Jon is a specialist technology lawyer in our commercial team, with experience in advising clients on data protection and export control issues.

He advises on a broad spectrum of technology transactions and digitalisation projects, including software arrangements, outsourcing contracts and R&D collaborations (particularly those involving emerging technologies or disruptive components).

Alongside his transactional work Jon's regulatory expertise helps clients navigate:

  • The UK data protection landscape, and he has particular experience in the unique data protection challenges faced by those operating in the Tech, Media and Comms and Digital Health sectors; and
  • The UK dual-use export control regime, particularly those controls governing state-of-the-art and strategic technologies, such as cryptography and quantum computing.

Jon has spent time on secondment with several clients, most recently as the primary UK legal adviser for a leading 3D software solutions multinational.

Technology Transactions

Negotiating £multi-million software licensing and services agreements related to the core software brands of a leading 3D software solutions multinational.

Supporting a global aerospace company over a number of years with complex, strategic and multi-party, R&D collaborations and commercial arrangements.

Data Privacy

Advising an electronics retailer on the consequences of a major, and highly publicised, global cyber-attack.

Strategic advice to a leading social media platform on the implications of the UK Data Protection Act 2018.

Dual-use export Control

Supporting a leading global defence contractor with the development, and roll-out, of global export control policies and procedures.

Supporting an international IT distribution company on a compound penalty notice issued by HMRC following export control breaches.

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