About

For over 25 years I've advised private and public clients on commercial and technology law. This requires an expertise in contracts, software licensing, intellectual property and data protection law.

I've gained this expertise by advising all forms of buyers and suppliers, helping startups protect and sell their creations to advising government departments and public sector bodies on multi-million pound procurement projects.

I'm passionate about fitting a common sense legal structure to the story of the deal. It's crucial to look beyond legal templates, because technology continually reinvents revenue exploitation possibilities, scope of license boundaries and the use of personal data.

Why do I love what I do? Because it allows me to be at the forefront of the development of tech law as it races to catch up with technological change.

Experience

Technology contracts

  • Creating and negotiating contracts for buying and selling technology. I concentrate on capturing the commercial transaction, rather than fitting the transaction to a template document
  • Advising IT suppliers on multi million GBP services provision to UK and ROI public sector bodies
  • Advising software buyers and suppliers on the use of open source, including code audits to log open source use
  • Advising on legal issues from web and app designs, particularly considering dataflows from project start to ensure compliance and to maximize privacy by design
  • Advising leading global financial intelligence suppliers on structuring subscription sales channels, whether direct or through channel partners and including via API or web access, or by database licensing
  • Advising US tech businesses setting up in UK or ROI

Commercial contracts

  • Drafting, reviewing and negotiating business contracts
  • Advising life-science clients on grant agreements, R&D projects and collaborations with universities and commercial consortia
  • Advising manufacturer clients on supply of goods and associated services In particular, I'm expert at matching my clients' commitments to their customers with the commitments my clients receive from their own suppliers
  • Advising suppliers to public sector bodies, negotiating the UK framework procurement structures to introduce terms protecting my client while complying with government template terms
  • Advising customers and suppliers in UK and ROI on major outsourcing projects, ranging from NHS services to the provision of finance industry services to European banks

Testimonials

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'Rory Campbell is very knowledgeable on data protection, public sector procurement channels for technology and commercial matters in general. He is pragmatic and commercial in his approach, and very pleasant to work with.'
Legal 500
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Services

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