Catherine Bingham > Dentons > London, England > Lawyer Profile

Dentons
ONE FLEET PLACE
LONDON
EC4M 7WS
England

Position

Catherine Bingham, partner, has specialized in advising on major technology, infrastructure and outsourcing and technology projects for over 25 years and co-leads our UK government practice.  Typically Catherine’s role includes advising on strategy, leading on drafting and negotiating the project contracts and advising on the procurement, tendering and evaluation processes. UK government clients she has worked with include UK Ministry of Defence, (multi-£bn projects for ICT infrastructure and for ships and submarines and naval base support), Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (International Science & Innovation), UK Space Agency, HM Treasury, Department for Culture, Media and Sport, Northern Ireland Civil Service and Department for Transport. On the private sector side, she has acted for technology suppliers and for customers in a wide range of industry sectors, including energy, transport and infrastructure, financial services, and retail. She is consistently rated as a leader in the technology and outsourcing fields. She is seen as an “excellent IT lawyer” and as “a calm and pragmatic operator” and wins plaudits for “deliverying professional advice and responding to challenges and deadlines”.

Catherine is also an intellectual property specialist with over 30 years’ experience advising on IP, IT, data, information and security issues for public and private sector clients.  She has negotiated a wide range of commercial agreements for technology, retail, energy transport and infrastructure, healthcare and media clients including research and development agreements, franchise agreements, licenses, distribution and supply and joint venture agreements. She also advises on issues arising in relation to the exploitation of intellectual property rights covering patent, know-how, trade marks, design and copyright and data protection.

Lawyer Rankings

London > Public sector > Administrative and public law

Dentons has a broad range of capabilities that extends to public procurement, judicial review, and competitive tendering. The team is headed by Christopher McGee-Osborne and Catherine Bingham. McGee-Osborne has extensive experience advising on policy and regulatory reforms, while Bingham has an expertise in infrastructure projects and procurement processes. The team is strengthened by Jeremy Easton, who joined the firm in March 2023. Having worked as a government lawyer for more than a decade, Easton is especially skilled with matters in the energy sector.