NAVIGATING THE WORLD OF TECH LAW
WITH LEGAL EXPERTISE.

• SaaS agreements
• Cloud services (IaaS, PaaS)
• Software development & licensing
• Business / Technology Process Outsourcing & Offshoring
• Platform agreements
• AI-product contracting
• Managed services & outsourcing
• Digital transformation programmes
• Integration and implementation contracts

For 30 years, I have worked directly with global technology sales organisations — travelling extensively, negotiating complex deals, and supporting aggressive growth targets.

I help vendors by taking a practical approach based around their risk tolerance:

• I don’t make mountain out of mole hills and help my client understand the risk within their commercial reality
• progress deals to close faster - revenue is the lifeline of any Sales function manage risks without losing revenue
• handle competitive multi-vendor RFPs
• respond to aggressive procurement positions & strategy
• adapt global templates to local requirements
• anticipate red flags early and communicate risks in a manner they are understood by the right stakeholders

I understand the pressure, the pace, and the expectations. I’ve lived it.

Technology procurement is high-risk, highly technical, and commercially complex.

I support buyers by working with the procurement team: strengthening contractual protections

• developing negotiation playbooks
• preventing vendors from using jargon or ambiguity (and thereby run rings)
• ensuring deliverables, SLAs, liabilities, and warranties are watertight
• validating pricing, benchmarking, and exit rights
• creating contracts that work in adversity, not just on signature day

Having worked for several technology vendors I understand their methodology, risk tolerance v hunger for revenue and have a sense of their pain points. I understand how large technology companies practically avoid risks successfully in negotiations.

A successful technology procurement is not just about signing a contract — it’s about ensuring you can hold the vendor’s feet to the fire when things go wrong.

I have worked closely with start-ups through funding rounds, growth phases, pivots, and international expansion.

Support includes:

• founder agreements
• IP protection
• customer and vendor contracts
• partnership agreements
• regulatory compliance
• risk mitigation in growth
• preparing for investment or acquisition

With 30 years of experience as a General Counsel myself and having sat on the leadership team of these companies, I understand the requirements of the in-house lawyer as they juggle numerous balls all at the same time. I offer fractional/outsourced in-house lawyer / GC services:

• Overflow Support often time an in-house team encounter spikes in work load which they are unable to capacities for with a limited budget. Law firms are expensive and are often unable to provide value proportionate the fees charged. I understand this and can hit the ground running without having to worry about the proverbial “meter running”
• Major Negotiations are often very sensitive for companies as this is a fine balancing act that the in-house lawyer is required to do. Law firms can take over such negotiations, but in my experience as a GC that can often break the bank. I have lived and negotiated contracts all over the world, working with stakeholders of all cultures, background, seniority and position. I am adept at doing the fine balancing act for the in-house team.
• Contract rationalisation
• Having worked in this sector for 30 years (and right from the outset), I have been exposed to, considered and dealt with risks of all magnitude. I understand that there is nothing called as “risk free business” and hence I take a pragmatic and experienced view of the risks.
• Compliance Programme - I have designed and run compliance programme of multi-billion dollar yearly revenue companies which employ hundreds of thousands of employees and contractors with extensive and complex operations in all continents. I understand that in the world of technology companies “a single mine can sink the entire ship” and I have worked on creating and running sophisticated compliance programmes dealing with operational and jurisdictional complexity that can arise in a technology company.
• legal operations design
• external counsel management

I understand exactly what an in-house team needs — and how to deliver it efficiently.

DORA introduces mandatory ICT governance standards, enforceable audit rights, and direct regulatory oversight of critical ICT providers.

Padme provides strategic, fixed-fee DORA advisory to banks, fintechs, insurers, payment institutions, regulated crypto-asset firms, technology vendors serving regulated clients. Our services include:

1. DORA Contract Architecture Review
2. Board & Governance Alignment
3. Third-Party Audit Strategy
4. DORA + AI Governance Integration

Given my three decades' experience as a General Counsel/In-house Counsel, we don’t deliver just compliance checklists. Padme will for a fixed fee deliver governance architecture and contract frameworks that withstand scrutiny.

Coming soon!