Morrison Foerster (Singapore)

Privacy + Data Security; Outsourcing; Technology Transactions; Patent Litigation

Partner

Gordon focuses his practice on advising clients about intellectual property, licensing, outsourcing, and technology transactions.

He has advised clients in the IT, telecommunications, financial services, manufacturing, and energy and life sciences industries on a wide spectrum of technology-related matters. His practice ranges from major projects, such as the establishment of the entire technology infrastructure for a new national PRC bank, to the creation of a new Singapore-based outsourced design, manufacturing, and logistics system for a global footwear company.

Gordon has particular experience in cross-border commercial technology transactions in Asia and has worked with clients on a variety of projects, from traditional technology transfer arrangements to complex collaborative development relationships. He also has substantial experience in providing intellectual property, regulatory, and operational technology law advice to clients in mainland China, Hong Kong, and the Asia-Pacific region.

He is a frequent writer and speaker on technology transfer rights, encryption, intellectual property rights, and data privacy, and has delivered lectures to regional governments and industry bodies in Asia. Gordon also has extensive experience with open source software and is an active participant in public debates involving government and major players in the tech industry.

Gordon advises a broad range of clients—from global technology companies and banks to Fintech start-ups—on online services, e-commerce, payment systems, blockchain, digital currencies, IP, data, and cloud transactions. With over 25 years of experience, he helps clients navigate financial regulations and design practical operational frameworks. His recent blockchain experience includes:

Major Hong Kong Financial Infrastructure Provider. Advise the client on its partnership with the Hong Kong government to build and operate a new inter-central bank blockchain platform to facilitate central bank backed cross-border payments. Major Global Bitcoin Miner and Digital Infrastructure Platform. Advise this platform in connection with a cross-border joint venture with a China-based technology group. U.S. Multinational Consumer Technology Company. Advised the client with respect to its international payment network including advising on regulatory requirements in Hong Kong and Macau, and issues pertaining to stored value card, use of NFT wallets in metro transport systems.

Gordon served as vice chair of the Technology Law Committee of the Inter-Pacific Bar Association. He has lived in Hong Kong since 2001 and previously practiced in London.

University of Oxford, B.A.

College of Law, York, L.P.C.