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Charlotte Walker-Osborn, Partner

Charlotte Walker-Osborn

Partner

Practice areas

  • Commercial and IT
  • Data centers
  • Outsourcing and offshoring
  • Technology
  • Technology, Media and Telecoms
  • Transport

Practice notes

Brexit and the legal implications for businesses

Charlotte is Head of the UK TMT Sector.

Charlotte specialises in non-contentious IT law covering outsourcing, software and hardware agreements, services agreements, IT marketing agreements, e-commerce, data protection, and legal aspects of IT security.

Charlotte has acted on a number of major transactions for both private and public sector clients, including:

  • negotiating and drafting a global sales agreement for a leading technology vendor for global sales worth $180m with one of their top ten customers
     
  • advising Cisco Systems on various sales and technology and licensing agreements over a number of years
     
  • advising Siemens plc and Siemens Enterprise Communications Limited on various technology and commercial agreements
     
  • assisting in drafting and negotiating contracts for a major UK bank and its subsidiary companies for their internet share dealing facilities
     
  • advising and drafting documentation in relation to outsourcing of services in seven countries
     
  • advising the UK arm of a major electronics group on and drafting software development and maintenance contracts for a five party collaboration project for set top boxes
     
  • advising and drafting legal documentation in relation to the implementation of various IT systems for both private and public sector clients (for customers and suppliers).

In addition, Charlotte has undertaken a six-month secondment with Cisco Systems in their licensing and technology group.

Charlotte is the resident legal author to and committee member of the British Computer Society – Information Security Specialist Group. She has also written a large number of articles for and given interviews to the local and national press. She has contributed to two guides on IT security, including the IBM/CBI business guide to 'Protecting Your Business', 2001.

Brexit

The impact of Brexit will not be the same for all businesses. Our Brexit lawyers are working with a number of clients to help them with Brexit planning. We are helping them take steps to put themselves in the best possible position. For some clients, we have analysed the implications of Brexit on their business based on the different potential models of Brexit. We would be happy to discuss the potential implications of Brexit for your business too.

Contact Charlotte for more information on how Brexit may affect your business.

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