Operating as part of a national team, the technology practice at Eversheds Sutherland (International) LLP boasts extensive expertise in technology contracts, cloud computing, and SaaS solution procurements. Richard Hill leads the team and handles large-scale technology outsourcing arrangements, cloud deals, and software contracts. Other key members of the team include Tom Bridgford, Richard Jones, and Shehan Kamal.
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Testimonials
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- Richard Hill is always responsive and provides helpful, commercial advice. Shehan Kamal is a very bright and helpful associate who has a very good understanding of our business.
- The team understands our business and objectives and applies this well to meet our legal needs.
- The team brings a wealth of experience and a unique skill set for navigating service providers and their presented documentation, both in the context of supporting client concerns and advising on risk mitigation (in relation to accepting non-negotiable terms and/or putting measures in place internally to accommodate hard lines of providers). Plus, the ES team consistently reassured and advised on the rights and obligations in plain speak and shared expertise on the practicalities of the suite of documents that we were required to review. They were an absolute pleasure to deal with: concise, informed, personable, practicable, smart, malleable, and available.
- Richard Hill is an exceptional practitioner and makes it pleasurable to navigate these sorts of transactions. Misha Sealy is a fantastic second chair.
- Richard Hill is a commercially minded partner with excellent judgment on negotiating levers and crisp advice on challenging IT-related risks. Shehan Kamal is highly responsive and detail-oriented, producing clear analyses and risk summaries and keeping momentum through well-structured mark-ups and quick turnarounds. They work seamlessly as a team and communicate in a way that makes it easy for in-house counsel to drive decisions with the business.
Key clients
- Labware, Inc.
Work highlights
Advised a leading pharmaceutical company on a commercially significant renegotiation of its global Salesforce estate.
Advised a global sports apparel brand on its significant global enterprise technology procurement arrangements.
Advised a global logistics provider to review and revise its master multi-services framework agreement and streamline all of its associated precedents for use around the globe.
Practice head
Richard Hill
Other key lawyers
Tom Bridgford; Richard Jones; Shehan Kamal