With a client roster that includes IT publishers, suppliers, resellers, and customers, Howes Percival LLP's tech and innovation team is prepared to advise on contentious and non-contentious IT matters. Team lead Matthew Talbot has established experience in contentious matters, while co-head Hannah Steggles is instructed on contentious and non-contentious matters, with noted expertise in drafting software development and license agreements. Paula Dumbill is geared to support at the intersection of commercial contracts and IT. The team also includes Jenna Bruce, who acts for software and media clients across a broad IT offering; tech and e-commerce expert Chris White; and new partner Miles Barnes, who handles non-contentious work for a range of businesses.
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‘‘The team, especially Miles Barnes, has worked with us for many years and takes great care in continually developing alongside us and having a great understanding of our services, the clients that we work with, our risk appetite and our business strategy.’
‘Miles Barnes has provided (and continues to provide) the highest level of service that we could reasonably expect. I would characterise the service that we receive as highly personalised, expert, pragmatic and 100% reliable. Miles brings incremental value to us each year, and we feel rewarded for the loyalty we have as a long-standing client.’
Key clients
- Business Software Alliance (BSA)
- Getronics UK Limited
- FibreFab Limited
- DeMontfort University
- Autodesk Inc.
- Internetwork Media Limited
- Prokon Software Limited
Work highlights
Instructed as sole representatives in the UK on behalf of the BSA whose members include Siemens, Autodesk and many other software companies.
Supported Red Helix Limited with the negotiation of key contracts with software suppliers in the UK and the US and also supported the client on issues around export control and the streamlining of documentation.
Supported XPS Pensions Group Plc on a range of IT procurement projects and negotiations, which included advising on a range of complex data protection issues and compliance with the PRA and FCA operational resilience requirements for outsourced IT suppliers.
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Practice head
Matthew Talbot; Hannah Steggles; Paula Dumbill
Other key lawyers
Jenna Bruce; Chris White; Miles Barnes