Technology

Technology underpins everything we do in digital business. It's what we specialise in and what we're known for. Our knowledge of technology has been built through exposure to and direct involvement in entrepreneurial ideas and innovation.
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Technology

Technology underpins everything we do in digital business. It's what we specialise in and what we're known for. Our knowledge of technology has been built through exposure to and direct involvement in entrepreneurial ideas and innovation.

Technology underpins everything we do in digital business. It's what we specialise in and what we're known for. Our knowledge of technology has been built through exposure to and direct involvement in entrepreneurial ideas and innovation.

Media & Entertainment 

Our Media and Entertainment group is best known for its deep sector knowledge, international regulatory expertise and its track record providing key strategic advice for an impressive portfolio of industry heavy-weight clients as they navigate an ever-evolving industry and regulatory landscape.
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Media & Entertainment 

Our Media and Entertainment group is best known for its deep sector knowledge, international regulatory expertise and its track record providing key strategic advice for an impressive portfolio of industry heavy-weight clients as they navigate an ever-evolving industry and regulatory landscape.

We are also known as a firm that always has its finger on the pulse and an eye on the future, whilst focussing on delivering practical advice.

Our deep heritage of working in the TMC sector means we have worked with complex technology businesses and disruptive future facing services helping them to develop game-changing technologies and innovative business models, from complex platforms through to global D2C, ecommerce services and interactive entertainment services.
 

Telecoms

We work with many of the leading players in the UK telecoms market including telecoms operators, mobile service providers, platform providers, infrastructure companies and technology suppliers around the world and understand the wider communications industry.
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Telecoms

We work with many of the leading players in the UK telecoms market including telecoms operators, mobile service providers, platform providers, infrastructure companies and technology suppliers around the world and understand the wider communications industry.

We work with many of the leading players in the UK telecoms market including telecoms operators, mobile service providers, platform providers, infrastructure companies and technology suppliers around the world and understand the wider communications industry. 

Advertising, marketing and strategic communications
Our Advertising and Marketing Services team is recognised as the European leader for large creative and media agencies right through to niche digital and data specialists.
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Broadcasting and digital content
Our international Broadcasting & Digital Content group delivers cutting edge work advising market leading clients on all aspects of their legal needs.
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Games and interactive entertainment
In recent years, interactive entertainment has overtaken music and film to become one of the largest industries in the entertainment media sector.
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Cloud, software, services and devices
Technology underpins everything we do in digital business. It's what we specialise in and what we're known for. Our knowledge of technology has been built through exposure to and direct involvement in entrepreneurial ideas and innovation.
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Digital commerce, platforms and social media
We specialise in advising internet intermediaries and platform by leveraging our expertise in the regulation of the internet to provide our clients with a full international service across all of our service lines.
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Telecoms
We work with many of the leading players in the UK telecoms market including telecoms operators, mobile service providers, platform providers, infrastructure companies and technology suppliers around the world and understand the wider communications industry.
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Publishing

Specialist legal expertise for the evolving publishing industry

New technology is allowing publishers to engage with audiences in exciting new ways.

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Gambling

Specialist legal advice for the intricacies of the global gambling industry

Our international team advises on cutting-edge gaming and gambling formats, gambling advertising compliance, as well as licensing and other regulatory requirements for gambling operators.

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Sports Law

Focused and dynamic advice for sports clients

Leaders in their field, our international team acts for an impressive portfolio of sports-related clients, ranging from professional clubs and athletes to social media platforms, sponsors, broadcasters, esports organisations and commercial a

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Our Experience

Microsoft

Advised Microsoft in its role to provide a world-leading weather and climate supercomputing capability and managed service to the Met Office for advanced weather forecasting and climate modelling. 

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Causeway Technologies

Advised Causeway Technologies on a £120 million investment to fund strategic acquisitions and accelerate its organic growth strategy to digitally connect the construction supply chain through further development of its Cloud Platform. 

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Essensys plc

Advised AIM-quoted essensys plc, the leading global provider of mission critical software-as-a-service platforms and on-demand cloud services to the flexible workspace industry, on its conditional £31.3 million primary placing and up to £2 million open offer. 

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ECI Partners

Advised leading private equity firm ECI Partners (ECI), and the management team, on the sale of the successful global digital communications company, Investis Digital, to Investcorp. 

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Growth Capital Partners

Advised Growth Capital Partners (GCP) on its investment in Hippo Digital, a cutting edge design and delivery consultancy. 

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Byte

Advised marketing technology agency Byte on its merge with international digital agency Dept. 

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Notonthehighstreet

Advised Notonthehighstreet and its management team on the sale of the company to growth equity firm Great Hill Partners.

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Facebook

Advised Facebook on a range of advertising issues (including designing and implementing a process for and assisting with T&Cs for various advertising products/services).

Byyd Tech

Advised Byyd Tech, the mobile demand-side platform, on a range of legal and regulatory issues, including a review of its key supplier and customer terms.

Omnicom Media Group

Advised Omnicom Media Group on privacy and regulatory issues in the context of targeting and programmatic advertising.

Beats

Advised Beats on all distribution and sales channels outside the US, including EMEA, Latin America and Asia.

Progressive Digital Media Group plc

Advised Progressive Digital Media Group plc on its £67 million acquisition of the GlobalData group.

NewVoiceMedia

Advised leading cloud contact centre vendor NewVoiceMedia on a US$50m fundraising.

LendInvest

Advised LendInvest on its £17m growth equity investment from Atomico.

Facebook

Advised Facebook on the establishment of its operations in the UK, Europe, New Zealand and India; also advised on various regulatory compliance issues, including data protection and marketing regulation.

EE

Acted for EE in relation to numerous B2B agreements, public procurement and property matters. Assisted on the integration with BT and the adoption of new terms and conditions.

Admiral Insurance Plc

Advised Admiral Insurance Plc in relation to its agreement with Telefonica for the outsourcing of its fixed-line voice and data communications and the management of its LAN and WAN.

EE

Advised on EE's Home Office tender for the supply of integrated critical voice, broadband data and related services for the provision of emergency services.

GV

Advised GV (previously Google Ventures) on a number of investments, including the series C round in Kobalt Music (GV's first investment from its European fund).

KPMG

Advised KPMG on its strategic alliance with McLaren Applied Technologies for analytics data management.

Eucalyptus

Advised Eucalyptus, the world's most widely deployed cloud software platform for on-premise Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), on various aspects of their expansion.

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