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

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.

Endorsements

Alistair is noted in the legal directories (Legal 500 London, 2024 Edition, IT and telecoms) for his "adaptability and resilience", and for his proficiency in commercial contracts, data protection, and tech transactions.