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A strategic partner to support
your innovative and digital projects

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We are a law firm dedicated to the digital and tech world, providing advices and assistance in all areas of expertise of law, to support your innovative and digital projects:
IA & Deep learning blockchain cloud computing IoT Big Data cookiesoutsourcing Computing licensingopen sourceMobile applicationse-paymentCybersecurity

Whether these innovative projects are at the heart of your business model or a way to support your growth, our teams of experts work alongside you to structure, develop and secure your innovative projects and your business model, enhance the value of your content and your intangible assets, estimate and evaluate your risks, and resolve your conflicts and crisis situations.

UN PARTENAIRE JURIDIQUE ET STRATEGIQUE POUR ACCOMPAGNER VOS PROJETS INNOVANTS ET DIGITAUX

Nous sommes un Cabinet d’avocats spécialiste du monde du digital et de la tech, intervenant dans l’ensemble des domaines d ’expertises du droit, pour accompagner vos projets innovants et digitaux : IA & Deep learning

Que ces projets innovants soient au cœur de votre business model ou un moyen d’accompagner votre croissance, nos équipes d’experts interviennent à vos côtés pour structurer, développer et sécuriser vos projets innovants et votre modèle économique, valoriser vos contenus et vos actifs immatériels, évaluer et maîtriser vos risques, résoudre vos conflits et situations de crise.

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Whether innovation is at the heart of your business model or a way to support your growth, we provide support, both in terms of advice and litigation, if necessary with the help of technical experts, to secure your projects, support the transformation of the internal processes they imply, enhance the value of your assets and manage all the difficulties that you may encounter during their deployment.

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Whether innovation is at the heart of your business model or a way to support your growth, we provide support, both in terms of advice and litigation, if necessary with the help of technical experts, to secure your projects, support the transformation of the internal processes they imply, enhance the value of your assets and manage all the difficulties that you may encounter during their deployment.

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Data Protection

  • Complex data-centric projects
  • DPIA and CNIL administrative formalities
  • Personal data breaches
  • Data processing agreements
  • GDPR compliance programs
  • GDPR compliance audits
  • Transfer of data outside the EU
  • Data subject rights
  • CNIL investigation
  • Sanction proceedings implemented by CNIL

Tech & Telecom

  • Digitization and dematerialization projects (electronic signature, e-payment etc.);
  • Protection and contractual framework of high value-added technological creations (AI & deep learning, Blockchain, IoT etc.)
  • Structuring, contractualization and negotiation of complex IT projects
  • SStructuring of software distribution networks
  • Co-development, R&D projects and know-how transfer
  • Software, auditing and monitoring of licenses, open source
  • Databases
  • Contractual governance, exit strategy and litigation management
  • IT litigation
  • Information System and network security, cybersecurity
  • ANSSI formalities (notifications, authorization requests, RGS and eIDAS certifications, etc.).

