The firm has advised service providers and customers on hundreds of outsourcing projects, from traditional IT outsourcing deals (e.g. for data centres, storage, support or development services) through to broader business process outsourcing (BPO) contracts for functions like HR, payroll, and finance and administration, often with an offshore or international dimension.

Codified Legal advises on the full range of IT and outsourcing contracts, from simple software licences through to major IT systems procurements. The firm is at the forefront of innovations in the commercial IT sector, such as the move to Software as a Service contracts, cloud computing and contracts for the development of mobile apps.

Privacy and data protection issues are increasingly high on the corporate agenda, and the firm has extensive experience of helping companies negotiate the pitfalls of data protection law, both in the context of outsourcing and offshoring negotiations, and more generally in their day-to-day operations.

The firm helps a range of companies with the legal issues associated with their e-commerce and m-commerce activities, from household names looking to augment traditional business with online activities to innovative pure-play e-commerce start-ups. It has particular expertise in mobile app develoment, online terms and conditions, website compliance and data protection issues.

Codified Legal advises IT businesses on company law matters and corporate transactions, including company formations, general company law compliance and corporate governance, mergers and acquisitions, management buy-outs and buy-ins, restructuring, joint ventures and shareholders’ agreements.

Codified Legal provides employment law and HR advice and support to businesses of all sizes, from blue-chip FTSE and Fortune 500 companies to start-ups and owner-managed businesses. We advise on all aspects of employment law, covering everything from routine day-to-day issues to strategic advice on benefits and compensation, recruitment and engagement, and workplace policies and procedures. We can also help with the challenging areas of discipline and dispute resolution, redundancy, and termination of employment; and with the employment aspects of M&A, business transfers, operational reorganisations and outsourcing. Our aim is to help clients make informed decisions on their staffing issues, and enable them both to meet their commercial priorities and to comply with increasingly complex employment law rules.

For cost information about this kind of work (particularly advice and representation to employers in relation to defending claims before the Employment Tribunal brought by an employee for unfair dismissal or wrongful dismissal), please click here.

We offer an innovative "Tech Hub" service aimed specifically at start-ups and early-stage businesses, to provide support on contractual, corporate and HR matters. For more details about the Codified Tech Hub, click here.

We also have access to an online contracting platform that enables clients to create and manage commercial contracts.  This aims to get deals done more quickly, transparently, and in a traceable manner.  For more information click here.