What can I do for you
Sophie is a technology and data privacy lawyer in Mills & Reeve's top ranked commercial team.
If you are either a company selling your digital products or services, or a customer buying technology, whatever your size or scale, Sophie can help.
She can support you on a wide range of legal matters, including:
• IT contracts, including software, SaaS, cloud and AI licensing, development and reseller agreements
• Online contracting, including website terms and privacy policies
• IT infrastructure and hosting
• Major IT procurements and outsourcing
• UK GDPR compliance
• Data processing and data sharing agreements
• International data transfers
Sophie also offers a one-stop outsourced GC service for start-ups and scale-ups not yet ready to take on an in-house lawyer.
Sophie works predominantly within the technology, health and government sectors. She is a leading member of our health tech, women’s health (FemTech) and NHS digital transformation teams.
Supporting your ambitions
Sophie has helped over 30 NHS organisations to successfully buy and implement electronic patient record systems critical to the organisation's and the Government’s plans to transform, modernise and digitise healthcare service provision across the country. This typically involves support on the development of the procurement documentation and draft contract, clarifications and evaluation during the bid process, and leading the contract finalisation process with the winning bidder. Recent clients include Royal Papworth Hospital, Sheffield Teaching Hospitals and the Department of Health and Social Care Northern Ireland.
Sophie has also supported Speechmatics, a leading automated speech recognition technology provider on a range of contractual, data and policy matters over a number of years as it has scaled-up its business. She has helped develop and update Speechmatics' standard terms to meet the needs of the company as it brings new products and services to market, advised on data collection and use queries and negotiated agreements with key customers in a way that enables the right commercial and risk balance to be achieved for both sides to the arrangement.
What do others say
Sophie is proud to have been ranked as a 'Next Generation Lawyer' for IT law in both Legal 500 and Chambers & Partners for a number of years. Feedback from clients describes her as 'approachable and engaging and takes a clear pragmatic approach'.
What else should you know
Sophie leads our Inspiring Women in Tech group and also co-hosts our Talking Digital Health podcast.