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Iain Simmons

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Position

Iain is a senior commercial lawyer, with experience across multiple sectors and jurisdictions, specialising in technology, media and telecoms (TMT) and has held senior in-house, Head of Legal and General Counsel positions at a number of platform, technology and data businesses, from start-ups/scale-ups to multi-nationals.

As an experienced commercial contracts lawyer and negotiator, Iain has helped both supplier and customer-side clients to achieve their business goals. He has advised start-up platform businesses on business-to-business SaaS agreements and SLAs, through to supporting household name corporates on their major multi-million pound outsourcing projects, including in heavily regulated sectors such as financial services, telecoms and utilities.

Iain has a breadth of legal experience, including contract/consumer law, corporate law and governance, M&A, IP, AI/technology, Data Privacy/GDPR and dispute management & resolution.

Iain has a good understanding of how to create and maintain business value, and how to balance this against managing legal risk and compliance, working with senior management, boards and key external stakeholders such as lenders, investors, shareholders and regulators.

Career

After qualification, Iain joined the London offices of private practice firms Harbottle & Lewis, Addleshaw Goddard and RPC as a TMT specialist and Company Commercial lawyer before moving in-house to AIG Europe as their Senior Commercial Counsel & DPO.

Iain has held other in-house senior roles at SilverRail (Expedia Group), Expedia, fintech company Bink, General Counsel for Moteefe and Head of Legal (Interim) for Secret Escapes.

Personal

Outside of his professional life, Iain enjoys trail-running, mountain biking and taking his dog for a walk. He also enjoys a good film or book, and theatre and the arts whenever he can fit it in.