In recent years we have seen increasingly accelerated growth of various enterprises in the fields of technology, software, the Internet, biotechnology, etc. The legal arena in which high-tech start-ups find themselves requires special preparation and deployment, both in those start-ups' financial situation (which require unconventional remuneration methods such as, for example, option plans for employees) as well as the fact that these companies foresee future capital investment sale transaction or public offering (Exit) that require corporate and contractual deployment appropriate to this forecast.
The office accompanies various companies, including high-tech companies at various stages of their activity, from the seed phase, drafting of founders agreements and establishment of companies, raising of capital from investors, drafting and negotiating employment agreements, shareholder agreements, NDA and confidentiality agreements, protection of intellectual property, joint venture agreements, participation in tenders, ongoing legal advice to companies, including labor law, and in this framework handling corporate governance issues and representation in legal instances.
As a communications medium, the Internet raises many legal issues. Generally speaking, the Internet is another means of communication like the telephone, mail or daily newspaper, thus subject to communications laws as they have developed over the years. However, as a virtual medium it is a commercial tool that is developing and growing constantly, and various issues concerning it are founded on contract law, property law, intellectual property, information security laws, privacy protection law, etc. The development of the Internet medium even confronts with new legal situations, e.g. the question of judicial authority for an action performed on the Internet, the importance of the country from which the action was performed, Internet identity as expressed in social networking and the degree of the authorities' responsibility toward actions performed on the virtual medium.
KBF provides legal services to companies and to individuals in all fields of Internet law, setting up websites, drafting of the site's term of use, privacy policy, advising on information security and intellectual property issues, as well as regular consultation and representation in various legal instances.