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Catherine Bingham

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.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Corporate and commercial > Commercial contracts
- Risk advisory > Data protection, privacy and cybersecurity
- Industry focus > Emerging markets
- Dispute resolution > International arbitration
- Industry focus > Hospitality and leisure
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > IT and telecoms
- Insurance > Product liability: defendant
- Corporate and commercial > M&A: Lower Mid-Market Deals, £100m-£750m
- Dispute resolution > International arbitration
- Dispute resolution > International arbitration
- Employment > Health and safety
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > PATMA: Patent attorneys
- Transport > Rail
- Industry focus > Retail and consumer
Firm Rankings
- Real estate > Commercial property: corporate occupiers
- Risk advisory > Corporate governance
- Finance > Debt capital markets
- Finance > Derivatives and structured products
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Fintech: corporate and commercial
- Investment fund formation and management > Listed funds
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Oil and gas
- Corporate and commercial > Private equity: transactions - mid-market deals (up to £500m)
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Renewables
- Finance > Securitisation
- Finance > Trade finance
- Finance > Transport finance and leasing
- Corporate and commercial > Venture capital
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Artificial intelligence
- Finance > Asset based lending
- Finance > Bank lending: investment grade debt and syndicated loans
- Dispute resolution > Banking litigation: investment and retail
- Real estate > Commercial property: development
- Real estate > Commercial property: investment
- Real estate > Environment
- Corporate and commercial > Equity capital markets – small-mid cap
- Corporate and commercial > Equity capital markets: mid-large cap
- Corporate and commercial > EU and competition: trade, WTO anti-dumping and customs
- Corporate and commercial > Financial services: contentious
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Franchising
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Infrastructure: Project finance and development
- Dispute resolution > International arbitration
- Finance > Islamic finance
- Employment > Pensions (non-contentious)
- Employment > Pensions: dispute resolution
- Real estate > Planning
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Power (including electricity and nuclear)
- Real estate > Property finance
- Real estate > Property litigation
- Industry focus > TMT
- Public sector > Administrative and public law
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: premium
- Real estate > Construction: contentious
- Finance > Corporate restructuring & insolvency
- Employment > Employers
- Corporate and commercial > Financial services: non-contentious/regulatory
- Employment > Health and safety
- Employment > Immigration
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Infrastructure: M&A and acquisition financing
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Intellectual property: patents (contentious and non-contentious)
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Intellectual property: trade marks, copyright and design
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > PATMA: Trade mark attorneys
- Corporate and commercial > EU and competition
- Risk advisory > Regulatory investigations and corporate crime (advice to corporates)
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Sport