JP is a tech-savvy corporate and commercial lawyer with a wide range of connections and interests. JP represents start-ups, scaling businesses, venture capital, co-founders, and platforms across all kinds of sectors and inventions. His clients are mainly located in London, Bermuda, Bristol, and Belfast. Over the past 20 years, JP has been Chief Legal Counsel to a Fin Tech open banking App, Company Secretary to 20 different companies, Non-Executive Board Director and Data Protection Officer (DPO) implementing GDPR solutions. Outside of law, he is a founder of tech forum Origin Circle, a Judge on the Ulster University Shark Tank, and is a patron of the global competition the Start Up World Cup.

JP works across three core legal services: Corporate, Commercial Technology, and Data Protection and Privacy law. His corporate law work includes venture capital, fund raising, M&A, reorganisations, shareholder agreements and share option schemes. Within commercial and technology he advises on Saas, Paas, fin-tech, open banking, app development, API licensing, and mobile operator agreements, and his data protection specialisms include GDPR toolkits, privacy notices and data sharing agreements.

  • JP can be relied upon to clearly understand the brief and give good pertinent legal advice and wise counsel.

    Catherine Mason
    Chief Operating Officer of Spire Healthcare PLC (former CEO of Allied Healthcare)

Corporate Law

  • Shareholder & Investment agreements for seed, series A, crowdfunding and private equity deals
  • Articles of association
  • Business reorganisations
  • Asset purchase agreements, share sales and vesting
  • Share option schemes (EMI & CSOP)
  • Share capital reductions, forfeiture, and buy-backs
  • M&A work plus support on resolutions, minutes, data-rooms, due diligence and company secretarial
  • Corporate governance policies & handbooks
  • Directors’ legal duties
  • D&O indemnities
  • Whistleblowing & bribery programmes
  • Non-Executive exits and appointments

Commercial Technology

  • Force majeure and frustration of contracts from COVID-19
  • Software as a Service & Platform as a Service
  • Commercial contracts (including master services agreements and licence agreements)
  • Reseller, franchise, supply and consultancy agreements
  • End-user licences
  • Website terms and conditions
  • Whitelabel & API contracts
  • Fin-tech & open banking
  • Telecoms, mobile network operator agreements (MNO & MVNO documents)
  • Software & application development agreements
  • Sandbox terms and conditions
  • Procurement & tendering

Data Protection & Regulation

  • GDPR compliance toolkits
  • Privacy impact and data protection impact assessments
  • Data breach procedures and investigations, and regulatory ICO enforcement
  • Privacy policies & privacy notices
  • Records retention & disposal advice
  • CCTV policies & consent forms for use of image rights
  • Data sharing, data processing and electronic marketing
  • “Lawful basis” reviews
  • Subject access requests & freedom of information
  • Chief Information Security Officer & Data Protection Officer support
  • Airport, water, transport, gas, electricity & energy regulation
  • Brexit support to Irish & UK governments