Fieldfisher provides a comprehensive cross-border offering with key strengths including telecoms and digital infrastructure projects, alongside digital regulation, AI, and emerging tech. Simon Briskman heads the practice with three decades of experience in tech and outsourcing issues- more recently advising on supercomputers, advertising, and retail tech matters. James Walsh is the name to note for digital regulation, network infrastructure, and data centre projects. Paul Graham has a notable specialism in digital transformation, cloud implementation, 5G and full-fibre roll-out associated regulatory issues. John Worthy is well-versed in IT and outsourcing, as well as being particularly impressive for his depth of knowledge in the space and satellite sector. Paul Barton has extensive experience supporting software and corporate clients on outsourcing and transformational projects. Elora Mukherjee excels in telecoms and regulation, as well as tech disputes. Michael Butterworth provides regulatory and transactional advice to mobile, fixed line, cloud, and infrastructure sectors.
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Testimonials
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‘I have appreciated John Worthy's expertise, and he's got strong client relationship skills.’
‘I've worked with the guys at Fieldfisher for a number of years now and their standards have never dropped. They are both consistent and reliable.'
- 'Our work has always been of the required standard and there is a true partnership that exists between our two organisations - They are absolutely critical to our success.’
- 'I have worked with Alex Harbin on both customer and supplier contracts and cannot speak highly enough of him - absolutely outstanding.’
‘There are some outstanding lawyers in the team.’
Key clients
- euNetworks
- Space Norway, Space Solar/Space Energy Initiative, Lonestar Data – world first space-tech programmes
- S&P Global
- Ark Data Centres
- Lycamobile
- Everyone TV
- Zayo/Fibrespeed
- Pepco
- EBRD
- Getty Images
Work highlights
Instructed to advise and represent Getty Images in its claim for infringement of copyright, database rights, trademarks and passing off against Stability AI, in relation to the large-scale unauthorised use of Getty Images' content to train Stability AI's generative AI model, Stable Diffusion.
Advising FibreSpeed since March 2024 on the transitional arrangements for handing over the 411 km broadband network it constructed on behalf of, and has operated for, the Welsh Government for the last fifteen years.
Supported EBRD on a range of digital transformation work, and in 2024 supported their migration to SAP's cloud products, a contract with Hexaware for ERP implementation, kicked off a project for their next generation security operations platform and provided secondment and retainer support for a range of their other transformation work.
Lawyers
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Practice head
Simon Briskman
Other key lawyers
James Walsh; Paul Graham; John Worthy; Paul Barton; Elora Mukherjee; Michael Butterworth; Alex Harbin