Hamish Sandison is a partner in our Technology Law Group. He has a leading reputation
in technology law, with over 20 years’ experience advising UK
clients in the public and private sectors on major IT
projects. Prior to joining Field Fisher Waterhouse, Hamish
was a partner at Bird & Bird and was its Non-Executive
Chairman for six years.
Hamish specialises in commercial work for public sector clients, including IT procurement, major PFI and
PPP projects, large-scale business process outsourcing transactions, cutting-edge IPR and
e-commerce issues and alternative dispute
resolution. He also advises major users of IT systems and
services in the private sector and leading suppliers of IT to the
public sector.
He is a non-executive director of the National Computing Centre,
a member of the Council of EURIM (the European Information Society
Group), the Council of Experts of the Intellectual Property
Institute and the FAST (Federation Against Software Theft) Legal
Advisory Group. He has written and lectured widely on IT law and
intellectual property and is top-ranked in the UK legal directories
in the field of IT law. Computer Weekly has called him “an
ever trenchant interpreter of the law.”