David Ford is a partner in the Securities and Technology Group. His corporate practice is focused on assisting clients in achieving their business goals in the technology sector.
David provides private technology companies with tactical and innovative legal advice. His growing practice is centered on technology mergers and acquisitions including share and asset acquisitions, divestitures and purchase and sale transactions involving discrete intellectual property, and early-stage technology financing transactions involving both venture capital and Angel capital. David manages complex IT transactions such as licensing, distribution, managed services and alliance agreements; IT and BPO outsourcing arrangements; technology consulting; and professional services agreements.
Having practised in both the US and Canada, David brings competitive knowledge to Canadian technology companies looking to commercialize their products in the US marketplace and to US counsel exploring Canadian opportunities for their American clients. David is well-versed with and provides strategic advice regarding US and international technology-related regulations, particularly relating to privacy and data protection, such as under HIPAA, the Financial Services (Gramm-Leach-Bailey) Act, COPPA, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, and the EU Directives on data protection and electronic commerce.
Membership/Affiliations
- Canadian Bar Association
- Computer and Technology Section, American Bar Association
- Computer Law Section, State Bar of Texas
- Business Law and Technology Sections, Licensing Executives Society