Experience
Sam Hodgson is a Senior Associate in the commercial and technology team at DWF. He has extensive experience in advising key clients on a wide range of matters focussed on:
- IT, including major strategic outsourcing agreements, deployment of AI, development licensing and delivery, cloud computing, distribution, and sale and purchase of IT/web assets;
- telecommunications, including site portfolio restructuring and divestment, supply of wifi at scale, distributed antenna systems, private networks, and small cells; and
- IP, including research and development, purchase and sale, licensing, and commercialisation.
Recent cases
Sam's recent work has included:
- Advising customers and providers in major mobile connectivity projects relating to English Premier League stadia.
- Advising central government on numerous complex and/or high value strategic matters, including the sale and transfer of IPv4s, and the open source licensing of software proprietary to the Crown.
- Advising a major national utility on all legal aspects of regulated procurements of high-value and business-critical technology contracts, including advising on selection criteria and legal assessment, and leading on complex multi-party negotiations up to conclusion.
- Advising both providers and customers extensively on the negotiation of all aspects of end-to-end Cloud services arrangements, including (in each case) in regulated procurement activities.