Vik Khurana > Bristows LLP > London, England > Lawyer Profile
Bristows LLP Offices
100 VICTORIA EMBANKMENT
LONDON
EC4Y 0DH
England
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Vik Khurana
Work Department
Commercial IT
Position
Vik is a commercial technology lawyer, advising clients in a diverse range of sectors. Vik specialises in all aspects of commercial technology law and regularly leads complex and strategic technology projects. In particular, Vik advises on outsourcing, software development and licensing, digital transformation, cloud computing, e-commerce, and other arrangements involving the use or exploitation of IP and technology.
In addition, Vik has a growing practice in emerging disruptive technologies like artificial intelligence, advising both high-growth and established businesses as they develop, deploy and scale new products and services in the market.
Vik acts for clients in a diverse range of sectors, including technology, media, government, healthcare and financial services. Having spent significant time seconded to clients – including a global energy company and the Singapore arm of a major telecoms provider – Vik has a keen understanding of the needs of clients’ legal and business teams.
Projects Vik has worked on include:
- a £1 billion global customer operations outsourcing involving cutting-edge robotic process automation technology;
- an agile software development project for a government department relating to critical national security infrastructure;
- a core banking platform design, build and implementation project for a world-renowned software vendor;
- negotiations with NHS Trusts on behalf of a healthtech provider for the provision of cloud-based medical diagnostics platforms; and
- Genomics England’s procurement of bioinformatics services relating to its 100,000 Genomes Project.
Career
Qualified 2009
Partner 2020
Education
LLB (Hons) Law, University College London
Lawyer Rankings
London > TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Fintech: corporate and commercial
(Next Generation Partners)Bristows LLP is a key port of call for fintechs, challenger banks, and multinational companies, which seek the firm’s technological expertise in relation to emerging tech such as AI, robotics and DLT. Vik Khurana heads up the team, and excels in outsourcing and technology transaction work. Toby Crick has considerable experience of running global IT and outsourcing projects. Marc Dautlich is a key contact for work at the intersection of technology and data protection, while Julia Cockroft is particularly well versed in the intricacies of tax in the metaverse.
London > TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Artificial intelligence
With a ‘highly responsive’ approach and ‘deep expertise in AI’, Bristows LLP consistently represents major companies and start-ups in acquiring IP rights for new AI-based inventions, with the ‘truly excellent’ team co-head Vik Khurana being an experienced commercial technology expert. Chris Holder also co-leads, being a specialist IT outsourcing lawyer, Mark Watts heads the firm’s data protection group, while Anna Cook concentrates on litigation surrounding software licensing. Claire Smith primarily focuses on the life sciences sphere, and both Charlie Hawes and Anneke Pol are also highlighted as key members of the practice.
Lawyer Rankings
- Next Generation Partners London > TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Fintech: corporate and commercial
- Artificial intelligence London > TMT (technology, media and telecoms)
- Fintech: corporate and commercial London > TMT (technology, media and telecoms)
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Risk advisory > Data protection, privacy and cybersecurity
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Intellectual property: patents (contentious and non-contentious)
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Intellectual property: trade marks, copyright and design
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > IT and telecoms
- Industry focus > Life sciences and healthcare
- Corporate and commercial > M&A: Smaller Deals, £10m-£100m
- Industry focus > TMT
Firm Rankings
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Artificial intelligence
- Corporate and commercial > Commercial contracts
- Real estate > Commercial property: corporate occupiers
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Media: Advertising & marketing
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Media: Digital content & social
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Media: Film & TV
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > PATMA: Trade mark attorneys
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Reputation management
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: mid-market
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Fintech: corporate and commercial
- Dispute resolution > Competition litigation
- Corporate and commercial > EU and competition
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate tax
- Corporate and commercial > Venture capital
- Employment > Employers