Commercial contracts

Oliver Bray

Senior Partner.  Oliver is Senior Partner at RPC and a recognised specialist in commercial law. He has over 25 years' experience with particular expertise in commercial contracts, advertising and marketing, regulatory investigations/proceedings, data protection, consumer, intellectual property and digital. He is ranked in the Legal 500's "Hall of Fame" and "Top Ranked" by Chambers and Partners for both commercial and advertising/marketing. He works with some of the world's highest profile brands and digital platforms, providing advice on all aspects their commercial operations and consumer engagement.  He is the co-editor of the leading text book ‘Advertising Law and Regulation’ (Bloomsbury Professional). He is Chairman of the City of London Law Society Commercial Law Committee, a member of the Ad Law Group and an editorial board member of Digital Business Lawyer and Entertainment Law Review. He was awarded "Best Client Partner" at the 2016 British Legal Awards and is recognised by Acritas for outstanding client service.

Marly Didizian

Marly specialises in all types of global sourcing, supply chain and technology arrangements. She has particular expertise in complex business carve-outs and works across sectors including healthcare, consumer, financial sponsors, media, telecoms, financial services and data-driven businesses. She is also the global co-head of the firm’s Healthcare and Life Sciences sector. Marly supports clients throughout the full lifecycle of their most important transformations and projects, from initial structuring and procurement to contentious and non-contentious renegotiations and terminations. Her deals often involve cutting-edge uses of technology, data and supply chain, often within complex regulatory frameworks. She is also experienced in media and broadcasting transactions and related regulation, having been seconded to both the BBC and Ofcom. Marly is ranked in MergerLinks’ top 5 leading female M&A lawyers in EMEA specialising in commercial carve-outs, and was voted one of the Hot 100 Lawyers by The Lawyer for her sourcing work.

Carol Osborne

Partner and Global Department Leader - Corporate and Finance Transactions

Tom Purton

Partner. Tom combines over 25 years of experience, business acumen and legal expertise in a broad-based commercial practice. His main focus is on joint ventures, outsourcing and commercial contracts (including supply, franchise, brewing, agency, sponsorship, marketing and distribution agreements). Tom’s core expertise is advising on complex, valuable, innovative and long term commercial contracts which often underpin the client’s business and revenue. He has extensive experience across multiple sectors including retail, leisure and hospitality, real estate, financial services and business support services. He also uses his commercial expertise to support M&A and other deals on transformation and separation projects. Tom is widely acknowledged in the market as a trusted business and strategic adviser who is “pragmatic, commercial and knows his stuff.” He is the author of the UK chapter on outsourcing in PLC’s Global Guide and the Chambers Global Guide and a panellist and speaker at numerous conferences and events.

Mark Dewar

Kate Jeffery

Senior Associate

Rachael Morris

Rachael is an experienced technology and outsourcing lawyer who advises on all aspects of non-contentious technology law IP related issues, including commercial contracts, software development, website development, IT outsourcing and IP licensing. Rachael advises clients in both the public and private sectors, and has significant experience working on large-scale high-profile public sector outsourcings. She recently advised a number of UK government departments on the use of the Cabinet Office's lean procurement methodology, and has spoken at the Whitehall & Industry Group's Public/Private Procurement Forum on its application and impact.

Chris Rennie

Charles Buckworth

Partner

Ciara Cullen

Partner. An IP and technology litigation specialist, Ciara is dual qualified in England & Wales and the Republic of Ireland and has acted in several international disputes. Having acted in several disputes before the English and Irish Courts, the UK IPO, the ICC and CIETAC, Ciara's practice also has a significant international element and sees her advising clients on multi-jurisdictional disputes across the full range of IP rights including trade marks / passing off, copyright, patents, design rights, breach of confidential information and IP licence disputes. On the non-contentious side, Ciara supports clients on brand protection and counterfeit issues, IP projects and licensing, sponsorship/endorsement arrangements, franchising and commercial contracts.  She also provides specialist advice on IP and technology acquisitions and disposals. Clients range from luxury goods, retail and food to FMCG, technology, media, life sciences, insurance and financial services. Ciara has been published in several leading journals including Managing IP, e-Commerce Law and Policy, SCL, LexisNexis and ILO and regularly speaks at client and industry conferences. Ciara is a member of the editorial team that produces the annual TerraLex Cross-Border Copyright Guide.

