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Technology

Technology is fundamental to modern life. It fosters efficiency, innovation, and connectivity, catalysing leaps in healthcare, finance, insurance, retail and logistics, research and development, the creative and performing arts and beyond. Our national technology team is one of the largest in the UK and is comprised of transactional lawyers as well as litigators. We pair industry knowledge with technological expertise to help you achieve your goals.

Overview

We advise clients across the technology ecosystem, from multinational organisations and public bodies to technology suppliers and scaling businesses. Our team combines technology expertise with an understanding of the sectors in which our clients operate, providing clear, commercially grounded advice aligned with your business goals.

Our experience spans major IT outsourcing and transformation programmes, software development, SaaS, cloud services, systems integration, licensing, procurement, and emerging technologies including artificial intelligence, digital assets, and IoT. We also advise on the evolving regulatory landscape, including digital regulation and data protection.

When disputes arise, we help you navigate technically complex and commercially sensitive issues, from failed or delayed technology projects and software defects to licensing, intellectual property, procurement, and outsourcing disputes. Where ongoing relationships need to be preserved, we focus on practical and efficient resolution.

Whether you are developing new technology, transforming existing operations, or managing a challenging project, we provide practical advice that reflects your commercial priorities. Our international network enables us to support technology projects and disputes across multiple markets.

Featured experience

Contractual agreements

Advising an international HealthTech business in relation to an NHS framework agreement and call off, for implementation of a patient administration system.

Artificial intelligence

Drafting bespoke AI clauses for a client developing an AI tool to support medical negligence related legal claims

Intellectual property

Managing the global trade mark portfolio for Dogecoin, one of the world’s most popular cryptocurrencies

Facial recognition technology

Supporting a leading construction sector client on a contract for the implementation of CCTV systems utilising facial recognition technology

Technology disputes

Acting for a market leading crypto wallet company in a minority shareholder dispute involving allegations of misappropriation of assets, mismanagement, and forgery of electronic documents

Sector-specific expertise

Insurance

We advise insurers, brokers, MGAs, and insurtech businesses, combining deep insurance sector knowledge with technology expertise. Our work spans complex outsourcing, cloud and SaaS services, systems development, and AI-enabled technologies. We help you deliver transformation while navigating the regulatory, operational, and commercial requirements of the insurance market.

Featured Experience

  • Advising on complex and cross-border IT outsourcing, including material outsourcing and localisation arrangements
  • Advising a major insurer on the contractual, legal and regulatory issues on the procurement of an innovative AI platform to be used to target, categorise, and price underwriting risks
  • Advising on emerging technologies including telematics, IoT, advanced data analytics,

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Financial Services

We advise banks, building societies, lenders, fund managers, fintechs, and other financial institutions. Our work spans payment platforms, digital distribution, cloud-based services, systems integration, and AI-driven tools. We also help fintech businesses move from development to market, navigating FCA authorisation, regulatory frameworks, commercial partnerships, and the technology arrangements needed to scale.

Featured Experience

  • Supporting some of the world’s largest financial services institutions on DORA remediation projects, and helping develop compliance frameworks
  • Supporting fintech businesses with regulatory status, FCA authorisation, sandbox participation, and compliance frameworks
  • Advising on payment platforms, AI-driven tools, and digital distribution models.

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Health

We combine extensive health sector knowledge with specialist technology expertise to support digital health projects at every stage. We advise healthcare providers, NHS organisations, medtech and digital health providers, and innovators on developing and implementing digital health technologies, from clinical systems to AI-enabled platforms and new models of care.

Featured Experience

  • Supporting a large private healthcare group with the multi-vendor implementation of its central EPR platform
  • Advising a scaling health tech business on deploying an AI marketplace into the NHS
  • Advising an international health tech business on an NHS framework agreement and implementation of a patient administration system

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Real Estate

We advise housebuilders, property developers, asset managers, investors, and proptech businesses on technology across the built environment. Our experience spans business-critical IT systems, smart infrastructure, AI-enabled technologies, IoT, and electric vehicle infrastructure. We combine technology expertise with our understanding of the real estate sector to help you procure and deploy new solutions while managing the commercial, data, and regulatory issues involved.

Featured Experience

  • Advising a major property developer on the roll-out of AI-powered facial recognition technology across its estate
  • Advising a major housebuilder on its strategically important new HR IT system
  • Drafting a bespoke framework agreement for the supply of electric vehicle charging points for a leading property developer

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FAQs

It is helpful to involve us early, particularly when negotiating contracts or identifying potential risks. However, we frequently join projects later to address issues such as delays, defects, or disagreements around scope and delivery.
Yes. We work with suppliers, purchasers, public bodies, and fast growth digital businesses. This broad perspective enables us to understand the commercial pressures on all sides and provide balanced, practical advice.
We routinely advise on international matters. Our international network allows us to advise on cross-border projects and disputes.
We regularly advise on data protection, data use and sharing, AI deployment, and the ownership and licensing of intellectual property in technology products and services. We help you structure arrangements so that rights, responsibilities, and governance are clear from the outset.
We review and negotiate technology contracts to clarify risk allocation, service levels, data use, intellectual property, security, and liability. Our aim is to ensure your contracts are clear, workable in practice, and aligned with your commercial objectives, whilst taking account of applicable regulation.

Legal 500 UK, 2027, IT and Telecoms, London

"Very responsive service. They clearly value the instructions we send. Advice is clear and appropriate to the matter. They clearly have good industry expertise.”

Legal 500 UK, 2027, IT and Telecoms, London

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Tim Ryan

Partner

Londres

Tim Ryan

Partner

Londres

+44 (0)20 7894 6978

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Andy Lucas

Partner

Londres

Andy Lucas

Partner

Londres

+44 (0)746 910 854

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Alistair Cooper

Partner

Londres

Alistair Cooper

Partner

Londres

+44(0)20 7894 6967

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¿Por qué elegir DAC Beachcroft?

Somos un bufete comercial de amplia base que presta servicios a una gran variedad de sectores, con una sólida herencia en seguros,
salud e inmobiliario. Combinamos excelentes conocimientos jurídicos y experiencia de vanguardia para diseñar soluciones en
que se adapten a las necesidades de nuestros clientes, a menudo con un uso inteligente de la tecnología.

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