Stuart Padgham
As a lawyer you’re often given a privileged window into clients’ businesses. There’s nothing more rewarding than understanding a client’s business and then helping that business grow, by means of successful transactions or avoiding legal risk by putting in place appropriate policies and procedures.
My experience as a commercial technology lawyer spans national, West End and Magic Circle firms and encompasses a broad range of commercial matters (including distribution, manufacturing, outsourcing, licensing and management arrangements) together with technology contracts and data protection compliance. Prior to founding Tacit Legal, I was head of Commercial at a leading national law firm.
My clients range from successful SMEs through to the in-house teams of FTSE-listed corporates. Recent matters I’ve advised on include:
- the commercial contracts underpinning two new “Institutes of Technology”;
- the procurement of a new medical records and online appointment system for a large healthcare charity; and
- the commercial and policy documentation supporting the establishment of a global finance industry body.
As a firm, Tacit Legal isn’t “one size fits all.” Instead, we’re focused on the delivery of technology and media legal services to our clients. Every aspect of our business – from our lawyers through to our “back office” – aims to deliver those services as efficiently, smoothly and expertly as possible.
As a team, we continuously review our ways of working so that we can best serve our clients, making changes and updating our processes and technology when we see opportunities to do so. In this way we believe that we enable our clients to achieve more.
Articles
The nature of software
The seemingly simple question as to whether software as a service should be seen as goods or services from a legal perspective has been answered in a recent UK High Court case.
Data (Use and Access) Bill: innovation or more of the same?
This new parliamentary bill attempts to unlock the value of data in a rapidly digitising world, but does it deliver the transformative change it hoped to?
AI – the UK’s current and future regulatory regime
A number of regulators have independently published guidance, reviews and consultations. However, when might we see a more uniform approach, and what might it look like?
ICO consults on controllership across the GenAI supply chain
The ICO is conducting a consultation on whether the relationship between developer and consumer of LLMs is controller-controller, joint controller, or controller-processor.
An end to the Commercial Agents Regulations?
The government is consulting on the commercial agents regulations. As one of the EU derived regulations that stand most at odds with the general approach in the UK, what might their future be?
The valuable information hidden in your business-as-usual contracts
Your BAU contracts could be hiding a wealth of management information. We show you where to look for it and how to unlock its value.
Five steps to managing risk in your business as usual contracts
Out of necessity, legal teams tend to focus on critical and higher values contracts. But in most organisations it is possible that the unreviewed contracts are collectively more valuable or risky. How do you go about managing contract risk at scale?
Every organisation’s hidden resource
From keeping their organisation secure to uncovering income-generating opportunities, in-house legal teams are a valuable business resource.