Kelly Holmes

Partner

Georgina Kon

Specialise in advising both public and private sector clients on complex domestic and international IT, outsourcing and information governance matters (including data privacy and freedom of information matters). Shortlisted for Legal Advisor of the Year 2016 by the National Outsourcing Association.

Megan Paul

Megan is a partner in the Commercial team and has in-depth experience in technology, communications and large-scale complex outsourcing transactions, both locally and internationally. Megan also advises on the commercial aspects of private equity and M&A transactions.

Penny Powell

Counsel

Caroline Young

Caroline specialises in commercial contracts, with a particular focus on technology and intellectual property. She works with clients across a broad range of sectors, from TMT and FinTech to life sciences, retail and insurance. Caroline has considerable experience working on the commercialisation of IP and a broad range of technology contracts, including complex licensing and distribution models, development, support and other IT services agreements, IP strategies and exploitation, procurement and outsourcing. Caroline also advises on data protection, consumer law and e-commerce. Caroline is admitted to practise in England and Wales.

Henrietta Baker

Henrietta is a partner in and Head of Dentons' Technology Media and Telecoms (TMT) practice for the UK, Ireland and Middle East. Henrietta leads one of the strongest and largest specialist TMT practices with 70+ dedicated partners and fee earners based in England and Wales, Scotland, the Republic of Ireland and the United Arab Emirates. The team provides strategic counsel to some of the largest global businesses, advising on high-value projects and matters, many of which are critical to ongoing business operations and future strategic growth. Henrietta specializes in advising on technology and telecoms transactions, strategic sourcing and commercial contracts, with particular strengths in the energy, technology, aviation, manufacturing and financial services sectors. Drawing on a strong background of cutting-edge deals, Henrietta brings a wealth of experience to advising clients on legal strategy, policy and negotiation, supporting companies at all levels of the technology ecosystem, as well as non-technology companies procuring solutions. In particular, she has extensive experience in advising on communications procurement, ERP implementation, system integration, software development, cloud services (including SaaS, PaaS and IaaS), cybersecurity, AI, IoT, e-commerce, application development and maintenance, and networks projects. In addition, she regularly advises on a large number of diverse commercial arrangements, including global distribution arrangements, transitional services arrangements, business process outsourcing, manufacturing contracts, arrangements for payment technologies and concession agreements.

Chloe Forster

Sophie Lessar

Sarah Lima

Sarah is a TMT partner in Dentons' London office. She is an experienced technology and outsourcing lawyer, advising clients in both the public and private sectors, particularly within regulated sectors, and has significant experience working on large-scale, high-profile, public sector outsourcings. Sarah advises on all aspects of non-contentious technology and IP-related issues, including commercial contracts, software development, IT and business process outsourcing, FinTech, website development and IP licensing.

Duncan Blaikie

Partner

Jo Farmer

Partner: Jo jointly leads the firm's Commercial group and advises clients on their advertising and marketing campaigns and exploitation of intellectual property rights and content. Her clients include brand owners, content creators, communications agencies and media platforms. Jo is recognised as a leading lawyer in the field of advertising and brand reputation in legal directories.

