Bristows LLP

Commercial IT

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.

Qualified 2009 Partner 2020

LLB (Hons) Law, University College London