Bio
Alasdair is a Regulatory Associate.
Alasdair advises businesses across a range of non-contentious commercial, data protection and intellectual property matters.
His commercial practice spans drafting and negotiating bespoke commercial agreements such as supply of goods and services agreements, terms and conditions, software as a service agreements, IT agreements, confidentiality agreements, distribution agreements, consultancy agreements, logistics agreements, master service and framework agreements, agency agreements, and intellectual property licences and assignments.
Alasdair also advises businesses on protecting and exploiting intellectual property rights (such as copyright, trade marks, design rights, and confidential information), including identifying intellectual property assets and assessing chain of ownership, and implementing measures to obtain ownership or commercialisation.
He supports businesses to manage risk relating to personal data and cybersecurity, advising on a range of data protection law and UK GDPR compliance matters including providing policy drafting and advice, drafting and negotiating data protection contracts and clauses for data processing and data sharing arrangements, and creating and delivering bespoke data protection training programmes.
Alasdair also regularly supports on commercial, data and intellectual property matters in connection with the sale or acquisition of a business.
Examples of Alasdair’s work include:
- Advising a football club on protecting its intellectual property and trade marks as part of a rebrand.
- Drafting and negotiating an intellectual property licence for a leading sportswear brand.
- Assisting a national bookseller with the integration of a new IT project involving multiple software suppliers.
- Drafting standard terms and conditions for an international delivery, installation, storage solutions, and third-party logistics supplier.
- Supporting a high-street gym brand with data protection and UK GDPR compliance.
- Drafting a template influencer agreement for a business with a popular gym and work mobile app.
- Drafting a commercial agency agreement for the supply of goods from an overseas manufacturer to large national retailers.