Jurisdictions worked in: South Africa and the United States of America
Languages fluent in: English

Ashleigh’s experience includes advising the following clients and drafting:

• City of Cape Town on the appointment of a carrier network service provider and sales partner, pursuant to the Broadband Infrastructure Programme, undertaken to restructure and optimise the utilisation of the City of Cape Town’s broadband network infrastructure.
• NCR Corporation on the intellectual property and information technology aspects of the acquisition of Altron TMT Proprietary Limited, ATM hardware and support business of ATMT’s Altron Managed Solutions division.
• Noodle Corporation on the intellectual property and information technology aspects of the acquisition of Hubble Studios, an e-learning company that develops custom online education content and technology.
• Undertaking due diligence investigations in relation to the transaction documents relating to technology, corporate and commercial matters generally including: (i) Ardagh Group S.A’s acquisition of Consol (Pty)Ltd for an equity value of ZAR 1billion; (ii) the acquisition of South Africa’s largest carrier, cloud and vendor data center provider; (iii) the due diligence conducted in anticipation of the listing of Coca-Cola Africa as a publicly traded company on the Amsterdam and Johannesburg stock exchange.
• Rain Networks (Pty) Ltd; Different Technology (Pty) Ltd; and Bluebean Software (Pty) Ltd. on software licenses and/ software as a service agreement.
• Mobile Telephone Networks (Proprietary) Limited, Ayo Holdings and Sasol South Africa Limited on transitional services agreements.
• Zara Retail (Pty) Ltd and Zara Home (Pty) Ltd on terms and conditions.
• Guccio Gucci S.P.A, on amending a sponsorship agreement for the sponsorship of Zeitz Mocca exhibition.
• Gattaca Plc, a UK based company on a trademark license agreement.
• Ally Financial Inc., a digital financial services company with USD 7 billion in assets, on IP and technology matters relating to the sale of Ally’s point-of-sale unsecured consumer lending business, including substantially all of the assets of Health Credit Services LLC.
• Nexus Pharmaceuticals on IP and technology matters relating to the sale of Nexus’ Pleasant Prairie injectable medicine manufacturing facility to Eli Lilly and Company.
• Laer AI Inc. a California-based company that provides an AI legal discovery product, on its customer license agreements, proof of concept agreements and reseller agreements.
• A major U.S. bank on use of Open-Source Datasets and Open-Source AI models for the development of AI products.
• A leading U.S telecommunications service provider on IP-related issues in AI deployment within the company and in externally facing products.
• Sisvel Corporation, a patent aggregator (representing 20 patent owners (including Dolby, General Electric, Philips, NTT Docomo, Orange, SK Telecom and Toshiba)) in licensing video codec patents to 16 technology companies.
• Global financial services company on IP and IT-related issues on the potential acquisition of a payments processing company.
• Telecommunications infrastructure company on IP and IT-related issues in the potential acquisition of an internet service provider focused on equipping businesses with data centres, network and voice services.
• Insurance and managed care company on IP and IT-related issues in the potential acquisition of a healthcare trading platform.