Our focus areas
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.
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.
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.
Hardware, software and IT services
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.
Internet
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.
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.
Experience
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.
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.
Fact #5
We advised on the UK’s first NFC technology mobile payments system
Tech, Media and CommsInsights
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CDEI research identifies barriers to data use and ethical artificial intelligence
Public trust and regulation emerge as crucial from the Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation's in-depth analysis of AI and data use in the UK.
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French Constitutional Court rejects controversial new online harms rules
On 18 June 2020, the French Constitutional Council has ruled on the conformity of the French law adopted by the Parliament to tackle the spread of hate speech through Internet…
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