Sebastian Price > Shoosmiths LLP > Milton Keynes, England > Lawyer Profile

Shoosmiths LLP
100 AVEBURY BOULEVARD
MILTON KEYNES
MK9 1FH
England

Work Department

Commercial

Position

Sebastian advises on the full range of commercial arrangements, covering every aspect of clients’ purchasing, production, marketing, selling, infrastructure, outsourcing, technology and e-commerce requirements. He has particular experience of tailoring support for in-house legal teams, working closely with them. He has worked on secondment with clients, including time at a major retail bank.

He has particular legal specialism in IT outsourcing, software licensing and development, IT systems acquisition, facilities management, electronic trading and other IT related matters; and he is identified as a leader in the field of Information Technology by Chambers and Partners.

His focus is on helping clients meet their commercial objectives by using his legal knowledge and expertise and acting as part of the client team.Sebastian’s experience includes advising:

  • the leading supplier to the health sector of safety related software on its licencing and distributorship arrangements worldwide;
  • retailers on online sales, distance selling and other e-commerce issues;
  • a Police Force on its procurement of a new ERP system;
  • universities on research and teaching collaborations, and on a range of other arrangements for making use of university know-how and IP;
  • a leading residential mortgage providers on mortgage sales and procurement of a new IT system;
  • a US credit card company and personal finance lender on its operations in the UK;
  • credit card issuers on affinity arrangements, merchant acquiring and card schemes;
  • a top 4 UK housebuilder on the contracts to set up an arrangement to assist first time buyers obtain mortgage finance;
  • the UK’s leading travel company on a range of outsourcings and business critical contracts; and
  • the world’s leading car hire company on its UK rental and fleet management arrangem

Career

Sebastian qualified as a solicitor in 1986. He joined Cameron McKenna in the City of London, advising on complex corporate, commercial and financial transactions. He spent two years working in Eastern Europe and the Middle East, living in Cairo and Warsaw, advising blue chip multinationals on all aspects of their commercial activity in those developing markets. He joined Shoosmiths in 1999.

Education

University College London.

Lawyer Rankings

South East > TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > IT and telecoms

Handling a breadth of multi-jurisdictional matters for significant names such as Audi, Mercedes Benz, and Nissan, Shoosmiths LLP is a key port of call for automotive clients. Robin Webb co-leads the team and is knowledgeable of IT outsourcing projects, while Sebastian Price also co-leads the team and has thorough expertise of electronic trading, facilities management and IT systems acquisitions. All of the individuals that have been mentioned are located in Milton Keynes.

South East > Corporate and commercial > Corporate and commercial: Beds, Bucks, Herts, Middx

Amit Nayyar, Robin Webb and Claire Checketts jointly lead the Milton Keynes-based practice at Shoosmiths LLP. The team provides an ‘exceptional level of support‘ to a number of notable clients, including Nissan, Estée Lauder Companies and Mercedes Benz. Nayyar is a private equity expert who primarily assists investment funds, Checketts handles the corporate side of the practice, often advising on both buy and sell-side M&A matters, and Webb focuses on transactional issues within the financial services and automotive sectors. Sebastian Price is particularly adept at providing clients within the technology and logistics sectors with ‘solid, practical‘ advice concerning multi-jurisdictional transactions. Aleksandr Bosch also contributes his broad experience in acting for management teams and PLCs to the practice.