Clients appreciate Guy’s experience gained in house in engaging with all areas of a business, bringing stakeholders together, understanding their motivations and helping shape transactions.

General commercial and IP

Guy advises on a wide range of matters including IP licensing, IP assignments, service agreements, outsourcing (including business process outsourcing), procurement, sale and purchase of goods, standard terms and conditions, asset loans, collaboration agreements, facilities management agreements and RFPs and other bid processes.

Technology and telecoms

Experience in technology companies and a keen interest in coding and electronics mean that Guy understands the systems at the heart of the deals he works on.  This helps him bridge the gap between technical teams and the needs of the contract and spot and resolve issues that others overlook.

Guy’s technology work includes outsourced managed services, software and platform licensing, software development, IT support services, licensing and implementation of ERP systems (including SAP and Oracle), application management services, data migration, data centres, cyber‑security, research and development agreements, integration services, sale and purchase of hardware, support and maintenance services, off-shoring, telecoms, mobile phone networks, connectivity, networking and data licensing.

Media

Guy’s career began in television broadcast and production.  Clients appreciate that he speaks the language of media and understands their pressures and goals.  By combining his technology legal work with a deep understanding of the media sector, he has unique experience in deals for media technology systems and services.

Media production:

Presenter agreements, actor agreements, influencer agreements, musician hire, composer commissioning, crew hire, agent-talent agreements, manager-talent agreements, contributor consent forms, location agreements, production company services, footage licensing, stills licensing, equipment hire, live production services, venue hire, studio hire and post-production services.

Media deals:

Agreements for programme commissioning, film and programme acquisition, production of commercials, media campaigns, sponsorship, endorsement, naming rights, trailer production, animation commissioning and creation of television channel branding.

Media technology:

Agreements for television channel play-out, streaming platforms (live and VOD), media management, encoding, versioning, access services (including live subtitling, pre-recorded subtitling, audio description, in-vision signing), content discovery (including provision of metadata, programme descriptions and EPG content), media graphics systems and set-top boxes.

Legal training for procurement and sales teams

Guy provides training to in-house sales and procurement teams on essential legal basics for deal-makers and top tips for reducing negotiation, avoiding contracting pitfalls and getting deals through. 

Technology tips for in-house counsel

As technology becomes more complicated, it is hard for lawyers to keep up with the systems being traded in the contracts that they work on.  Guy presents sessions to in-house legal teams explaining the fundamentals of current technologies and addressing the legal issues that they present in contracts.

Recognition

On top of his usual client work, the pro bono legal help that Guy gives to charities and non-profits has seen him admitted to the Pro Bono Recognition List.