Simmons & Simmons

Digital Business

Neil is Of Counsel in our Digital Business group in London.

Neil advises on regulatory issues and commercial transactions across a wide range of industry sectors, including financial institutions, technology, telecoms, and life sciences. He is a specialist in data protection and cybersecurity compliance and other aspects of digital regulation.

Neil's experience includes advising:

• a major banking group on the full range of data protection and privacy compliance matters
• a global pharmaceutical and biotechnology group on a study of its privacy governance framework, AI law issues and other regulatory matters
• a leading Internet exchange operator on commercial and regulatory matters related to its UK operations and internal expansion
• a financial services business on legal and regulatory issues related to the launch of a novel salary finance solution
• an international banking group on the procurement of a technology stack to support the launch of the world's first digital Islamic bank
• a leading UK pensions business on its response to a cybersecurity incident affecting a major outsourced IT service provider
• a US-based pharmaceuticals business on compliance with UK data protection laws
• on the creation of regulatory obligations trackers on behalf of an international banking group
• a global energy business on the procurement of a charge point management system and related services
• other major businesses on:
  • compliance in the context of data breaches and complex data subject access requests
  • outsourcings and other procurements, including agreements for data management services, edge-to-cloud platform services, and other combinations of software, hardware, and services