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Addleshaw Goddard offers a full range of legal services in all major jurisdictions and economic centres worldwide.

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Africa

Africa is a global economic bright spot, providing exceptional opportunities for growth, innovation and expansion. Our experience spans work in energy and resources to the rapid emergence of the middle-class consumer market covering food and drink, retail, financial services and telecommunications.

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The Americas

The Americas offer a rich variety of business development opportunities and challenges and our experts have many years' experience across the continent.

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Asia

We have a substantial presence in the fastest growing economic region in the world advising an enviable portfolio of local Asian clients and international corporates.

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Europe

As well as our UK and Germany offices we have close, well established, working relationships with leading independent full service firms.

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The GCC

Our GCC presence comprises offices in Dubai, Oman and Qatar and our lawyers are all long-term residents in the region.

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Where we don't have offices we combine with like-minded correspondent firms to deliver an international capability in all major jurisdictions and economic centres worldwide.

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Simon Lofthouse

"Simon is very commercial and business focused, refreshingly not a lawyer that fails to understand the commercials or block a deal" FTSE 100 client

Partner, Technology and Outsourcing

United Kingdom

Expertise

Simon is a Partner in the Technology and Outsourcing team. He has significant in-house experience from four secondments: with a multi-national FTSE 100 manufacturer, a major financial institution, a multinational insurance company and Aegon.

Experience

Simon works across a number of sectors, he regularly advises clients and negotiates agreements in connection with:

IT, facilities management, business process and other commercial outsourcing arrangements (both single source contracts and multiple supplier environments, often parallel negotiations)
Supply chain contracting, including the design, development and procurement of technology
Software licensing and distribution, including SaaS transactions
Website terms of use and privacy policies
General commercial agreements, including distribution, agency, logistics, and standard T&Cs

Professional memberships

Member of the Society for Computers and Law

Simon Lofthouse

Industrials Brochure

This brochure provides an overview of our expertise and experience in the Industrials sector.

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Software under licensing

We have seen several of the major IT suppliers seeking to make multi million pound claims against large organisations who have customers, suppliers and/or employees using systems which connect directly and/or indirectly (and in some instances to a very limited degree) into the IT suppliers' software. Software under licensing disputes (and related claims concerning alleged indirect use and/or indirect access to systems), can therefore arise in all businesses, across all sectors – particularly those organisations with large IT systems.

We have resolved many such disputes and continue to assist clients in substantially reducing/eliminating these claims. We acted on the leading case in this area (SAP UK Limited v Diageo Great Britain Limited [2017] EWHC 189 (TCC)).

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