FAQ

About our company

• What are our specializations?

  The Stalirov&Co team consists of 14 in-house lawyers specializing in different areas:

  • Business structuring and taxes
  • Contracts and license agreements
  • Terms of use and Privacy Policy for E-commerce, Mobile and Desktop apps, SaaS, PaaS, ERP, CRM, FinTech, and MedTech
  • GDPR Compliance and dispute resolution

   

  We ensure comprehensive customer support. Our lawyers speak English and have studied at foreign educational institutions.

   

  Unlike our competitors, all of our legal teams include Business Analysts, who are experts in software development. They work together with Junior and Middle lawyers on the legal product to ensure that we deliver a comprehensive solution. Should you have a complex issue, we engage a Senior Lawyer with more than five-years of expertise in supporting IT companies for complicated and atypical tasks. They conduct business analysis and dive into the financial aspects of doing business, such as integrating Fintech solutions, companies entering an IPO or ICO, and AML Compliance.

• Why should you choose Stalirov&Co over hiring in-house counsel?

  Over the past seven years, we have focused solely on IT law, specializing in legal solutions for complex and atypical IT products such as Fintech, SaaS, CRM, ERP systems, and others.

  Our years of experience have given us a deep knowledge base, allowing our IT lawyers to quickly develop legal products for new clients and provide comprehensive support for IT businesses.

  Our legal department engages a team of lawyers specialized in different areas, which lets us perform parallel tasks and give feedback on demand. For example, we have separate lawyers specializing in areas such as team onboarding, business structuring, Terms of Use and Privacy Policy development, and accounting support.

  Working with Stalirov&Co, you engage an entire legal department with our management and project support staff and our team of IT lawyers. Our General Legal Counsel will manage each project communicating directly with you and managing the tasks of the entire legal team. This simplifies communication, allows you to easily track the project’s progress and saves time.

  You choose how to engage with us:

  • Hourly subscription: contact when requested.
  • A subscription with a fixed monthly fee: continuous service support of IT lawyers.
• Which IT companies and products do we work with?

  Our clients are software development companies and digital agencies. We support the publishing of mobile and desktop applications, protect intellectual property rights, ensure compliance with consumer protection laws for the operation of E-commerce products, advise and regulate the activities of Fintech solutions, develop licenses for SaaS, reseller, and agency contracts for CRM and ERP systems.

  Here are some of our clients:

  • Game Development companies: Mioris LTD and Pacwyn.
  • Digital agency POINT2WEB.
  • Ecommerce: Flimcor and Sneakerstudio
  • IT products: Hypelitix and Insurancehunter.
• Where can you find our portfolio?

  The company has both an open and closed portfolio. You can read a detailed description of our IT lawyers’ tasks and examples of public works in the Cases section and see reviews on Clutch.

  A non-disclosure agreement protects the closed portfolio; we provide examples of closed cases during consultations to explain the benefits of a legal solution without disclosing the identity of our clients.

• What business goals can we help you achieve?

  Clients come to us for many reasons. Here are some examples:

  • Launching a new company or changing the country of doing business
  • Determining the rules for managing a joint business and delineating the responsibilities of the founders
  • Optimizing tax burdens
  • Structuring the contractual base with clients, teams, and partners
  • Safely hiring IT specialists and implementing work rules
  • Protecting confidential information and intellectual property
  • Developing Terms of Use and Privacy Policies to publish IT products and connect payment systems
  • Complying with GDPR/CCPA and local acts on personal data protection

About services

• How do we structure an IT business?

  Our IT lawyers regulate relations between partners and their business activities, including:

  • Differentiation of roles between founders and elimination of inefficient business processes
  • Calculating the tax burden and choosing favorable taxation conditions
  • Developing corporate documents, such as Term Sheets, Shareholder Agreements, and Partnership Agreements
  • Creating protocols to codify the decisions of the company’s management board.
• How do we help minimize the tax burden?

  IT companies ask us for advice on taxation of profits, team salaries, dividends and royalties. Our lawyers offer ways to minimize the tax burden, for example, by avoiding double taxation or choosing a country with a minimum or no VAT on IT services.

  We recommend and select countries with convenient conditions for running businesses. The USA, Estonia, Cyprus, England, and Poland are the most popular countries where we have launched IT companies over the past three years.

• What kind of contracts do we develop?

  We draw up local and international contracts with clients, teams and business partners. There are MSA, SDA, Dedicated team agreements, Term Sheets, Shareholder Agreements, Partnership Agreements, and digital contracts for traffic management. Each document includes an NDA/NCA/NSA agreement.

  We create a database of step-by-step contracts and assist managers in signing documents. Our clients get comprehensive solutions that implement uniform rules for team onboarding and simplify negotiations with the client.

• How do we support the development team onboarding/offboarding?

  We help build favorable relationships between the team and the IT company.

