Jacky is a commercial lawyer with experience in a range of technology, commercial contracts, IP and data protection matters.

Jacky has acted for clients ranging from leading global multinationals to early-stage companies across sectors such as retail, IT, healthcare, energy and financial services.

He has particular experience in technology focused contracts (IT services, software development and licensing, SaaS, SLAs, supply, manufacturing and distribution agreements, white label and collaboration agreements).

Jacky has advised on a variety of non-contentious IP issues (including source code licensing, open source software, assignment and infringement). He also advises corporate buyers and sellers in M&A transactions and data protection matters (drafting privacy notices, compliance policies and data subject access requests (DSAR)).

Jacky supports clients by providing training to legal teams and working with key stakeholders in creating internal policies and best practices to navigate the evolving regulatory landscape on key areas such as the EU Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA), GDPR and AI.

Jacky trained at DLA Piper, where he completed a secondment to Unilever advising on a wide range of commercial, sports sponsorships and endorsements, advertising and IP matters. Jacky also worked in-house at a leading US private equity backed software and payments company where he acted on various supply of goods and services, payment, technology litigation and AI matters.