. Latham lawyers align themselves with the client's business, and function as an extension of the client's in-house legal team to deliver practical solutions to complex transactions, efficiently.