Maja Sever

• • Lead negotiation and drafting of complex commercial R&D and technology collaboration agreements across nearly 30 specialized research departments, managing a high volume of concurrent projects with international industry stakeholders.

• • Act as escalation counsel in high-stakes negotiations, taking over stalled discussions to secure commercially viable outcomes while balancing IP, licensing and regulatory considerations.

• • Structured complex risk allocation and technology transfer frameworks in cross-border R&D and software collaborations, architecting IP ownership, liability exposure and staged commercialization models to preserve long-term strategic leverage while enabling immediate market deployment.

• • Structure and negotiate IP ownership, commercialization and data-use frameworks in cross-border technology projects.

• • Support software and technology commercialization initiatives, including SaaS-related agreements and service models.

• • Partner closely with R&D leadership to align contractual strategy with innovation and market deployment objectives.

• • Contribute to reduction of negotiation cycle time through template optimization and structured risk positioning.

• • Conducted patent checks and developed IP protection strategy.

• • Advised on the commercial exploitation of software solutions, including licensing and service models.

• • Performed legal forensics in M&A transactions.

• • Provided regulatory compliance advice in complex software-driven commercial matters.

• • Drafted bespoke commercial agreements for software products and services and supported negotiations.

• • Led legal strategy for SaaS and PaaS business models in the marine technology sector, including hardware-integrated and data-driven service models.

• • Negotiated licensing, software development and enterprise client agreements.

• • Structured IP protection strategy and supported product development decisions.

• • Built contract templates and scalable legal processes to support growth.

• • Acted as legal partner to management on commercial and strategic initiatives.

• • Established contractual framework and scalable templates; following completion of core setup, the ongoing legal workload no longer required a full-time in-house role.