Richard Kemp

emphasis

• Business critical IT and telecoms systems
• Computer, information & communications
• Software, e-commerce & internet companies
• Outsourcing
• International transactions & operations
• Competition law
• Intellectual property
• IT & telecoms regulation
• Technology in the financial services, professional services, media and retail sectors

Representative Work

• Acting for a range of organisations on the technology law implications of MiFID – system controls, outsourcing, trade data and market data
• Acting for T-Mobile on:
• its agreement with Google
• the establishment of Virgin Mobile, (the first and still the largest MVNO)
• and its 3G infrastructure share agreement with O2
• Acting for a group of UK magic circle law firms on the establishment of the Banking Legal Technology Portal
• Acting for Microsoft on distribution of its products in Europe
• Acting for a range of FTSE companies in the retail and financial and professional services sectors on global:
  • SAP implementations
  • MPLS telecoms projects
  • Outsourcing arrangements
• Acting for UK record industry collecting society PPL online, digital and data projects

About

Richard Kemp is one of the UK's top technology and communications lawyers. He has a particular reputation for developing commercial and innovative legal solutions to the business challenges of technology development, application, implementation and regulation.

Richard is ranked in the global top 10 in both the IT and telecoms fields in the Expert Guide to the World's Leading Lawyers - Best of the Best 2008. He has been listed in the Best of the Best series since 2000 and in the top band of UK technology lawyers in the UK legal directories since setting up Kemp & Co in 1997. Richard has participated in teams that have won numerous legal industry awards and sits on the boards and editorial panels of a number of technology law specialist groups.

Richard qualified as a solicitor with Clifford-Turner in 1980 after graduating from Cambridge (1977) and from the ULB in Brussels (1979). He established Kemp & Co in 1997, which became Kemp Little LLP, the first UK law firm LLP, in 2001.