DECRA · NAIROBI, KENYA

Legal Review, Audit & Commercialization

Product-focused legal review and technology transactions for teams preparing to launch, commercialize, license, procure or invest in digital products.

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01 — APPROACH

The decision this work supports

For product and commercial teams approaching launch, a material partnership, a procurement, a financing or an acquisition—and needing to understand the legal and ownership issues that could change the terms or timing.

How the work is approached

Read the product, data flows and commercial model alongside the relevant agreements. Separate launch-critical issues from matters that can be managed contractually or addressed over time, then set out practical next actions.

What it can produce
  • Prioritized product, privacy and contract findings
  • Ownership, licensing and open-source issue maps
  • Drafting or transaction support defined in the engagement scope

Scope and limits. This is product and technology advisory. Formal legal representation, court work and filings are outside scope and are referred to a practising advocate where required. Applicable law, markets and deliverables are agreed at intake.

Examining a product already built, or about to ship, against what it claims and what the law requires, written up as findings to act on.

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Data Protection & Privacy Audit

Examining what a product collects, why, where it goes, and whether any of that matches what users were told and what the law allows.

Data mapping & inventoryLawful basis reviewConsent mechanicsRetention & deletionCross-border transfersProcessor & vendor termsData subject request handlingBreach notification readinessODPC registration review
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03

AI & Automated Decision Audit

Examining where a product decides something about a person automatically, what that decision rests on, and what can be shown to a regulator asking about it.

Automated decision inventoryTraining data provenanceModel documentationHuman oversight & escalationExplainability & noticeBias & disparate impact reviewAI vendor & model termsEvaluation evidence
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04

Consumer, Terms & Disclosure Audit

Checking that what the interface promises, what the terms say, and what the product actually does are the same three things.

Terms & policy accuracyPricing & billing disclosureCancellation & refund flowsDark pattern reviewMarketing claim substantiationAccessibility obligationsAge & eligibility gating
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05

Licensing & Open-Source Compliance Audit

Establishing what third-party code and data a product depends on, and whether the terms it was taken under permit what is being done with it.

Dependency & licence inventoryCopyleft exposureAttribution & notice obligationsSaaS & distribution triggersModel & dataset licencesContributor & contractor IP chainRemediation plan
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06

Regulatory Gap Analysis

Setting the product against the regimes that actually reach it, sector by sector and market by market, and ranking what is missing by what it would cost to be caught.

Applicable regime mappingSector-specific obligationsMarket entry requirementsLicensing & registration gapsEnforcement exposure rankingRemediation roadmapBoard & investor reporting
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Who owns what inside the product, and the agreements it is taken to market on.

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Technology & Intellectual Property

Structuring ownership, licensing, protection, and commercialization of software, AI, data, and digital innovation.

Technology IP strategySoftware ownershipSoftware licensingOpen-source governanceOpen-source complianceAI & data ownershipDeveloper & contractor IPTechnology commercializationIP portfolio strategyIP risk assessment
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08

Technology Transactions

Structuring the agreements and commercial relationships that enable technology development, deployment, integration, and commercialization.

SaaS agreementsPlatform agreementsSoftware licensingTechnology procurementVendor agreementsTechnology services agreementsData processing agreementsAPI & integration agreementsCloud agreementsAI vendor agreementsCommercial partnershipsTechnology commercialization
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09

Cyber Insurance & Professional Indemnity

Reading and placing the cover that sits behind the product: what a breach, an outage, or a bad line of code actually exposes a developer or a procurer to, and what a policy would need to answer for it to be worth the premium.

Cyber liability coverProfessional indemnity coverPolicy wording reviewCoverage gap analysisVendor & procurer risk allocationBreach & incident response coverClaims support
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COMMON QUESTIONS

Questions about legal review, audit & commercialization

01When is a product legal review most useful?

Before launch or a significant change to product features, data use, pricing or third-party integrations—especially when existing terms may no longer describe how the product works.

02Can you review technology agreements and ownership?

Yes. Scope can include SaaS, licensing, procurement, vendor, development and data-processing arrangements, as well as software, AI, data and contractor IP ownership.

03Does this include court representation or formal filings?

No. The practice focuses on product and technology advisory. Matters requiring formal representation or filings are referred to a practising advocate.

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