Digital, Internet & e-commerce

  • Cookies, advertising, direct marketing and webmarketing
  • Audits of websites and mobile applications
  • Networks and responsibility of technical intermediaries
  • Intermediation platforms and collaborative platforms
  • E-commerce and consumer law (T&C, ToU, Privacy Policy, etc.)
  • E-reputation, image rights and media
Are you launching a new project or an innovative tool? Make law and compliance a competitive advantage by building legal documentation adapted to your business model or needs
We support you by:
  • Analyzing the applicable regulatory framework and the feasibility of your project: feasibility assesment, drafting of Data Protection Impact Assessments (DPIA), support of the development of your business model on the legal aspects;
  • Structuring the contractual documentation: General Terms of Services, General Terms of Sales, SaaS Agreement, PaaS Agreement, IaaS Agreement, Integration or Outsourcing Agreement, Maintenance Agreement, TMA, Hosting Agreement, Co-development Agreement, R&D Agreement, Data protection policy, Data processing agreement, etc.
Are you negotiating contractual terms with your clients, partners or service providers?Get strategic guidance and advice in contract negotiations, in line with industry practices
We assist you by:
  • Defining upstream and throughout the discussions the best strategy taking into account your concerns and risks;
  • Participating in the negotiation sessions, together - if necessary, with your legal, project, CTO and CISO and/or Purchasing teams - to defend your interests, arbitrate the various issues, manage the blocking points, and propose compromise solutions;
  • Adapting the contractual documentation until it is executed.
Are you facing a deadlock with your co-contractor on an IT or digital project? Resolve this blocking situation efficiently
We assist you by:
  • Auditing the situation (analysis of contractual terms) and the different existing solutions;
  • Defining the best strategy taking into account your concerns and risks;
  • Drafting the appropriate documentation: formal notice, negotiation of settlement agreements, support in the context of litigation before the courts, administrative or arbitration bodies.
Do you need advice on the management of your computer equipment or in the context of a software license audit? Evaluate your different options
We support you by:
  • Auditing the situation (existing contractual terms)
  • Advising your IT and legal teams on the management of their software solutions (use of licenses, support in the context of an acquisition audit or an audit of their IT assets by a software provider, etc.)
  • Participating in negotiations with your service provider or your client.
Do you want to get advice and be assisted on the protection of your technological creations?
We assist you by:
  • Analyzing your creations, whether they are internally developed, co-developed or acquired, to identify the best protection to consider with respect to intellectual property rights;
  • Carrying out all the steps to ensure the protection of your intangible assets.
Are you launching or redesigning a website, an e-commerce site, an intermediation or collaborative platform, a mobile application?Make sure it complies with legal requirements
We assist you by:
  • Drafting, analyzing or negotiating agreements with your service providers (developers, designers, communication agencies) to ensure that the services are provided on time and that your company holds all the intellectual property rights to the deliverables;
  • Auditing the current practices of your website or application (user path, sales path) and the documentation contained therein and proposing the necessary corrective actions;
  • Drafting the Legal Notice, Terms and Conditions, Terms of Use, Terms of Services, Privacy Notice, Q&A;
  • Drafting the notices of your Cookies banner as well as the Cookies Policy.
You do not have sufficient resources internally, you do not have a legal department, lawyers or a DPO Take advantage of a tailor-made support by outsourcing your legal department to ALGO
We offer you to:
  • Mapping your needs to offer you customized support that meets your real needs (definition of the period, identification of objectives)
  • Set up a dedicated team to support you, remotely (legal hotline) or on site, acting as an outsourced Legal Department;
  • Identify and plan in advance the scope covered by this outsourcing service and the budget to be allocated to it.
Do you want to make sure your company or project is compliant with the GDPR?
We support you by:
  • Performing an audit of existing practices and conducting a gap analysis between these practices and the GDPR obligations, together with a realistic and pragmatic action plan;
  • Setting up a GDPR compliance program consisting of drafting the necessary documentation and procedures and processes;
  • Training your various teams in GDPR best practices.
You are facing a personal data breach and would like to resolve the various aspects within the required timeframe?
We support you by:
  • Participating in internal crisis meetings to understand the circumstances and actions to be implemented ;
  • Determining if notifications are required: CNIL or other supervisory authorities ; to affected individuals;
  • Drafting the required notifications;
  • Helping you determine an action plan of corrective measures necessary to prevent such an incident from happening again.
Are you launching a marketing campaign? Make sure it complies with legal requirements
We assist you in:
  • Determining the applicable regulatory framework;
  • Offering you concrete and pragmatic solutions to launch the project in compliance.
You are subject to an on-site investigation, a formal notice or a sanction procedure from the CNIL? Evaluate your different options
We accompany you by:
  • Participating in the on-site investigation or analyzing the online inspection reports;
  • Auditing the situation (breaches identified by the CNIL and company practices) and determining a corrective action plan;
  • Drafting documents in response to the CNIL's formal notice or to the report proposing a sanction drafted by the designated reporter.

Our DNA

In a constantly changing world, where our clients are facing increasingly complex economic, legal and regulatory issues, we wanted to put the skills and high standards of the lawyers who constitute our ecosystem at the service of an agile, modern and dynamic structure. This human scale structure benefits from the independence and flexibility necessary to provide tailored, committed and personalized support to our clients.

In a constantly changing world, where our clients are facing increasingly complex economic, legal and regulatory issues, we wanted to put the skills and high standards of the lawyers who constitute our ecosystem at the service of an agile, modern and dynamic structure. This human scale structure benefits from the independence and flexibility necessary to provide tailored, committed and personalized support to our clients.

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Our priority

Putting our skills, our high standards and our boldness at the service of your success.

Our commitment

To become a trusted partner for your teams and your business.

Our strength

Our strength is above all that of our team and our ecosystem, which brings together experts committed to a common vision and energy.

Our philosophy

Do it « Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger (...) » !

Our recipe

A business & tech-oriented approach, a strong commitment and enthusiasm and a good dose of creativity.

