Information technology

Advised a national charity on a critical new IT roll out that involved the replacement of its EPOS (Electronic Point of Sale) systems, financial software and related hosting and other services. This was part of a major overhaul of our client’s retail system and involved giving them flexibility on equipment, payment methods and use of mobile devices, as well as extra flexibility in terms of payments. Our advice involved structuring and negotiation of the deal, and the subsequent contract management, co-ordination of different suppliers and ongoing support – covering the whole process and made sure that a consistent process resulted in an agreement giving our client the flexibility and control that it needed.

Advised a national government body on the extension of an existing large scale complex IT services contract covering multiple IT service groups, such as, Data Centre & Hosting Services, Application Management Services, End User Devices, Networks & Telephony and Print Services. We also advised on certain service groups that will need to be removed from the scope of the extended contract prior to expiry, along with the complex pricing and the savings to be made across the service groupings under the restructured contract.

Advising Rapiscan Systems Limited and its parent, OSI Systems Incon patent infringement proceedings brought by American Science & Engineering and, at the same time, a revocation action at the UK Intellectual Property Office relating to one of Rapiscan’s backscatter x-ray detection patents. We were able to instantly provide them with a dedicated team which understands Rapiscan’s commercial and technical objectives, dealing with a dispute that is valued in excess of £10 million, listed with technical difficulty rating of 4, and with a five day trial listed for March 2016.

Advised one of the ‘big six’ energy suppliers in a claim for damages in excess of £30m against the main supplier of IT outsourced services for business-critical services such as on-line servicing bookings, virus/security protection and the system allowing trading on the energy futures market. We gathered large amounts of complex IT-related evidence and advised the main board on its strategy for the claim and for the potential termination of the contract.

Providing business critical advice to the National Audit Office on the replacement of its Oracle based Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system for HR, payroll and finance business related activities.

Advising Image Scan Holdings plc on its equity fundraising on AIM by way of a firm placing, conditional placing and directors' subscription.