Gary Parnell > Stevens & Bolton LLP > Guildford, England > Lawyer Profile
Stevens & Bolton LLP Offices
WEY HOUSE
FARNHAM ROAD
GUILDFORD
GU1 4YD
England
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Gary Parnell
Work Department
Commercial/IT/IP
Position
Partner and Co-head of Insurance. With over twenty five years’ experience in business and law, Gary has amassed a wealth of knowledge on outsourcing, information technology and digital business (including Blockchain and AI), data privacy, intellectual property, procurement, insurance, financial regulation and other general commercial law matters.
As well as regularly advising technology businesses, Gary also has particular expertise advising clients operating in the insurance sector, providing specialist commercial law advice on insurance distribution arrangements (including affinity partnerships), outsourcings (both onshore and offshore), IT projects (including insurtech) and complex cross-border data privacy matters.
Career
Started career in IT, working for a number of years as a project manager for BT, gaining valuable industry knowledge handling major outsourcing arrangements for clients in the IT and defence sectors. Gary later changed career path, training and qualifying as a lawyer at Nabarro.
Before joining Stevens & Bolton LLP, spent eight years in the Commercial/IT/IP team at Clyde & Co. During his time there, he also undertook high profile secondments to RSA, ACE and Swiss Re.
Memberships
Member of the Society for Computers & Law and ITechLaw
Lawyer Rankings
London > Insurance > Insurance: corporate and regulatory
Stevens & Bolton LLP boasts expertise in M&A transactions, Part VII transfers, bulk annuity matters and reinsurance transactions. The Guildford-based practice is headed up by Gary Parnell and Heidi Sawtell; Parnell specialises in insurance distribution arrangements and affinity partnerships, and Sawtell excels in Part VII transfers, reinsurance and pension de-risking transactions. Other notable names in the practice include David Steinberg, Joe Bedford and Jenny Robertson
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London > TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > IT and telecoms
Well-regarded in the automotive, FinTech, and technology sectors, Stevens & Bolton LLP is geared to advise clients on AI, digital assets, outsourcing projects, and the rollout of fibre networks. Charles Maurice leads the department and is particularly focused on the implementation and acquisition of new technologies. Beverley Flynn is knowledgeable of IT e-commerce and procurement, in addition to data protection and GDPR. Gary Parnell is well-informed in InsurTech issues, and Guy Cartwright often handles IT licensing and distribution.
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Finance > Banking and finance
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: Kent, Surrey and Sussex
- Real estate > Commercial property: Kent, Surrey, Sussex
- Real estate > Construction
- Private client > Contentious trusts and probate
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate and commercial: Kent, Surrey, Sussex
- Employment > Employment: Kent, Surrey, Sussex
- Real estate > Environment and planning
- Private client > Family: Kent, Surrey, Sussex
- Employment > Immigration
- Finance > Insolvency and corporate recovery
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Intellectual property
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > IT and telecoms
- Private client > Personal tax, trusts and probate: Kent, Surrey, Sussex
- Real estate > Property litigation