Profile

Sebastian advises on the full range of commercial arrangements, covering every aspect of clients' purchasing, production, marketing, selling, infrastructure, technology and e-commerce requirements.

He has particular experience of tailoring support for in-house legal teams, working closely with them. He has worked on secondment with clients, including time at a major retail bank.

His own area of legal specialism covers IT outsourcing, software licensing and development, IT systems acquisition, facilities management, electronic trading and other IT related matters.

He is client partner for some of the firm's most important clients.

Sebastian read geography at University College London and qualified as a solicitor in 1986. He joined Cameron McKenna in the City of London, advising on complex corporate, commercial and financial transactions. He spent two years working in Eastern Europe and the Middle East, living in Cairo and Warsaw, advising blue chip multinationals on all aspects of their commercial activity in those developing markets. Sebastian joined Shoosmiths in 1999.

Sebastian is identified as a leader in his field of Information Technology by Chambers and Partners

Areas of Practice

• Agency and Distributorship
• Agency Law
• Banking
• Commercial contracts
• Commercial Law
• Communications
• Consumer Law
• Contract Law
• Credit
• Distributorship Law
• E-Commerce
• Entertainment
• Finance
• Financial Services
• Franchising
• Gaming Law
• Import/Export
• Information Technology
• Insurance
• Internet and Cyberspace
• Joint Ventures
• Licensing
• Marketing
• Media
• Research and Development
• Science and Technology
• Technology
• Telecommunications