Outsourced general counsel

If you’re not ready to take on an in-house lawyer as your business grows we can provide you with the support you need with our outsourced general counsel service. Whether it’s corporate policies, fundraising, product development or licensing, disputes or employee matters, you can simply outsource your legal matters and we’ll ensure you’re on the right track.

We're the legal advisers behind some of the UK’s most successful technology organisations. With a dedicated relationship manager, and one point of call, we’ll ensure the right expertise is brought at the right time to steer you through.

Benefits of using our service

Legal support at the end of the phone as and when you need it.
Dedicated relationship manager who knows you and your business.
Bringing in the right expertise at the right time.
Helping you make strategic decisions now that will set you up for later growth, investment or divestment.
Access to our extensive networks, particularly investors.
Access to international markets – we're part of a trusted international best friend network across 119 jurisdictions.
Knowledge workshops, events and networking opportunities.

Working with Mills and Reeve has been a refreshing experience. The team made it easy for us to understand what we needed to know and enable us to be confident in taking the next steps in building the services and products we provide, including Myclinic.com.

Our clients

Corporate deals
We've supported many companies on their structuring, fundraising, contracts and policy over their lifecycle up to acquisition, including:
- DeepMind (AI) - sold to Google for $500million,
- Grapeshot (brand and campaign management technology) - sold to Oracle for $325million,
- Monoidics (code verification software) – sold to Facebook
- Firmstep (Government IT transformation services provider) – sold to US corporate Granicus.
Wellola - Europe's leading patient facing platform providers

We've worked with Wellola to develop its licensing and support model as well as contract terms for its secure Enterprise Portal (Portasana), together with data protection and privacy notices for patients and medical practitioners.

Wellola is one of Europe's leading patient facing platform providers offering video consultations, online assessments, appointments bookings and secure messaging.
Speechmatics - Autonomous speech recognition provider

We've worked with Speechmatics on a range of contract and policy/process issues as it scales-up its business, including refreshing its standard terms for new licensing models and helping design intra-company arrangements with its subsidiaries. Speechmatics has developed a number of autonomous speech recognition solutions, which help major media and broadcasting outlets’ to manage their content streams.
Formpipe - Leading provider of document management solutions to the banking and financial sector

We've worked closely with the team at Formpipe to develop internal processes for contract management and negotiation, advising on a new suite of standard contracts for different products and markets, as well as helping to develop corporate policies on privacy and security, modern slavery and anti-bribery.

Formpipe is one of Europe’s leading providers of document management solutions to the banking and financial sector.
Gearset - A leader in DevOps solutions for Salesforce

We've supported Gearset (a leader in DevOps solutions for Salesforce) since its spin-out from software company Redgate. This included initial company set-up needs such as company loan arrangements, business premises leases, standard employment contracts and an employee share option scheme, as well as day to day support on negotiations with customers and general employment and immigration issues.

Useful resources

18 September 2024

Insight

Listen Up as we explain dynamic pricing Little by Little

Dynamic pricing, which adjusts prices based on market demand using AI, has sparked debate in ticketing, most recently for the Oasis reunion tour. The Competition and Markets Authority are now investigating Ticketmaster for potential consumer protection breaches.

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5 min read

21 August 2024

Insight

Self-drive to survive: motorsport as a testbed for AI driving tools

This article summarises the 2024 AR2L autonomous vehicle motorsport race, and likens developments in AI self-driving technologies to the push for renewable and sustainable fuel/energy sources in motorsport (Formula 1, Formula E, Le Mans). Referencing technological developments such as hybrid engines, electric vehicles, hydrogen power and the R&D being conducted at manufacturers such as Tesla, Toyota and Williams Racing as example cases to indicate how sporting competition can drive innovation and safety for self-driving cars.

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5 min read

16 July 2024

Insight

Time waits for no one: an AI Bill is imminent

The Prime Minister, Keir Starmer, is set to introduce an AI Bill during the King’s Speech tomorrow.

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4 min read

9 May 2024

Insight

TECHtalk Q&A: Navigating the data protection tightrope to the USA…without falling off!

We received excellent delegate feedback to our most recent TECHtalk webinar, in which we considered the EU-US Data Privacy Framework (DPF), as well as the UK-US Data Bridge (Data Bridge): “As I've expressed before, one of the best, if not the best, sessions out there on Data Protection matters in my opinion”. We received lots of questions as well as part of the session, so in this Q&A, we answer some of those raised during the webinar, which we didn’t get time to answer during the TECHtalk.

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6 min read

8 May 2024

Insight

When smart devices go bad

Smart devices, or the Internet of Things (IoT) devices, have become a common and integral part of consumers’ lives. Therein lies an inherent problem, as the associated increased connectivity brings heightened cybersecurity risks. These risks can lead to cyber fraud, loss of personal data, as well as physical injury. They can also give rise to significant business disruption.

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5 min read

8 May 2024

Insight

Not on my video playlist! – Customer personal data

Roku, a prominent video streaming service provider in the USA, with approximately 80 million active users, recently identified that it had been subjected to two cyber attacks this year. The first came to its attention in March of this year, and it became aware of the second incident in April.

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4 min read

8 May 2024

Insight

Don’t let your AI chatbot get too chatty!

Earlier this year, leading parcel courier company, DPD, had a rather unfortunate experience with its use of its AI chatbot, following a system update to the chatbot.

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3 min read

21 March 2024

Webinar

Inspiring Women in Technology

A series of virtual discussions with leaders, key players and “up and coming” specialists in the tech scene on how women can break into the industry, overcome challenges and forge a meaningful and successful career in tech.

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1 min read

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