Industries
U.S. Legal Counsel for Technology Companies
Software, SaaS, artificial intelligence, and data-driven businesses on recurring-revenue contracting, data and IP ownership, private financings, and technology acquisitions.
Overview
Industry Overview
Technology companies operate on recurring-revenue models, platform-mediated relationships, and rapid product iteration. The contracting environment centers on SaaS master services agreements, API licenses, platform terms of service, and data-processing arrangements — each of which must allocate service scope, data rights, intellectual-property ownership, and liability across the provider-customer relationship.
Corporate, financing, and acquisition work arises because technology businesses raise capital through SAFEs, convertible notes, and preferred equity, acquire and divest software assets, and require governance documentation that aligns founder equity, investor rights, and IP ownership with the company's operating model.
Legal Issues
Typical Legal and Commercial Issues
SaaS contracting architecture
How the MSA, order form, SOW, SLA, and data-processing addenda interrelate, and whether renewal, auto-renewal, and termination mechanics are consistent across the stack.
API and software licensing scope
What uses are permitted, whether derivative works are allowed, how rate limits and restrictions are enforced, and what happens to access on termination.
Platform terms and data rights
Who owns platform data, user-generated content, and product improvements, and how data-processing obligations are allocated between provider and customer.
IP ownership of developments
Whether customer developments, configurations, or integrations are owned by the provider or the customer, and how pre-existing materials are carved out.
Enterprise liability and indemnification
Where liability caps, super-caps, consequential-damages exclusions, and data-recovery carve-backs sit, and whether indemnification covers IP infringement, data breach, or both.
Financing and acquisition documentation
How SAFE, convertible note, or preferred equity instruments affect the cap table, and what software-related rights and operational arrangements transfer in a technology acquisition.
Experience
Selected Representative Experience
API License Agreement Review and Negotiation
Reviewed and negotiated an API license agreement, focusing on permitted use, intellectual-property rights, data treatment, restrictions, termination and risk allocation.
SaaS MSA and Order Form Review
Reviewed a SaaS master services agreement and related order forms for an Illinois B2B analytics company, focusing on scope, payment, service obligations, data, intellectual property, warranties, indemnification and liability limitations.
Creative Marketplace Licensing and Platform Agreements
Drafted coordinated licensing and platform agreements for a creative marketplace, addressing platform participation, content and intellectual-property rights, commercial terms and responsibility allocation.
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Practice Areas
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Publications
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Commercial Contracts
Liability Caps in Commercial Contracts: Allocating Risk Between Parties
Liability caps allocate negotiated commercial risk through defined cap measures, damages exclusions, tailored carve-outs, super-caps, indemnities, and separate limited remedies.
Daehoon Park · May 29, 2026
Technology Transactions
API Licensing: Key Provisions and Risk Allocation
API agreements should separately address access rights, IP and data use, operational controls, security, change management, exit, and financial risk. The required terms depend on the API model, data flows, applicable law, and bargaining position.
Daehoon Park · May 23, 2026
Technology Transactions
SaaS Contract Architecture: Making the MSA, SOW, SLA, DPA, and Security Terms Work Together
A SaaS deal is governed by a contract suite, not one document. The MSA, orders or SOWs, SLA, DPA, security terms, and online policies must assign each issue to one controlling provision and align operational commitments with remedies, liability, change control, and exit.
Daehoon Park · Apr 27, 2026