Our desire

Supporting the transformation of our profession, giving meaning, rethinking management and organizational methods, acquiring and developing the loyalty of talents are challenges that we are facing in the same way as our clients. We attach particular importance to reinventing ourselves and regularly rethinking our service offerings to be able to offer our clients support that is increasingly adapted to their needs and constraints. We have also rethought our organization and working methods by choosing agility (coworking, setting up a partner ecosystem, etc.) and digitalization (dematerialization solutions, collaborative tools, legaltech, etc.).

We support the major actors of the tech and digital world, on the most innovative technologies

We are committed on a daily to the major actors in the world of technology and digital (large groups, SMEs and startups), whether these innovative projects are at the heart of their business model or a way to support their growth. We put our specialized expertise at your service to help you solve your problems and anticipate future challenges.

Position yourself in relation to your competitors and market practices

Due to the numerous cases we have been entrusted with by our clients over the years, we have a high value-added benchmark of market practices thanks to our multi-sectoral experiences, both on the client and provider sides, going beyond the tech industry alone. In addition to the legal solutions we build with you, we share our knowledge of market practices to help you position yourself on these issues, compared to companies in your sector or in similar sectors.

Benefit from a pragmatic approach to your projects, in project mode, adapted to your practices

We always take into account your economic stakes and concerns, your corporate strategy and the business realities of your projects. Most of our lawyers have been seconded for a long time to legal departments, which allows them to understand your daily realities and to provide you with practical and pragmatic answers adapted to your issues. When necessary, we work with technical experts (IT and cybersecurity consultants) whose expertise allows us to go beyond a single legal vision of the issues and who are a considerable assets for our clients to benefit from quality advice on projects requiring legal and technical skills.

Be accompanied by lawyers who speak the same language as you

We have the expertise to provide a 360° approach to digital technology, integrating all the skills required for a project in all its legal, regulatory and compliance aspects. We are convinced that the construction of quality legal solutions requires in our field an understanding of the technologies. This is why we participate in the largest technology conferences on the market (Web Summit, Vivatech, etc.) and train ourselves to understand the most innovative technologies and their challenges. We regularly offer our clients the opportunity to deal with issues or organize work-shops with technical experts (engineers, IT or cybersecurity consultants).
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Over the years, we have assisted our clients on their innovative, structuring and strategic projects. Some examples:

Daily assistance to a global telecommunications provider, market leader, in the data center hosting sector:

Daily assistance in matters of commercial law, contract law, technology law and telecommunications law: i) Adaptation and negotiation of contracts with clients and prospects for the provision of colocation services, IaaS services, Cloud etc.); ii) negotiation for almost a year of a partnership agreement with a strategic partner for the development of its business in a new location.

Structuring, contractualization and negotiation of a partnership and co-development agreement:

Assistance for 15 months to a major hotel group in the structuring, contractualization and negotiation of a partnership with a company specialized in the management of payment terminals and financial transactions. The purpose of the partnership was to co-develop a centralized and global payment platform, to supply connected payment terminals and associated logistic and payment services.

Assistance to a French major company in the management of its software licenses portfolio and more generally in the adaptation of its agreements with third party software providers to its new technical and economic model:

Conducting an audit of the use of software licenses within the group, analysis of the contractual framework and identification of the related non-compliance, identification of the adequate legal structuring with respect to the transformation of the technical and economic model of the group, assisting the client in its discussions with the software provider and setting up a pre-litigation strategy.

Daily assistance to a company whose activities are based on a deep learning technology:

Assistance and support of this company in the development and implementation of a strategy to protect its technology in terms of intellectual property, contractual and commercial law, support in structuring the business model and contractual documentation, concerning both contracts with its partners and customers, contractual negotiation with its major customers.

Assistance of a major software provider:

Regular secondments within the legal departments. Example of a recent case: assistance in the renegotiation of a major global project for the deployment of software and services and specific elements co-developed by the parties for the needs of a client, enabling the client to accelerate the digital transformation of its processes (implementation of licensing schemes adapted to the structure of the client's group, management of the rights to the co-developed works, etc.)

Assistance to a CAC40 company in the energy sector for the deployment and security of its platforms, based on blockchain technology


Assistance of a US company in structuring its distribution schemes:

Elaboration and drafting of license and distribution agreements (distributors, resellers, Managed Services providers etc.) adapted and optimized for a digital environment and a worldwide deployment.

Assistance of an international communications group with the data protection compliance of a global platform using a technology based on artificial intelligence:

In this context, determination of entities to be considered as data controllers; determination of legal basis for processing; drafting of legitimate interest assessments; assistance in drafting privacy policies, etc.

