Sylvie de Oliveira
Sylvie has been a member of the Paris Bar since 2002. Her areas of practice include both advising and litigation in all aspects related to IT and commercial matters. She advises both services providers and users on structuring, drafting, negotiating and managing their projects and strategic agreements (IT services agreements, outsourcing, telecom infrastructure, teaming agreements, e-commerce, distribution). Sylvie also assists clients in protecting their IP rights during mergers and acquisitions deals and all along their business life and on data protection matters. She is fluent in French, English, Spanish and Portuguese. Graduated from University of Paris X-Nanterre (DEA in Private Law) and from HEC / ESCP-EAP (Postgraduate degree in International Management and Law), she previously worked for Bird&Bird and Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer.
Practice
Commercial Agreements
- Distribution agreements, commercial agent or business contributor agreements, study agreements, amendments
- Agreements related to M&A transactions: non disclosure agreements, letters of intent, due diligence, audit reports, transactional service agreements
- Indemnification agreements, performance guarantees, parent company guarantees
- Participated in implementing French « PPP » agreements (« contrats partenariat public-privé »)
- Negotiated services contracts in the specific context of an insolvency proceedings, under the aegis of the CIRI (a branch of the French Ministry of Finance) and of the court appointed judicial administrator
Other Practitioners
Corinne Czens
Intellectual Property
- Drafted and negotiated brand license agreements, trade mark co-existence agreements
- Drafted and negotiated patent and know-how license agreements
- R&D and collaboration agreements
- National or international agreements for assignment of IP rights
- Agreements relating to communications and media, advertising management
- IP issues arising from the creation, protection and use of database
Other Practitioners
Internet and e-commerce
- Website hosting agreements, ASP agreements, ISP and web-hosting providers liability
- Terms and conditions of use, B2B and B2C online terms and conditions
- Advising on encryption regulations, electronic signatures and on IT security
- Drafting in-house IT policies
Other Practitioners
IT agreements
- Drafted, negotiated and coordinated IT outsourcing deals and off-shore
- ERP implementation projects (RFP, selection, agreements, implementation)
- Software licensing, distribution license agreements, software development agreements, SaaS agreements
- Agreements for the provisions of telecommunication network
- IT services agreements (hosting, maintenance support…)
- Risk and contract management
- IT disputes and litigations (failure of IT projects, assessment of risks and damages, legal IT expertise proceedings)
Other Practitioners
Partnership agreements
- Wide range of memoranda of understanding, teaming agreements, partnerships
- Commercial cooperation agreements
- Teaming agreements for or after invitations to tender
- Consortium agreements
- Subcontracts
- Pre contractual documentation for invitations to tender (RFI, RFP, requirements)
Other Practitioners
Personal data
- Collection and use of personal data at an international, regional or local level
- Filing notification procedure to the CNIL
- Agreements for transferring data to affiliated companies or third parties outside or inside EU including drafting intercompany data transfer agreements, implementation of BCRs
- Whistleblowing system, codes of conduct
Other Practitioners
Publications
L’ordonnance du 24 août 2011 – Violation de données à caractère personnel et fournisseur de services de communications électroniques
L’ordonnance du 24 août 2011 transpose les directives 2009/136 et 2009/140 relatives au secteur des communications électroniques. L’un de ses apports est de renforcer la protection de la vie privée et des données personnelles.
Affaire Darty : la vente de logiciel préinstallé sur un ordinateur est une pratique commerciale déloyale
Dans un arrêt du 6 octobre 2011, la Cour de cassation estime que le vendeur d’ordinateurs et de logiciels préinstallés doit informer le consommateur du prix de l’un et de l’autre distinctement.
Le nouveau champ d’application des dispositifs d’alerte professionnelle
Par délibération du 14 octobre 2010, la CNIL a mis fin à la confusion qui existait sur le champ d’application des dispositifs d’alerte professionnelle (« whistleblowing system »). Ces dispositifs doivent désormais être strictement limités aux seuls domaines comptable, financier, de la lutte contre la corruption des pratiques anticoncurrentielles et aux traitements autorisés par les lois « Sabarnes Oxley » ou « Japanese SOX ».