England - South East • TMT (technology, media and telecoms)
Boyes Turner
Leveraging its international experience, Boyes Turner supports on both contentious and non-contentious mandates, having been particularly active in data protection and IT law. Sarah Williamson oversees the team and is a specialist within the media and creative industries; she also often works alongside high-profile client, the Guardian. Helen Dobson is knowledgeable of IP rights pertaining to the retail, software, telecoms, and transport sectors. All of the individuals that have been mentioned are located in Reading.
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Testimonials
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‘The team has excellent knowledge on open source licensing, source code software licensing and complex OEM arrangements. Several team members have completed secondments in the telco sectors.’
‘Helen Dobson is capable of closing in depth frameworks within the telco sector.’
Key clients
- Culligan / Waterlogic Group Companies
- Guardian News & Media Ltd
- Wind River Systems Inc
- Virtualstock Limited
- Netmore Group
- First Hydrogen Limited
- Novatiq Solutions Limited
- Higher Concept Software
- Lee & Thompson LLP
Work highlights
- Advised Culligan on the agreement for a global ERP software solution across its group companies.
- Advised on the framework agreement with Yorkshire Water to provide advanced metering infrastructure, LoRaWAN network and data as a service across new housing developments in the Yorkshire region.
- Advised on commercial terms for technical and go-to-market collaborations using Wind River’s Linux-based software.
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Boyes Turner
Sarah is a partner and head of the Commercial & Technology team specialising in Digital & Technology. Sarah has extensive experience advising on a broad range of commercial contracts including those with an international aspect. She specialises in technology and digital media and acts for well-known online publishers. She also has experience in marketing and advertising having worked at a niche London law firm for the creative and media sectors and has advised a number of creative and digital agencies and online platforms. Sarah acts as quasi in-house counsel for a number of her clients acting either as sole legal counsel or as an extension to their legal team, providing pragmatic and commercial legal advice. Sarah is also an experienced data protection lawyer and holds the Certified Information Privacy Professional/Europe (CIPP/EU) certification with the IAPP.
Practice head
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Sarah Williamson