Dan Holland

A commercial lawyer with a focus on outsourcing, manufacturing and supply chain issues. Dan has 20 years' experience in advising on a wide variety of commercial relationships, from day-to-day trading activities to one-off projects and strategic alliances. Dan's practice is broadly split between services and supply chain issues, including procurement and supply at all stages of production, and outsourcing of both IT and BPO services. His practice is particularly focussed on the life sciences, manufacturing, transport and financial services sectors. His recent outsourcing experience includes the provision of hosted software and managed services to provide core banking function in a regulated environment to banks in the UK, as well as provision of other payment technology. On the BPO side, he has advised on the provision of crew, catering and lounge services on Eurostar trains. In life sciences, Dan regularly advises on the manufacturing and distribution of both API and finished products in the UK and Europe. He has particular knowledge of centralised procurement structures, consignment manufacturing arrangements and all routes to market for goods. Dan’s practice covers clients in the UK as well as those based throughout Europe, the Middle East and the US. He worked in Paris for a number of years and speaks fluent French.

Marcus Pearl

Partner and Global Practice Group Leader – Technology, Commercial and Government Affairs

Matthew Warren

Matthew is the head of Bristows’ Commercial IP group and advises on transactions involving the development, exploitation and transfer of intellectual property rights.His scientific background is of particular assistance when negotiating and advising on transactions involving new technologies. He has advised on a number of successful global licensing programmes for the exploitation of new technologies and has also advised in relation to international patent pooling arrangements.He works across many sectors but has particular experience in the pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, medtech, electronics, software, telecoms, petrochemical, cleantech and other industrial sectors. Matthew's experience in negotiating commercial contracts for pharmaceutical, biotechnology and medtech clients includes technology licensing agreements, R&D collaboration agreements, drug development and licensing agreements, clinical trial agreements and option agreements for licences. He also advises pharmaceutical and biotechnology clients on the commercial and intellectual property law aspects of manufacturing, distribution, co-promotion and marketing agreements.The negotiation of agreements to resolve disputes involving intellectual property rights forms a significant part of Matthew’s practice. This has included global settlements to end litigation across multiple jurisdictions involving complex intellectual property, licensing and financial arrangements.He advises on the intellectual property aspects of setting up joint ventures and other collaborations including in relation to the ownership and licensing of intellectual property and improvements. Matthew has particular experience advising on intellectual property issues relating to technical standards including FRAND terms for licensing standard essential patents.Matthew was involved in setting up the IP Transactions Course at the UCL Faculty of Laws, University College London and lectures on the course.

Scott Singer

Scott is the Head of Dentons' Corporate and Commercial division. He focuses on commercial contracts, IT and data privacy law and is directory-ranked in all of these areas. Scott is particularly well known for his work in the retail sector, where he advises a number of the UK's best known names on the high street. Scott is ranked in Chambers 2017 as a leading practitioner for commercial contracts, which recognizes he "has considerable experience across a range of commercial matters. He has a reputation for handling strategically significant large-scale agreements for market-leading and brand-name clients." Scott has acted for many household names on large-scale commercial deals involving supply of goods and services, joint ventures, distribution agreements, transportation, logistics, marketing agreements, design and manufacturing agreements and consultancy agreements. Scott is a member of Dentons' Band 1-ranked IT and Telecoms team, with an emphasis on IT, outsourcing, payments transactions, software law and the exploitation of databases. He was previously a computer programmer and draws on this background alongside 20 years' experience advising in this field to enable him to share with his clients not just technical knowledge but also insight into what is contractually achievable in the market. Scott focuses especially closely on deals involving payments, cloud services, Software as a Service (SaaS), agile development and deals with major technology vendors and has a keen understanding of current market positions. He is also very experienced in deals for major projects and IT outsourcings. Scott has particular capabilities in data privacy law and is one of the partners in Dentons' Band 1-ranked team. He has advised numerous data controllers and data subjects on all aspects of data privacy, including GDPR compliance, data breach, cyber risk, global data transfers, customer data and consents, data sharing, sale and purchase of databases, subject access rights, employee monitoring and data protection policies. Scott is recognized in directories "for his focus on practical solutions" (Legal 500 2017).