Technology and Media Experience

Acted for a consortium of global IT companies on the UK National Health Service's £6 billion outsourcing (the largest civilian IT outsourcing in the world)
Led teams which outsourced the entire IT operations of a global Internet bank and structured the European IT operations of another
Acted for the UK Cable Protection Committee, a trade association of the owners and operators of submarine cables (British Telecom, Cable & Wireless, Level 3, AT&T and others), including on an investigation by the competition watchdog
Licensed software and created other arrangements for the transmission of voice and data, affording global, real time access to current market data and analysis
Advised a software developer enhancing and licensing software for the online trading of swaps
Provided contractual and other legal advice to a UK company providing e-invoicing in the US
Outsourced the online services of a major UK insurance broker
Advised extensively on disaster recovery, data protection and the security aspects of online operations
Led a team advising a major US outsourcing and business process re-engineering services company on the offshoring of £40 million of software development and data processing to India