Matthew Godfrey-Faussett
Partner
Matthew has specialised for over 17 years in all aspects of Information Technology and commercial law, most frequently working with banking and other Financial services clients.
Matthew's experience
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Advised the US healthcare telemedicine provider American Well Corporation, in relation to the commercial and contractual arrangements associated with its integration and operation of newly acquired affiliated businesses in the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland.
- Cross - borders
- Professional & Public Services
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Advising a Financial services firm on developing and operating solutions through which we replaced the legal support function previously embedded within that client's procurement division and subsequently provided legal support required to negotiate commercial contracts concerning purchases of IT and wider services consumed by our client in running its business.
- United Kingdom
- Financial Services
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Providing the legal support required to develop a new suite of template contracts that our client now uses when entering into contractual arrangements with its key IT and wider service providers.
- United Kingdom
- Technology & Digital Markets
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Advising an FTSE 100 global insurance and asset management company on its entry into a contract to use Co-Pilot for GitHub as a gen-coding tool. This involved reviewing and advising on the contractual documentation and preparation of a briefing note for senior stakeholders.
- United Kingdom
- Wealth Management
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Advising our client in relation to contracts governing the licensing and use of our client’s online mental health and well being products within health care provider and large private sector businesses.
- United Kingdom
- Health
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Advising an FTSE 100 global insurance and asset management company on using Microsoft Azure Open AI and entering a trial for Microsoft Co-Pilot. Reviewed contractual documentation and prepared a use case risk matrix to enable the client to assess the level of risk for each of its intended use cases.
- United Kingdom
- Financial Services
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Advising our client in relation to the procurement of a series of 8 IT service contracts and product licensing agreements that were central to our client’s ability to implement a new cyber security strategy which was in part required to address regulatory compliance requirements.
- United Kingdom
- Oil & Gas
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Advising our client in relation to numerous contracts under the terms of which our client’s online mental health management products and associated consulting services have been licensed to primary health care providers in the UK, Ireland, US and Australia.
- Cross-border
- Technology, Science & Industry
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Advised a listed Swedish manufacturer of products for mass separation and heat transfer on an acquisition of a German holding company with multiple international subsidiaries.
- Germany and Sweden
- Technology, Science & Industry
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Advising a client on procuring inter-related contracts for a new online ticketing solution, developing the access portal, creating a wide area network linking ships, ports, and administrative locations, and installing Wi-Fi across the fleet of vessels.
- United Kingdom
- Technology, Media & Telecommunications
Credentials
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2000Qualified - Scotland
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1998Joined Pinsent Masons
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1996Qualified - England and Wales
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1994College of Guildford – Dip LP
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1988University of Leeds – BSc (Hons) Biology (Combined Sciences)
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