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Software outsourcing in Russia and legal issues

Mikhail Bashirov, LL.M., PhD

Managing Partner,

Bashirov and Partners law firm

•    Overview of Russian IT market

 Russian IT Market in 2012 – about $ 34 Bln. (without telecom)

60% - hardware, 20% - software, 20% - services

Growth forecast for 2013 – 3-4 % in US $ equivalent (IDC, Gartner etc.)

Cloud computing:

–   In general – about 11% of clients

–   IaaS – 13%

–   PaaS – 2,5%

–   SaaS – 11,5%

•    Overview of Russian IT Outsourcing market

Software, services and software development export:

–   2012 – $ 4,7 Bln.

–   2013 (forecast) - $ 5,5 Bln.

            appr. 15% of Russian IT market (and 35 % of IT market w/o hardware)

 Percentage of segments in IT export:

–   50% - services

–   40% - software

–   10% - software development

Priorities of Russian software companies (% of all interviewed ones):

–   41% - internal market focus

–   30% - global markets expansion

–   19% - Internet distribution development

•    Software development outsourcing
– legal issues

Agreements are generally governed by foreign law

Certain Russian law provisions will apply to agreements

 Intellectual property ownership matters – specific Russian law provision to negotiate IP contractual provisions carefully

Certain other legal matters: liability limitations, warranties etc.

 In general – international practices are acceptable

•    Cloud computing legal issues

Specific types of agreements: services + (or w/o?) licenses different approaches for SaaS, IaaS, PaaS, data hosting

Personal data protection issues

Encryption and information security issues

Thank you! Any questions?

  Bashirov and Partners LLC

  Russian ITC/IP boutique law firm

   ü   Intellectual property

   ü   Information  technologies and telecom