The Tughans technology team assists a number of clients in the technology, healthcare, and robotics clients. Department co-lead Adrian O’Connell provides ‘well laid out, and easy to understand’ transactional advice, while managing partner Patrick Brown heads the disputes side of the practice. Other key contacts include Andrew Kirke, who often leads matters concerning licensing terms for healthcare and software companies and Paul Eastwood, who provides strategic and commercial advice, such as advising upon and negotiating technology supply agreements. On the associate level, Aoife Murray provides support on a variety of the practice’s matters, including assisting clients with updating and preparing the terms for their IT services.

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  • 'Great range of advice and expertise internally, giving us confidence for a wide range of queries and services.'
  • 'Extremely friendly individuals who offer really helpful support and appropriate advice. In particular would like to thank Paul Eastwood for his timely and thorough support.'
  • 'I have worked with Adrian O'Connell on a number of assignments, and he brings a rare quality in a lawyer in that he brings commercial considerations into his advice. The advice is well laid out, and easy to understand, and directly related to the contracts in questions.'

Key clients

  • Invest Northern Ireland
  • Techstart Ventures LLP
  • Business Growth Fund
  • Kernel Capital
  • Randox Group
  • Fusion Antibodies plc
  • OCO Global Limited
  • CIS Oncology
  • B-Secur Limited
  • First Derivatives PLC

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Practice head

The lawyer(s) leading their teams.

Adrian O’Connell, Patrick Brown

Other key lawyers

Andrew Kirke, Paul Eastwood, Aoife Murray