Peter Lumley-Savile

Peter advises on outsourcing, hotel and franchise agreements, consultancy, agency, distribution, advertising, manufacturing, supply, joint ventures, product endorsement, sponsorship, and professional engagement agreements.

• Advised Sports Direct on various high-value commercial matters, including the commercial arrangements relating to the exploitation of the Rangers Football Club brand and the Stadium Sponsorship Agreement.
• Drafted the precedent global master framework agreement for a major international accounting firm’s outsourcing and business services division.
• Negotiated supply agreements on behalf of a semiconductor manufacturer in respect of the purchase of production critical parts.
• Advised a property fund on the terms of its franchise agreement for the conversion of a hotel into the Marriott Autograph line.

Peter specialises in delegated underwriting, claims handling, broker relationships, affinity schemes, white-labelling, liability exclusions, and due diligence for insurance-related corporate transactions.

• Advised Royal & Sun Alliance Insurance Plc on the Argos and Homebase Pet Insurance Affinity Scheme Agreement.
• Advised RSA Insurance Plc on the software development agreement relating to the development of a new bespoke pet claims handling system.
• Advised the Lloyd’s Market Association on a number of market-wide outsourcings – including core central services supplied to the market by Xchanging Plc and, most recently, the provision of shared services into the Singapore Lloyd’s market.

Peter advises on IT procurement, software licences, maintenance, hardware support, disaster recovery, facilities management, NDAs, consumer and distance selling terms, and data protection registration and compliance.

• Advised a Lloyd’s Managing Agent on the outsourcing of its IT Infrastructure, applications support and claims handling services.
• Advised the Lloyd’s Market Association on data protection and other issues relating to the key market-wide outsourced insurance administration services agreement for all Lloyd’s managing agents.
• Advised the National Trust on the second-generation outsourcing of its CRM hosting services following a significant dispute with the incumbent supplier.

Peter advises on IP licensing, branding strategy, trade mark protection, confidential information, know-how protection, music industry contracts, sponsorship agreements, R&D collaborations, and terms and conditions of trade.

• Advising the press industry on the contractual arrangements relating to the press regulator following the Leveson enquiry.
• Advised a Lebanese book publisher on contractual arrangements arising out of a joint venture with a major UK publisher and on a dispute relating to the exclusive publishing rights of educational titles in the Middle East.
• Advised a leading UK automotive small ads publisher on the licensing in and out of digital rights including in respect of website content, search functionality and the white labelling of dealership websites on a managed-services basis.
• Advised on a wholesale distribution agreement for Associated Newspapers.