A Legal Checklist for Technology and SaaS Contracts

Jana Gouchev | Gouchev Law

Jana Gouchev is the Managing Attorney of Gouchev Law. Her practice focuses on Technology Law, Corporate Law, Commercial Transactions, Mergers & Acquisitions, and Intellectual Property. She formerly practiced at an AmLaw 100 firm in corporate law, and currently serves as outside counsel to GCs at leading enterprise Fortune 100 companies.

Jana represents global corporations, emerging companies, and venture and private equity firms. Jana’s clients come from a wide variety of industries, including tech, media & entertainment, e-commerce, and Artificial Intelligence (AI), Virtual Reality (VR), and Augmented Reality (AR). This extensive client base allows Jana to leverage relationships and deep market knowledge on behalf of our clients.

Jana has a proven track record as a top negotiator for structuring successful transactions, whether it’s in the field of technology law, data privacy, a joint venture, a licensing deal, or an acquisition. In addition to service agreements, SaaS agreements, and procurement agreements. Jana negotiates nuanced tech deals related to software development and usage, technology licensing and sourcing, metrics and analytics, web hosting, cybersecurity policies, and terms of use and privacy policies.

In addition to her technology law practice, Jana has extensive experience in corporate matters, including formations and restructurings, commercial contracts, capital market transactions, mergers and acquisitions, venture financing, licensing, and employee contracts including stock options and executive compensation.

Jana’s IP robust practice includes trademark registrations, prosecution, IP licensing, brand collaborations, joint ventures, IP purchases, and patent strategy.

Jana is consistently featured in publications such as U.S. News and World Report – Best Lawyers®, Bloomberg, Forbes, Business Insider, Inc., Modern Counsel, and Profile Magazine, among others. She was named one of the Top 3 Business Lawyers in New York for the past 5 years, most recently in 2022. She is deeply passionate about working with visionaries who are leaders in their fields.

I. Intellectual property rights in SaaS Agreements | 11:00am – 11:10am

II. License Scope | 11:10am – 11:20am

III. Delivery and Acceptance | 11:20am – 11:30am

IV. How to protect your data in the cloud — data security, personally identifiable information (PII), privacy, IT security, and offshore service and data storage facilities | 11:30am – 11:45am

V. Limitation of Liability and the respective caps and carve-outs that can make or break risk exposure | 11:45am – 12:00pm

Break | 12:00pm – 12:10pm

VI. Business continuity and transition services | 12:10pm – 12:20pm

VII. Service levels, SLAs | 12:20pm – 12:30pm

VIII. Intellectual property provisions — how not to get cornered into losing your rights | 12:30pm – 12:40pm

IX. Litigation avoidance strategies | 12:40pm – 12:55pm

X. Termination | 12:55pm – 1:10pm