Chris Hawkins

emphasis

• Commercial contracts
• Technology outsourcing
• Financial services regulation
• Commercial intellectual property issues
• Information technology including systems procurement and support
• Software licensing, development and support
• E-commerce
• Data protection and privacy

Representative Work

• Negotiating, drafting and advising on customer agreements for a leading provider of loan servicing and payment processing services to banks
• Advising an electronic trading processing solutions provider on its customer agreements and related regulatory requirements
• Acting for a FTSE 100 advanced technologies company on the outsourcing of IT infrastructure, software development and support services
• Providing detailed guidance on the financial services regulatory regime to banks and technology providers
• Acting for a leading international insurer and reinsurer on the outsourcing of its IT functions to multiple vendors

About

Chris specialises in negotiating and drafting commercial technology contracts and advising on technology-related legal, commercial and regulatory issues.

Chris has taken a leading role on large-scale IT outsourcing projects for supply and buy side clients.

Chris' experience covers a range of industry sectors including his work within client legal teams during secondments to a mobile network operator, a FTSE 100 company and the UK Government.

Chris qualified as a solicitor in 2005. He graduated with a degree in Law from the University of Nottingham in 2000 and gained a Distinction in the Legal Practice Course in 2003. Chris trained at Bird & Bird and joined the practice in 2007 from Barlow Lyde & Gilbert.