Alistair Cooper

Alistair specialises in complex technology transactions, commercial contracts, intellectual property and data protection matters.

Having qualified in 2015, Alistair has extensive experience working with a variety of businesses, from high-growth scale-ups to global organisations, focusing in particular on matters arising at the intersection between technology and the healthcare, real estate and financial services sectors. He supports clients on a wide range of matters from day-to-day contractual issues through to business critical transformation projects and compliance issues, recent examples of which include:

• Acting as 'virtual in-house counsel' for a prominent SaaS provider in the financial services sector, advising on a variety of matters from significant customer contracts to data protection issues.
• Working alongside the firm's Commercial Health lawyers on a major technology project relating to the launch of a new digital healthcare platform.
• Drafting and negotiating high value IT and commercial contracts pertaining to large-scale construction projects.
• Supporting a number of HealthTech scale-ups on contractual, data and other issues arising in relation to the deployment of artificial intelligence solutions.
• Acting for a leading accountancy and professional services firm on a transformation project involving the multi-million pound purchase of a new cloud-based banking platform.
• Advising a charity client on the contractual framework pertaining to the launch of non-fungible tokens.
• Supporting a rapidly growing digital sports platform on commercial and compliance matters relating to its ticketing and online content offerings.

Alistair regularly publishes articles and speaks to industry participants on a variety of technology-related issues, and frequently delivers training to his clients on best practice and legal updates. He was also one of DACB's representatives on a pilot project for the 'O-Shaped Lawyer', and is a mentor on the Aspiring Solicitors Mentoring Scheme.