Technology and Commercial Transactions Solicitor

Technology and Commercial Transactions
Silver Circle Firm
Associate/Senior Associate
London
This leading Silver Circle law firm, has a wealth of experience in several practice areas, and has built lasting relationships with clients across several sectors, with a particular focus on asset management, financial services, technology and energy & infrastructure. Their clients include publicly listed and private companies, financial institutions and private equity firms, and other business enterprises involved in large and complex UK and cross-border matters, transactions and disputes.
The top tier Technology and Commercial Transactions ("TCT") Department covers a broad spectrum of technology and commercial contracts work, including the following areas:
Energy and Infrastructure
Key areas of expertise including advising on long term contracts that underpin investments in energy and infrastructure which deliver decarbonised or deglobalised solutions. These include heat networks, smart meter funding and rental, last mile networks for new residential and commercial developments and smart energy solutions.
Technology and Outsourcing
Key areas of expertise include advising on large scale, high value, critical outsourcings for consumers and suppliers. This covers the full range of outsourcing work from IT and business proven outsourcings to other bespoke forms of outsourcing. We also advise on large scale system implementations, cloud computing and software.
Data and Cybersecurity
Key areas of expertise include data protection audits and policy work, advice on online privacy policies and data collection and exploitation, responding to information security breaches and implementing international data transfers.
In addition, its lawyers work on supporting high profile M&A transactions, in particular on complex carve-out transactions involving transitional and long term contracts.
The TCT Department is made up of five Partners, two Senior Counsel, four Senior Associates, eight Associates, five Trainees and two Knowledge Counsel.
The team are seeking an experienced solicitor (4-7PQE) to work predominantly within the Energy & Infrastructure practice of the TCT team. As part of the role, you can expect a caseload including:

• Energy & Infrastructure: advising on long term contracts governing the delivery and infrastructure supporting energy supply, including for heat networks, smart meter rollout, air source and ground source heat pumps, renewable energy, last mile networks and fibre to the home/premises.
• Outsourcing: advising on high value and long term primary and secondary outsourcings of business critical functions across a range of sectors.
• M&A: advising on the buy and sell side of transactions, with a particular focus on complex carve-outs and the transitional and long-term arrangements put in place to support a transaction.

Please apply as directed or confidentially contact Aidan McAvinue at Search Legal for more information. Alternatively, if this role is not for you, I am working a variety of other Commercial Technology opportunities with ranked teams in the City London so would be interested to talk to any Commercial Technology lawyer.

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