  • We carry out specialist due diligence at the team setup stage checking employers' recommendations.
  • We advise specialists on working conditions and explain the meaning of clauses in the contracts and how they work.
  • We draw up supplementary agreements to change the terms of contracts.
  • We sign NDAs, labor contracts, and agreements with independent contractors.
  • We provide consulting on taxation, processing and making payments via Payoneer, Wise, and USDT.
  • We hold specialists responsible for violations of the contract terms and assist team members offboarding.
• What documents do we prepare for E-commerce?

  For online stores and marketplaces, we develop Terms of Use, Privacy Policies, and Cookie Policies following the requirements of payment systems, GDPR / CCPA, and the laws of the countries where the online store or marketplace operates.

• What documents do we prepare before publishing mobile applications?

  We audit the application according to the requirements of the App Store and Google Play, identifying and eliminating problematic issues. 

  We draw up the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy, which are necessary for publishing mobile applications.

  We accompany IT companies during due diligence by the App Store and Google Play and negotiate on their behalf if the application is groundlessly blocked for non-compliance with the publishers' rules.

• How do Stalirov&Co lawyers help to be GDPR compliant?

  Companies that promote software products and provide IT services in the EU market must comply with regulations on personal data protection.

   

  We help those clients fill out GDPR questionnaires and develop the following GDPR documentation:

  • Data Processing Agreement
  • Information Security Policy
  • Access Control Policy
  • The international data transfer procedure
• Do we have experience supporting FinTech software product releases to the US market?

  Yes, our Senior lawyers have experience with launching public companies and attracting investors. We advise clients on FinCEN, FTC, SEC, GDPR/CCPA compliance and regulatory approvals.

  Our lawyers develop partnership agreements with banking and payment partners.

• What experience do we have in serving digital agencies in the US?

  We help set up teams of media buyers, targetologists, lead generators and other digital specialists. Our lawyers prepare agreements with advertisers and partners for traffic arbitrage and promotion, where we define vital commercial terms and monetization rules.

  Our lawyers audit advertising companies and content to comply with the requirements of CCPA/TCPA/CAN-SPAM.

• Do we manage disputes and represent clients in court?

  Before going to court, the Stalirov&Co team proposes an amicable settlement of conflicts with the customers, the team, partners, publishers and government agencies. We prepare claims and support negotiations.

  If this method is unsuccessful, we collect evidence of violations, prepare a claim, and support the client in arbitration or court.

Work organization and communication with IT lawyers

• Do we sign a legal service agreement?

  We sign an NDA and a legal service agreement with each client. The contract is accompanied by a customized statement of work with a detailed description of legal services, deadlines and costs. 

  Stalirov&Co is a Ukrainian limited liability company that will be a party to the contract.

• How are legal fees paid? What is the prepayment?

  The total cost of a project is divided into two payments:

  • 50% prepayment at the start of the project 
  • 50% payment upon acceptance of the work

   

  We accept the following types of payment:

  • in UAH to an account with Raiffeisen Bank
  • in foreign currency from non-residents to an account with Raiffeisen Bank
  • in currency to a business account with Payoneer
  • in currency to a Wise account
  • in USDT
• How can a client control the time lawyers spend on a task?

  The company works according to the Time &  Material system. Our lawyers' rates start from $50/hour. 

  To keep track of the team's time, we have implemented time tracking and provide reports on the time spent on each task. We will notify the client if the lawyer needs more hours.

  We can estimate the time required for the task and offer a range of prices, based on our experience with similar legal issues. 

• What platforms do Stalirov&Co lawyers use to communicate with clients?
  • Consulting is done through video meetings using Google Meet, Skype, or Zoom.
  • For correspondence we use corporate email accounts or instant messengers: Telegram, WhatsApp, or Slack.
  • The work is controlled through task managers, and the results are shared through Google Docs.

   

  However, we strive to communicate in a way that is most convenient for our clients. If your company uses a different platform, our lawyers can work within your system.

• How is the final product delivered?

  Coordination of a legal product takes place through written or video communication.

  First, we provide the client with access to the document but also include a written summary to highlight important points. The summary describes what functions the product performs and what tasks the lawyers carried out.

  If the client still has questions, we arrange a call to explain all product features.

• What are the guarantees of the IT lawyers' work? How does the company respond to comments and requests to finalize the document's text?

  We provide flexible client service and warranty support from three to six months, depending on the product, to correct errors related to the tasks in the statement of work. Warranty support does not apply in cases of legislation changes.

  Lawyers are ready to help if questions arise with implementing a legal solution. 

  Our goal is to write legal text in simple and accessible language. When a client has comments or requests for improvement, IT lawyers are ready to change, supplement, simplify and explain the solution.

  We do not make significant changes after the client accepts the results of services unless we see fundamental deviations from the rules and legislation. 

  Stalirov&Co will compensate for losses if our recommendations violate the law.