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Hamish Sandison
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Work Department
Technology and outsourcing group.
Position
Hamish has a leading reputation in technology law, with over 20 years’ experience advising UK clients in the public and private sectors on major IT projects. He specialises in commercial work for public sector clients, including IT procurement, major PFI and PPP projects, large-scale business process outsourcing transactions, cutting edge IPR, and e-commerce issues and ADR.
Career
Prior to joining the firm in 2008, Hamish was a partner at Bird & Bird from 1992 and its non-executive chairman for six years. He is dual-qualified as a US attorney and spent eight years practicing law with Arnold & Porter in Washington DC. He has written and lectured widely on IT Law and intellectual property and is top-ranked in the UK legal directories in the field of IT Law. Computer Weekly has referred to him as: ‘An ever trenchant interpreter of the law’.
Member
Non-executive director of the National Computing Centre; Council of EURIM (The European Information Society Group); Council of Experts of the Intellectual Property Institute; FAST (Federation Against Software Theft) Legal Advisory Group.
Practice Areas
Charities and not-for-profit; Information technology; Public sector
