Carson McDowell‘s cross-disciplinary team acts for prominent clients in a range of contentious and non-contentious matters. The department has particular strength in the area of cybersecurity, and provides thought leadership in this area. Litigator Declan Magee co-leads alongside Dawn McKnight, who is a cybersecurity expert with experience in the negotiation of ICT contracts and software development agreements. Peter Guzhar is a key contact for contentious commercial, corporate, and IT matters. Senior associate Helen Cosgrove specialises in contractual telecommunications disputes.
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‘The Carson McDowell team bring solutions to problems and have a range of resources that they can call on to cover all potential eventualities. The team work with us collaboratively to ensure we deliver the best outcomes in a legally compliant way.’
‘Each of the individuals in the Carson McDowell team have their own particular strengths and capabilities which we as a client require.’
Key clients
- Education Authority
- Fibrus Networks Limited
- Belfast Harbour Commissioners
- Translink
- Ubloquity Limited
- Ulster University and Innovation Ulster Limited
- Queens University Belfast
- AquaQ Analytics Limited
- STATSports Group Limited
- Veriteer Ltd
Work highlights
- Advising the Education Authority on its procurement of strategic partner services and school management system solution for the Education Information Solutions Programme (to replace C2K).
- Advising Firmus Energy on its contract with a new cloud-hosting provider and associated SaaS arrangements.
- Advising Ubloquity on its global customer contracts which are drafted to reflect the blockchain technology which sits behind Ubloquity’s services.
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Peter is a partner in the commercial litigation team at Carson McDowell and heads up the firm's contentious IP practice. Peter has extensive experience of advising and acting in company, shareholder and partnership disputes to include minority shareholder petitions, breach of directors’ duties actions and partnership dissolution actions. Peter’s breadth of experience also includes defending and prosecuting intellectual property actions in the High Court in Northern Ireland to include a number of high value and complex patent infringement cases for clients in the technology and manufacturing sectors; advising and acting in copyright and trademark infringement matters, and further misappropriation and misuse of confidential information actions which have necessitated applications for injunctive relief to include mandatory injunctions and search and seizure orders. Peter also has experience of advising in complex contractual disputes relating to supply and manufacturing defect issues and has defended a number of Commercial Agency Regulations claims brought by agents. In addition, Peter has successfully prosecuted a judicial review action on behalf of interested parties against a Health Trust in respect of the failure to properly consult on the proposed closure of a hospital facility.
Practice head
The lawyer(s) leading their teams.
Dawn McKnight, Declan Magee