Assistance to a company whose activities are based on machine learning technology :

Determining the conditions of lawfulness of the processing; the legal basis of the processing; documenting the balance of interests performed to be able to rely on the legitimate interest; performing a Data Protection Impact Assessment; assisting the teams in their contract negotiations.

Audit of webmarketing practices (targeting, retargeting, drive2store, in-store audience measurement, etc.) of the French entity of an international group in the retail sector:

In this context, we conducted interviews with the marketing teams, analyzed documents, held working meetings with the media agency, performed a gap analysis, and presented the compliance analysis in PowerPoint format, along with a remediation action plan and specific points of attention for future projects.

Assisted numerous clients (catering, pharmaceutical, financial, real estate industries, etc.) in the context of personal data breaches:

Participation in crisis meetings; assistance in the qualification of the breach to determine whether it required notifications to the CNIL and to the individuals concerned; assistance in the notifications to be made (drafting the content of the notifications); etc.

Audits and compliance programs for various clients in the fields of defense, energy, transportation, finance, retail, real estate, technologies, etc.


Assistance to a large real estate group in the compliance of all its websites with the new rules regarding cookies:

In this context, analysis of the documentation provided by the Consent Management Platform (CMP) providers; analysis of the activity reports of the cookies and other tracers placed on each site in order to classify them in the right categories; drafting of the first and second level wording on the CMP; drafting and adaptation of the Cookies Policy to the cookies placed on each of the websites; assistance of the marketing teams in defining the setting of the CMP.

Our team

Our strength is, above all, our team, united around a common vision and energy, to serve the success of your projects

Laura Ziegler

Laura Ziegler advises French and foreign clients on Digital and IT law. She has gained in-depth and cross practice knowledge of IT/Tech and digital issues, thanks to the various matters she has worked on since 2011, as well as several long-term secondments in her clients’ departments, which allows her to offer a unique, responsive, expert and practical set of legal skills thanks to her technical expertise and knowledge of the industries in which its clients operate.

This enables her to provide advisory and litigation support on IT/Tech, and Digital/ Internet law issues. She assists and advises leading French and international companies with the implementation of digital transformation, dematerialization and complex worldwide IT and partnership projects (outsourcing, cloud computing, agile methodology, integration, co-development, R&D) in technology, new economy, finance (e-payment), design, services and telecom industries.

She has been a strategic partner on a number of large IT projects based on innovative technologies (artificial intelligence solutions, blockchain, 3D modeling, virtual reality, IoT, new payment methods), notably for software editors specializing in AI and blockchain technologies, assisting them in the commercial and contractual structuring and negotiation of these projects.

She also regularly assists our clients who are facing or performing software license audits. She has a solid experience in IT prelitigation and litigation in particular in the context of major IT projects (and their failures), software counterfeiting and with respect to Internet issues (liability of technical intermediaries, security of information systems, cybersecurity and in the telecommunications sector).

She assists and advises clients on digital and internet matters, such as drafting terms of use, terms and conditions as well as in providing strategic advices on platforms requirements and in electronic communications matters.

Expertise

  • New technologies
  • IT and software
  • Digital, Internet and intermediaries liability
  • Telecommunications
  • Contract law, contractual negotiation

Professional experience

  • BCTG Avocats - Paris
  • August Debouzy – Paris
  • DLA Piper – Paris
  • Gale P. Elston, New-York
  • Gide – Paris
  • Asmar & Assayag – Paris

Training

  • Master Degree in E-Commerce and Digital Economy Law, Paris 1, Panthéon Sorbonne, 2009
  • Master Degree in Contract Law, Paris 11, Université Paris-Sud Jean Monnet, 2008

Admission to the Bar

  • Paris, 2011

Langues

  • French
  • English
Sandra Tubert

Sandra TUBERT advises French and international clients in data protection and privacy law matters.

She has gained in-depth and cross practice knowledge of privacy and data protection issues, thanks to the various matters she has worked on since 2012 as well as the secondments in legal departments of several companies

This enables her to assist clients in various projects, including feasibility notes and memoranda (where data is at the heart of the project, mainly big data, Artificial Intelligence, blockchain and connected objects matters), data protection impact assessments, data protection compliance audits, implementation of GDPR compliance programs, assistance for the implementation of international data transfers and outsourcing projects, implementation of marketing and web marketing projects (direct marketing, cookies placement, profiling, drive-to-store) in sectors such as tech, retail, life science, healthcare and transportation services.

