Alastair Mitton

Commercial (IT).

Alastair is a partner specialising in commercial IT and technology related matters and leads the firm’s Information Technology practice as well as its Fintech group. He has extensive experience in advising on large scale technology implementations, licensing, the use of cloud based solutions, outsourcing and development projects frequently in the financial services, insurance and telecoms sectors. Alastair also advises clients on data protection issues most commonly relating to the use and transfer of customer data (particularly in the context of the type of project referred to above) and has experience in the exploitation of intellectual property rights, particularly relating to software development, the use of open source software and websites. This also involves the support of corporate transactions in these areas, together with advising on linked transitional services arrangements.

Alastair wrote and maintains the Thomson Reuters 'PLC' practice note on 'Outsourcing in the Insurance Sector' and publishes other similar work for Lexis PSL.  He is also regularly involved in organising and speaking at Fintech related events in the UK and US.