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Rem Noormohamed is a partner in our UK commercial team and based out of our London office.

Rem is an award-winning UK and international lawyer with extensive strategic advisory, transactional, regulatory, disputes and risk management experience and insight.

He is ranked by UK legal directories as a ‘leading individual’ and recognised as an expert in the field of AI, technology, telecoms, data privacy, cybersecurity, IP and UK/EU competition law; and for his complex business change and digital transformation work.

With first hand industry, commercial and operational experience, Rem offers clients a unique set of skills and capabilities, which combines 28 years of specialist legal with first hand professional IT/ telecoms engineering and management consulting experience - specifically in the area of business/operational process automation and digital change.

Client boards, senior leadership and inhouse legal teams single him out for his ‘deep tech and market knowledge, commerciality and business acumen’, ‘pragmatism and solution focus’; and for his ‘proactive, collaborative and inclusive style’.  

He acts for clients across the supply chain - from supplier-side (vendors, prime-/sub-contractors, VARs, distributors, consultants and agents) to buyer-side. His clients include:

•  Public sector (e.g. local, central and devolved governments, emergency services and health)

•  Universities

•  UK and overseas regulators

•  Registered charities

•  Listed corporates (FTSE250, NASDAQ, AIM), multi-nationals, and VC/PE backed fast growth, digitally disruptive and IP rich businesses - within aerospace, automotive, energy & renewables, financial services, food, life sciences, logistics, manufacturing, retail and TMT sectors.

Areas of Expertise

•  AL/machine learning (e.g. GenAI, LLMs, agentic, AGI, AI autonomy in safety critical systems etc): AI Act, regulation, governance, risk, compliance, contracting, IP rights, standards and ethics.

•  Blockchain, smart contracts, digital assets (e.g. NFTs).

•  Business change, business process automation (e.g. BPO, BPRs) and digital transformation: strategic advisory, business cases, RFPs processes, risk management, contractual arrangements (including transitional services, transformation, UATs and services performance, TUPE, exit).

•  Cloud (SaaS, IaaS, PaaS), edge computing and new ‘X-as- a-Service’ business models.

•  Complex Technology data driven and data centre and managed services projects (covering IT, OT, and SIAM arrangements).

•  Complex communications infrastructure and managed services projects (e.g. full fibre, fixed/wireless broadband, SD-WAN/LAN connectivity, 5G/6G mobile networks, deep sea, satellite (e.g. LEO), OSS/BSS arrangements, IoT and digital twins).

•  Connected and autonomous vehicles, smart cities and smart factories.

•  Cybersecurity strategy, regulatory compliance and breach/incident management.

•  Data strategy, data and workflow mapping, data privacy (GDPR, DPA, DUA Act), regulatory compliance and risk.

•  Digital media, content and OTT platform services arrangements.

•  Innovation/IP Rights: strategy, protection, management, commercialisation and competition law.

•  Risk strategy: identifying, assessing, prioritising, transferring, controlling and mitigating risk and impact.

•  Software development, licensing, open source, distribution, bundling, support services and systems integration.

•  Strategic sourcing (in, out, multi), RFPs, vendor evaluation, selection and contractual arrangements (including interim services, exit and extensions).

•  Quantum technology and compound semiconductor – applications and risk.

 

Wider Industry Experience 

•  Dual qualified as a solicitor and a professional IT/telecoms engineer, with a first career as a senior IT/telecoms engineering and management consultant, at a global consultancy;

•  Over 21 years of strategic leadership experience (e.g. as equity partner at national and global law firms with wider responsibilities e.g. CIO and management board member). As CIO (at a former national law firm), he was responsible for defining the digital strategy and successfully delivering its digital transformation programme and targeted business benefits;

•  Sits as a core expert on the Technology Advisory Panel to the Information Commissioner’s Office – supporting on developing policy and guidance to address the impact of emerging technology and new business models, on the privacy and rights of individuals;

•  Sits as a digital standards expert on ISO/IEC (international), CEN/CENELEC (EU) and BSI (UK) standards development committees for: AI, DLT/blockchain, ICT, IoT/digital twins, digital Identity, privacy, cybersecurity and quantum technology. He also sits as an expert member in BSI’s Digital Strategy Advisory Group;  

•  An editorial board of the 'Communications Law Journal' (Bloomsbury Publishing);

•  An Industrial Professor at the University of Bristol Law School and past Visiting Professor of Entrepreneurship at University of Plymouth, Business Faculty; and

•  A professional member of the British Computer Society (and sits on BCS Community Board), the Institution of Engineering and Technology ad Law Society for England and Wales;

•  A Non-Executive Director at Logistics UK and Charity Trustee at Crescent Purchasing Consortium, focussing on legal, regulatory risk, governance and compliance matters.