James is a Partner in our Commercial team.

James specialises in commercial and IT contracts with a particular focus on the technology, education and aviation/aerospace sectors.

He has extensive experience advising clients at all stages of the procurement chain, working closely with clients' in-house legal and commercial teams.

James' wide ranging experience includes advising on large global outsourcing projects to routine general commercial and IT contracts including IT master services agreements, SaaS/PaaS and cloud solutions, subscription agreements, software development and licensing, e-commerce platforms, managed service contracts and facilities management agreements, manufacturing and collaboration agreements, contracts for the supply of goods and services and NDAs.

James has 20 years' experience advising clients on commercial and IT matters. Much of James' work is for education institutions (such as universities and schools) and technology companies (including start-ups and university spin out companies). He does however work across a number of sectors and spent 6 months acting as interim GC for a UK airport providing general legal support on various strategic projects and their day-to-day commercial and IT contracts.

James provides commercial and pragmatic advice and is able to bring his knowledge and expertise in negotiating commercial and IT contracts for the benefit of his clients, no matter the sector.

Recent noteable work includes:

• Advising a UK university on its multi-million pound government funded project to build an AI super-computer to be used for national research purposes
• Advising an international airline on various agreements for the outsourcing of its business critical passenger services systems
• Advising a cyber security company on the license of its IP (including knowledge transfer) to develop its product for US government, military and defence applications
• Avising a county council on its framework agreement to grant access to council assets for the installation of telecoms equipment to improve 5G connectivity across the county

James also works across other teams, namely the Technology sector team, and the Education sector team.

He is based in our Birmingham office, but can support you nationally.