She also provides daily assistance to DPOs, CTOs and legal departments.

Her past experiences have allowed her to acquire a solid experience in CNIL pre-litigation and litigation, which enables her to assist her clients in their relations with the CNIL or in pre-litigation and litigation procedures : investigations, formal notices and CNIL sanction procedures, procedures before the French courts.

She also acts in matters of communication law, whether for audits and compliance of websites or to advise her clients on the compliance of their web marketing and direct marketing projects (targeted advertising, cookies, profiling, drive-to-store, etc.).

Finally, she provides assistance in cybersecurity matters, whether in the context of personal data breach management (analysis of the situation to determine whether notifications to the authorities or the data subjects are necessary, crisis meetings, drafting of notifications) or in terms of advice on the formalities to be carried out with the ANSSI, for example in the context of the use of encryption methods, or in assisting clients to identify the certifications that can be obtained (eIDAS, RGS, etc.).

Expertise

  • Data protection & Privacy
  • Cybersecurity
  • Digital, Internet and intermediaries liability
  • Communication law and webmarketing
  • E-commerce

Professional experience

  • BCTG Avocats - Paris
  • August Debouzy – Paris
  • PDGB – Paris
  • Strato-IP – Paris
  • Heenan Blaikie (désormais DWF) – Paris
  • Robic – Montréal, Canada

Training

  • Master Degree in Intangible Creations Law, Montpellier 1, 2009

Admission to the Bar

  • Paris, 2012

Langues

  • French
  • English
Laura Ziegler

Expertise

  • Protection des données à caractère personnel
  • Informatique et logiciel
  • Droit de la communication et webmarketing
  • Internet et responsabilité des intermédiaires
  • Télécommunications
  • E-commerce
  • Droit des contrats

Expériences professionnelles

  • Eversheds Sutherland - Paris
  • Hogan Lovells – Paris
  • Jones Day – Paris

Formation

  • Master 2 Droit des Activités Numériques, Paris V, Descartes, 2019

Admission au Barreau

  • Paris, 2021

Langues

  • Français
  • Anglais
Laura Ziegler

Expertise

  • Informatique et logiciel
  • Droit de la communication et webmarketing
  • Internet et responsabilité des intermédiaires
  • Télécommunications
  • E-commerce
  • Protection des données à caractère personnel
  • Droit des contrats

Expériences professionnelles

  • BCTG Avocats – Paris
  • Women Management - Paris
  • August Debouzy – Paris
  • Cabinet Pierre Lautier - Paris

Formation

  • Master 2 Droit de la propriété intellectuelle et TIC– Université de Montpellier
  • Doctorat de droit privé, « La blokchain et le droit d’auteur » Université Grenoble Alpes

Admission au Barreau

  • 2020-2021 : Ecole des Avocats de la région Rhône Alpes (EDARA)

Langues

  • Français
  • Anglais

Ecosystem

If the core expertise of Algo's co-founders is by nature tech and data, Algo's vocation is to bring together within the same ecosystem lawyers trained to the excellence and requirements of the largest law firms. This allows Algo to intervene in all areas of expertise in business law, thanks to this ecosystem of lawyers who have in common an in-depth knowledge of the digital and tech world and the issues it implies in their respective fields of expertise.

Algo is an ecosystem of trusted lawyers and experts, which allows us to support our clients in a transversal and international manner in order to provide them with the best possible legal assistance.

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In France

While Algo Avocats' vocation is to bring together specialised lawyers, all of whom have in common an in-depth knowledge of the digital and tech world applied to their areas of expertise, we also rely on a trusted ecosystem, built up over our 10 years of experience, to work closely with numerous specialised lawyers who work alongside our clients when the case requires cross-disciplinary expertise: employment law, public law, health law, corporate law and venture capital, banking and finance law, tax law, and criminal business law.

And all over the world

We also have established trustworthy relationships with foreign law firms specializing in our fields, both within the European Union and internationally (in the United Kingdom, Canada, the United States, Singapore, China, etc.), so that we are able to provide our clients with agile support on all their issues throughout the world.

We also work alongside technical experts (engineers, IT and cybersecurity consultants) whose expertise allows us to go beyond a single legal vision of the issues and who are considerable assets for our clients to benefit from quality advice on projects requiring legal and technical skills (GDPR compliance audit, DPIA, IT audit, ANSSI procedure, etc.).

Finally, because exchanges are essential to position ourselves efficiently on these innovative topics, we are members of French and international associations that bring together experts in our sector of expertise : 

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