Partnerships have many advantages, from reducing risk and costs to sharing knowledge and skills.
However, before you embark on developing your partnership, you need pragmatic advice aligned to your goals and a solid working knowledge of how such partnerships can be structured to optimise successful outcomes.
We work with many clients on all aspects of strategic partnerships. Our clients come from many areas, and from both the public and private sectors. We act across the board for procuring bodies, for suppliers, funders, developers and contractors. We will be able to see your deal from all angles and use our in-depth sectoral knowledge and understanding to create a partnership that works smoothly for everyone involved.
You will also benefit from the size of our organization. We can draw on the proficiency of colleagues from other areas, such as real estate, finance, regulatory, data protection, intellectual property, employment and tax. We also have a huge global reach: if your work covers multiple jurisdictions we can call on a member of our team with detailed local knowledge of each geographical area.
We will be with you from the beginning, helping you to define your objectives and evaluate if a partnership is needed, establishing the right kind of partnership for you and, finally making sure your venture delivers what it was set up to do. When your partnership comes to an end, we will help you to dissolve it efficiently and fairly. At every stage we will ensure your objectives are at the forefront.
The strategic partnership team offers substantial experience in advising on the lifecycle of a partnership so it works for all parties throughout its existence. Our experience includes advising:
- a confidential partnership that is being developed by a number of pillar financial services providers in order to establish critical technology and infrastructure for the financial service sector in Ireland
- a regulated financial services provider on two significant and strategic partnerships in respect of the marketing and promotion of personal loans and credit cards products through the commercial partner’s unique network. As part of these two commercial partnerships, we led the drafting and successful negotiation of a sophisticated marketing, brand and distribution agreement
- an international electrical goods manufacturer in relation to its strategic partnership with an energy supplier on the successful development and launch of an interconnected IoT radiator system. As part of the engagement, we advised on the intellectual property ownership issues on the collaborative intellectual property development, as well as data protection issues and marketing obligations
- various clients on strategic partnerships relating to the co-development of renewable energy assets
- a smart kitchen platform in relation to the drafting and negotiation of a connected appliances partnering agreement to be entered into with a leading brand of electrical appliances in relation to amongst other things, the collaboration, development and integration of some of our client’s connected functionality technology into the partner’s consumer range of goods