Freehills snares partner from DLA Piper
Herbert Smith Freehills has deepened its partner ranks, luring technology, media and telecommunications specialist Peter Jones from DLA Piper.
During his four years at DLA Piper, Jones oversaw the firm's technology sector coverage in Australia, headed up the Sydney faction of its intellectual property and technology group, and had regional responsibility for data protection, cyber resilience and information risks.
As well as technology contracting and outsourcing arrangements, Jones worked with other DLA Piper partners on mergers and acquisitions in the technology sector.
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Prior to DLA Piper, Jones spent 15 years at Gilbert + Tobin.
"Jones' appointment will bolster our already large and strong client offering in the TMT space," Herbert Smith Freehills head of corporate, Carolyn Pugsley, told Street Talk. .
"The scope of work and types of clients that our practice supports now extends well beyond technology in the traditional sense due to the emergence of information as an asset class, the implications of shared technology platforms, and competitive market pressure brought about by disruption and pending regulatory reforms. Increasingly the TMT practice leads corporate and commercial transactions where there is a technology or innovation element, or other technology enabled disruption involved."
Recent transactions led by Herbert Smith Freehills' Australian TMT team include advising the nbn on technology sourcing, technology transactions, software arrangements, IT security standards and regulatory advice and Orica on its investment in, and global IP partnership and go-to-market arrangements with, US tech start-up DataCloud, among others.
Jones will start at Herbert Smith Freehills in June.
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