Dundas Lawyers® provides software escrow agency services. Escrow arrangements are an effective risk management tool to ensure that transacting parties fulfil their contractual obligations, while preventing potential disputes from arising.
As an independent third party, Dundas Lawyers® is well-placed to hold and maintain escrow materials for the benefit and security of all parties to a transaction. We understand the practical and legal requirements relating to the storage of material in all its forms. We can receive and hold escrow materials in our secure facility until the parties to a transaction agreeing to release the escrow material, or upon the release conditions in the escrow agreement being met. As the escrow agent, we provide the escrow agreement, the escrow account and deposits to the escrow account, as part of our services.
Why choose Dundas Lawyers®?
Having exerted Blood Sweat and Years® since April 2010 we are the team you want on your side for the long term to act as the ‘bodyguard’ for your business to complete legal forensic investigations and case preparation. Some of the reasons client’s choose Dundas Lawyers® include:
- our Uncommon business acumen;
- our Uncommon expertise in transactional, compliance and litigious matters;
- our Uncommon expertise forensic case preparation;
- our Uncommon customer focus;
- the fact that we don’t just know law, we know business!
- how we leverage our Uncommon Nous® to provide client solutions.
Considering getting a lawyer to advise your business?
For a confidential, no obligation initial telephone call to find out how we can help your business gain an uncommon advantage in software escrow services please phone our team on either 1300 386 529 or 07 3221 0013.
Malcolm Burrows B.Bus.,MBA.,LL.B.,LL.M.,MQLS.
Legal Practice Director
T: +61 7 3221 0013 (preferred)
M: +61 419 726 535
E: mburrows@dundaslawyers.com.au
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Legislation
- Competition and Consumer Act 2010 (Cth)
- Competition and Consumer Regulations 2010 (Cth)
- Copyright Act 1968 (Cth)
- Copyright Regulations 2017 (Cth)
- Corporations Act 2001 (Cth)
- Corporations Regulations 2001 (Cth).
- Privacy Act 1988 (Cth)
- Privacy Regulation 2013 (Cth)
- .au Domain Administration Rules: Licensing
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Recent Federal Court decisions regarding software escrow services
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Mokhtari v Piacentini & Son PL [2025] FCA 26
PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE – application for orders for preservation of documents – where orders made referring the issue of the extent and nature of discovery for consideration at a conference by a registrar – where applicant alleges that system updates to computing software used by the respondent may compromise the discovery process – whether likely…
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Gattani v Digital Edge Technologies Pty Ltd (in administration) [2025] FCA 199 (17 March 2025)
PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE – application by the plaintiff for freezing and ancillary orders concerning the assets of the second defendant and third parties – plaintiff contends that the second defendant: (1) wrongly failed to transfer to the plaintiff the issued shares in the first defendant; (2) diverted funds belonging to the first defendant to the…
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Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc v Anderson (No 2) [2024] FCA 1459
COPYRIGHT – circumvention devices – application by copyright owner under ss 116AN and 116AO of Copyright Act 1968 (Cth) (“the Act”) – interpretation of relevant definitions in s 10(1) of the Act – “technological protection measure” – “access control technological protection measure” – “controls access” – whether device, product technology or component requires application…
