The regulatory and administrative framework within which the IT industry operates can be burdensome and bureaucratic and can affect both public and private sector organisations, large and small.
The issues arise in connection with public sector projects involving the IT procurement rules and best practice principles as well as for clients in regulated industries such as utilities and other former state monopolies, the banking and finance, pharmaceutical and healthcare sectors.We bring together cross-departmental service for clients, combining expertise and experience of lawyers working in the relevant industry sectors and jurisdictions. Our clients are public and private organisations, including a cross section of blue-chip companies as well as suppliers and service providers in the IT industry.
We work side-by-side with our clients to resolve and manage the issues and to ensure compliance within the letter and spirit of the operative framework. We work with clients to find commercial solutions to regulatory issues.
Our key services in this sector include advising in connection with:
- Public procurement rules, including best practice principles, relating to the purchase of IT systems and services, including in connection with outsourcing projects
- Other sector-specific procurement rules relating to utilities and former state owned monopolies
- Data protection and privacy principles, lodging notices, obtaining certification
- Regulatory compliance, such as may affect the banking and finance sectors and other regulated industries, obtaining licences and authorisations, security and data protection
- Regulations relating to the protection of employee's rights on the transfer of businesses
- Trade union notification and negotiation
- Competition and anti-trust issues
- Dispute resolution