David Crane

Practice Areas

David is a partner in the Business Law and Information Technology Law groups in the Vancouver office of McCarthy Tétrault. His practice focuses primarily on complex commercial transactions involving technology and intellectual property.

For over 20 years, David has been assisting clients in a wide range of sectors with their complex and strategic technology-related transactions, including technology procurement, business process and technology-based outsourcings, IT systems development, integration and implementation projects, inbound and outbound technology licensing, cloud (SaaS, IaaS, PaaS) services agreements, telecommunications services agreements, supply agreements, data sharing arrangements, joint venture and other strategic alliance arrangements, mergers and acquisitions, and financings.

David also provides strategic advice with respect to technology and data commercialization, intellectual property, e-commerce, privacy and data protection, cybersecurity, procurement, open source software, blockchain, artificial intelligence, anti-spam and social media.

Career

British Columbia bar - 2002

Professional Memberships

David is a former director of the Canadian Technology Law Association and a frequent course instructor for Supply Chain Canada (formerly the Centre for Outsourcing Research and Education (CORE)).