Alasdair is a senior associate in our Technology, Media and Telecommunications team.
Alasdair is a transactional and commercial lawyer who advises on a broad range of complex technology, commercial, media and entertainment, and data protection matters across a variety of sectors.
Alasdair's experience includes advising clients on IT outsourcing projects (including regulated outsourcing), software licencing, advertising and marketing arrangements, sports rights and sponsorship deals, data protection compliance programmes, data sharing, and digital and e-commerce arrangements.
Alasdair has spent time on secondment at a number of clients operating in the TMT sector, including:
- bp (in their group technology and procurement, commercial development and transformation, and group technology, data and brands teams)
- Lloyds Banking Group (in their group operations and commercial legal team)
- Dentsu (in their global clients media buying team)
Experience & expertise
Selected matters
- a leading financial services technology provider on the establishment of a fintech platform integration providing independent financial advisers with a more streamlined set of practice management capability
- a private equity and financial services company on the development of a multi-lateral intragroup services agreement for both regulated and unregulated services.
- a global and "Big 4" UK retail bank on various aspects of the establishment of a cross-border foreign exchange and consumer finance business
- a major state-funded start up in the Middle East on various supply agreements for the acquisition of digital infrastructure, hardware, software, platforms and other technology services
- various clients operating in the EV charging ecosystem, on a range of commercial, technology, data and cyber related matters, including advice on consumer protection, privacy compliance, agency arrangements, complex technology agreements, partnerships and other commercial arrangements
- a multinational technology and consumer products company on the re-procurement of their global media planning, buying, and paid search service provision.
- a popular sports-based digital collectibles platform on regulatory issues (including requirements under gambling, consumer and data privacy laws) relating to a game allowing users to create fantasy teams of sports players and earn rewards based on the real-world performance of those players
- a sport-focussed anti-racism charity, on a pro bono basis, on various arrangements including partnership agreements to implement an annual e-sports tournaments and to provide talent initiative funding, data sharing agreements as part of a national anti-discrimination data analysis initiative, commercial arrangements to procure services, technology and funding, and advising on data protection and privacy issues, IP, and online harms
- a major UK government department on a three-part technology procurement and outsourcing programme for managed print services, records management and document security services, and management of enterprise-wide productivity software
- on global data compliance projects for a range of clients, including for global energy companies
- a multinational recruitment and HR company on mapping their international transfers of personal data and reworking their internal agreements and procurement templates to account for regulatory changes including Brexit, EDPB guidance, and various standard contractual clauses
- various clients on the data, technology, and IP ownership and licence elements on corporate transactions across a range of sectors, including TSAs, due diligence exercises, and associated documentation on share and asset sale and acquisitions
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