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Harbottle & Lewis LLP

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A 'brilliant team' comprised of 'total experts', Harbottle & Lewis LLP is well regarded by clients for the breadth of its TMT capabilities, spanning digital, data, and AI matters, to name a few areas of focus. Key names to note include practice head Emma Wright, and Agatha Claridge - 'expert, thoughtful and totally calm no matter what comes up.'

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Testimonials

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  • ‘Brilliant team - total experts, consistently thoughtful about the commerical/risk issues our business faces. It's not just legal niceties and abstract risks. Always willing to think about different ways to engage us, how to keep costs down and provide deep support.’

  • ‘Agatha stands out; she gives clients great confidence, she's expert, thoughtful and totally calm no matter what comes up, including endless changes and moves from EE and our customers. She's responsive and helpful at all time and works hard!’

  • ‘The team are collaborative, approachable and extremely supportive of our needs. We have a number of different telecoms deals running at any one time. Harbottle consistently give us fast, informative responses when we need them.'

  • ‘We work with Emma Wright and Agatha Claridge. Both are really easy to engage with and focussed on what's right for our business. We find both Emma and Agi work extremely well as a team and as individuals. They both understand our business and are direct, clear and good value to help shake out what we need to do from a contracting point of view. Quite often this clarity helps the business make decisions quicker, clearly demonstrating how they are adding value to our deals and why we like working with them.’

Lawyers

Leading individuals

Emma Wright

Emma Wright

Harbottle & Lewis LLP

Emma Wright is a partner and leads the Technology, Data & Digital team at Harbottle & Lewis, where she works with clients from all parts of the tech ecosystem solving their regulatory issues, helping them achieve their commercial objectives or deliver their digital transformation goals. Emma is also co-founder and director at the not-for-profit Interparliamentary Forum on Emerging Technologies, which has built a global network of legislators considering the regulation of AI and other emerging technologies in countries from all parts of the world. She sits on the Unesco Women4EthicalAI forum of global experts on AI and is working with UNESCO on the global implementation of its Recommendation on Ethics in AI. She was listed by Computer Weekly as one of the Top 20 Most Influential Women in Tech for the last two years.

Practice head

The lawyer(s) leading their teams.

Emma Wright

Other key lawyers

Agatha Claridge