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From the setting up of a trading entity to commissioning a web site, from dealing with complex multi-jurisdictional tax problems to successfully floating an internet company, the lawyers at SJ Berwin have acquired the relevant experience and industry knowledge over several years to advise at all levels and on all aspects of electronic commerce. Recent work includes:

• acting for the investing institutions on more than a dozen e-commerce and related sector start-ups and growing businesses
• representing several internet companies during their start-up, development and pre-IPO rounds of financing
• structuring and establishing numerous private equity funds which specialise in internet investing
• advising various international companies on the implications of e-commerce for their established distribution channels and the application of EU competition law to issues such as differential pricing and parallel imports
• establishing and advising ISPs
• drafting terms and conditions for the use of websites
• drafting, negotiating and advising on affiliation and cross-marketing agreements between web sites and on-line advertising
• advising on the regulation of on-line betting and gaming
• advising in relation to the availability of internet distribution rights
• registering domain names as trade marks and formulating trade mark protection programmes
• taking legal proceedings on behalf of brand owners against domain name pirates (or cyber-squatters)
• advising on the regulatory aspects of establishing a financial services portal site
• analysing the marketing restrictions and prospectus requirements in respect of internet IPOs and secondary offers
• identifying multi-jurisdictional tax obligations and liabilities
• advising on tax-efficient holding structures for interest in e-businesses
• assisting clients who need space for distribution centres in connection with their internet shopping activities