Three privacy regimes. Two antitrust probes.
One spreadsheet.
Technology companies face rapid-growth legal demands — IP licensing disputes, data privacy obligations across every jurisdiction, antitrust scrutiny, and M&A at speed. With sprawling outside counsel relationships and legal spend growing faster than headcount, structured cost management isn't optional — it's operational infrastructure. SAP, IBM, and Intel manage their outside counsel spend on PERSUIT. Not because legal procurement is glamorous. Because when you operate at global scale, every unmanaged engagement is a governance gap waiting to be found.
Three pressures
every tech GC
is managing at once.
These aren't generic legal department problems. They're specific to technology — shaped by IP complexity, regulatory fragmentation across global markets, and the pace of growth that makes legal spend scale faster than legal headcount.
PERSUIT was built for exactly this environment. Not adapted from a general procurement tool. Built for the velocity, complexity, and global scale of a technology company legal function.
IP licensing & standards-essential patents
FRAND disputes, SEP licensing negotiations, open-source compliance, and patent portfolio management. Technology companies face a constant stream of IP-related legal work that requires specialized counsel across multiple jurisdictions. When licensing disputes can reshape your product roadmap, counsel selection can't be an afterthought.
Data privacy & regulatory fragmentation
GDPR, CCPA, the EU AI Act, Brazil's LGPD, India's DPDPA — data privacy regulation is multiplying faster than most legal teams can staff for. Managing privacy counsel across every jurisdiction you operate in requires a system, not a spreadsheet. PERSUIT structures the selection and cost management of privacy work at global scale.
Antitrust scrutiny & deal complexity
Tech M&A faces more regulatory scrutiny than almost any other sector. Antitrust review timelines are lengthening, multi-jurisdiction filings are standard, and deal complexity is increasing. Your outside counsel costs on a single transaction can run into eight figures — which means competitive sourcing and fee governance aren't nice-to-haves.
Counsel management
that keeps pace
with your growth.
Most tech legal functions have a roster of preferred firms. Far fewer have a system that connects counsel selection to cost management, performance tracking, and spend visibility across every matter type.
PERSUIT turns your outside counsel relationships into a managed, competitive process — with structured responses for every engagement, documented selection criteria, and real-time spend visibility across licensing, privacy, antitrust, and M&A work.
Structure licensing dispute counsel
IP licensing matters start with a defined scope — patent families, jurisdictions, dispute type, and budget parameters — before a firm is engaged. Qualified firms respond with structured responses, enabling comparison on experience, strategy, and fees rather than relationships.
Manage privacy compliance at scale
GDPR, CCPA, AI Act compliance work spans dozens of jurisdictions. PERSUIT enables structured competitive selection by regulation, jurisdiction, and matter type — so your privacy counsel is chosen on expertise and value, not just geographic convenience.
Govern patent portfolio costs
Patent prosecution, licensing, and defense spend can sprawl across hundreds of firms. PERSUIT provides portfolio-wide visibility, billing rule enforcement, and firm performance tracking — so you know what you're spending, where, and whether it's competitive.
Track every engagement decision
Every firm selection — who was invited, who responded, why the winning firm was chosen — is documented in PERSUIT. The audit trail exists because it's built into the workflow, giving your CFO and procurement team the governance data they expect.
AI governance compliance.
For the tech teams
building what's next.
The EU AI Act, emerging US AI executive orders, and global AI governance frameworks are creating a new category of regulatory compliance work for technology companies. Managing outside counsel for AI regulation — from risk classification to conformity assessment — requires the same structured approach you apply to any other high-stakes legal matter.
PERSUIT enables tech legal teams to competitively source AI governance counsel, manage compliance advisory engagements, and maintain full audit trails — with the enterprise security documentation your InfoSec and procurement teams require.
Access the Trust Center →The matter types that shape your spend.
Outside counsel spend in technology is driven by a small number of high-complexity matter categories. Here's how PERSUIT changes the economics of each one.
IP & Patent Licensing
SEP negotiations, FRAND disputes, patent portfolio licensing, and open-source compliance. IP work in tech requires deep specialization and spans multiple jurisdictions. PERSUIT structures the competitive process so you select counsel on expertise and value, not incumbency.
Data Privacy & Compliance
GDPR, CCPA, AI Act, LGPD, DPDPA — privacy regulation is multiplying. Managing privacy counsel across every jurisdiction you operate in at competitive rates requires structured sourcing. PERSUIT makes the cost of compliance visible before it becomes an invoice surprise.
Antitrust & Competition
Merger clearance, conduct investigations, platform regulation — antitrust work in tech is high-profile and high-cost. PERSUIT's competitive process surfaces market rates for your specific matter type, and fee governance keeps eight-figure engagements under control.
M&A and Venture
Tech M&A moves fast — acqui-hires, strategic acquisitions, venture investments, and divestitures. PERSUIT's structured responses mean scope and fees are agreed before work starts, with billing rules that enforce what was negotiated. No more retroactive fee disputes after close.
Security that passes
your review,
not just ours.
Technology companies run rigorous third-party vendor security assessments — driven by data sensitivity, IP protection, and the scrutiny that comes with managing vendors at scale. PERSUIT has passed the security reviews of SAP, IBM, and Intel. Here's what their teams found.
Information Security Management
Certified against the current version of the international ISMS standard. Independently audited. Not self-assessed.
Audited Controls
SOC 1 Type 2 attested. SOC 2 report available under NDA via the PERSUIT Trust Center — alongside pentest report, network diagram, and data flow documentation.
Cloud Security
Cloud Security Alliance STAR certified. Hosted on Google Cloud. SecurityScorecard: A. UpGuard: 865/950. Third-party scores, independently assigned.
SSO & Role-Based Permissions
SSO support. Role-based access controls. Full audit logging on every platform action. Your matter data is strictly isolated — no cross-customer data access, ever.
BC/DR & Data Governance
Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery policy in place with tested contingency planning. Encryption policy, acceptable use policy, and full data chain of custody documentation available.
See what technology legal teams are achieving.
We'll show you what a PERSUIT demo looks like for a technology legal function — IP licensing, privacy compliance, antitrust matters, M&A governance, and what the CFO conversation looks like when you have the data.