Paul Hinton

emphasis

• Financial services IT – including trading and platforms and data licensing
• IT agreements (procurement, licensing, development and maintenance)
• Outsourcing agreements
• Information management, privacy, data retention and data protection
• IP advice and agreements relating to use and ownership of all types of content
• Sourcing of goods and services
• General commercial agreements

Representative Work

• Advising a joint venture Exchange Traded Fund provider, owned by a consortium of merchant banks in relation to all agreements necessary for start-up
• Advising the UK Inter-Dealer Broker community in relation to collection, aggregation and dissemination of financial data
• Advising a leading Multi-Lateral Trading Facility in relation to all of its commercial contractual arrangements
• Advising a leading Exchange in relation to a deal for the running of a Scandanavian Exchange platform on an ASP basis
• In-house counsel, London Stock Exchange plc (2002 – 2005) – work included advising on market data distribution, comms network roll-out, data product launches, trading platform software development and roll-out
• Advising a multinational logistics company on contractual arrangements for providing a secure electronic banking platform
• Advising a leading insurance company on all aspects of IT and comms infrastructure development, procurement and deployment;
• Advising a leading insurance company in relation to an information management project and review of all data and related contracts, systems and policies; and
• Advising a leading medical equipment manufacturer in relation to all customer agreements

About

Paul is a commercial lawyer with a broad range of experience in drafting all kinds of commercial contracts, with a particular focus on IT and intellectual property related matters.

Paul joined Kemp Little LLP as a partner in the Commercial Technology practice in December 2009.

Paul has worked both in private practice and in-house and advises companies of all sizes (from large multi-national to start-up) in a wide variety of sectors. For example, Paul has worked in-house or on secondment for: London Stock Exchange plc, a leading merchant bank; the BBC and Santander.

Paul trained at Field Fisher Waterhouse and has worked at Baker & McKenzie and Barlow, Lyde & Gilbert LLP.