Shane Hubbard is a special counsel in the firm's Technology and Sourcing practice group. With extensive experience in technology, commercial contracts, and intellectual property, he delivers high-value and complex supplies of goods and services. He also drafts and negotiates outsourcing contracts for clients across various sectors, including financial (insurance and banking), healthcare, life sciences, energy, utilities, retail, aerospace, and technology. Shane frequently negotiates contracts with challenging cross-border issues between the USA, UK, EU, and Middle East.
Specifically, Shane’s experience consists of drafting, negotiating and advising on:
- Software and Applications: software/technology licensing, including end-user licensing, both on-premise and cloud computing (SaaS/PaaS/IaaS/DaaS/CPaaS), software development agreements, proof of concepts/trials, and support & maintenance agreements.
- Artificial Intelligence: contract drafting, regulatory compliance (e.g. EU AI Act), and AI frameworks.
- Website: Drafts terms of use, privacy policies, cookie policies, acceptable use policies, portal terms, e-commerce agreements, and ensures user accessibility and compliance.
- Goods/Hardware: Drafts and negotiates supplies of goods and hardware across sectors, including consignment arrangements and loaning of equipment.
- Service Contracts: a broad range of experience on service contracts, including consultancy, exhibitions, labour-as-a-service/augmentation services, service credit regimes/service level agreements, transitional/interim services, public relations services, creative and marketing services.
- Data Sharing: data sharing agreements and API licensing agreements.
- Commercial IP: IP ownership and licensing, including arrangements involving jointly owned IP.
- Collaborations: reseller, distribution, introducer, intermediary, agency, and referral agreements, as well as research and development (cross-sector), teaming, partnership, and cooperation agreements.
- Outsourcing: Specializes in customer outsourcing of goods and services, from service-specific outsourcing to transformational and global outsourcing arrangements.
- Public Sector Procurements: Advises on drafting and negotiating public sector contracts and provides broader regulatory advice under the Procurement Act 2023. Examples include consortium bidding, preliminary market engagement, navigating tender documents and frameworks/call-off contract mechanisms (including G-Cloud and other CCS Frameworks), selection, bid submissions, evaluations, raising/responding to clarifications, supporting negotiation phases, and award criteria.
