Digital Regulation and Technology Projects

Our global technology team is one of the largest and most experienced in the world. Our practice offers individual lawyers with deep specialism in providing regulatory, commercial and contentious advice across the broad range of issues affecting technology: AI intelligence, big data, online safety, agile contracting, and more. 

We deliver pragmatic advice that can be operationalised. Working within a leading, global, full-service firm also enables us to deliver multi-disciplinary teams that provide consistent and coherent global advice on related competition, ESG, employment and other issues.

• A number of high-profile clients: advising on responsible AI programmes, often within the framework of broader EU Digital Package compliance programmes, and on commercial terms for the implementation of AI and generative AI tools.
• A number of platform providers: advising on digital reforms, including on compliance with the DSA, Online Safety Act, AI Act, Data Act, risk assessments, responses to RFIs and more.
• Barclays: advising on the development of a number of IT platforms, including a corporate pensions portal supported by two major insurers and a flexible benefits platform offering a variety of insurance products.
• One of the “Big Four”: advising on several aspects of the evolution of its IT strategy including its global approach to cloud agreements through an innovative and transformational alliance with Google Cloud.
• Sainsbury’s: advising on the outsourcing of its data centres and other IT requirements involving a ground-breaking IT securitisation financing structure worth in excess of £3.5bn.
• Nestlé: advising on its ‘lighthouse’ digital warehouse transformation project, which involved the sourcing of the design, development and ongoing management and service provision of a new ‘intelligent’ UK logistics and distribution centre with third party logistics supplier, XPO.
• Vodafone: advising in relation to its strategic collaboration with IBM, which will allow the two companies to jointly offer clients the latest Hybrid Cloud, AI, 5G, and Software Defined Networking capabilities.
• De Beers: advising on all aspects of its e-business programme, including drafting development agreements for necessary software for websites, intranets and trading nets, and business operation agreements for hosting of all systems.