Iain Simmons
Iain is a senior commercial lawyer, with experience across multiple sectors and jurisdictions, specialising in technology, media and telecoms (TMT) and has held senior in-house, Head of Legal and General Counsel positions at a number of platform, technology and data businesses, from start-ups/scale-ups to multi-nationals. As an experienced commercial contracts lawyer and negotiator, Iain has helped both supplier and customer-side clients to achieve their business goals. He has advised start-up platform businesses on business-to-business SaaS agreements and SLAs, through to supporting household name corporates on their major multi-million pound outsourcing projects, including in heavily regulated sectors such as financial services, telecoms and utilities. Iain has a breadth of legal experience, including contract/consumer law, corporate law and governance, M&A, IP, AI/technology, Data Privacy/GDPR and dispute management & resolution. Iain has a good understanding of how to create and maintain business value, and how to balance this against managing legal risk and compliance, working with senior management, boards and key external stakeholders such as lenders, investors, shareholders and regulators. · Arbor Law
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Senior commercial lawyer based in England at Arbor Law, specialising in Technology, Media & Telecoms (TMT) with extensive senior in-house experience across platform, technology and data businesses from start-ups/scale-ups to multinationals. Experienced commercial contracts negotiator who has advised on B2B SaaS agreements and SLAs, major multi-million pound outsourcing projects and has a breadth of experience including corporate law and governance, M&A, IP, AI/technology, Data Privacy/GDPR and dispute resolution.