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. He is dual-qualified as a US
attorney, and he spent eight years practising law in
Washington DC.
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. Chambers Legal Directory
ranks him as a "star individual" in IT law, and Computer
Weekly has called him “an ever trenchant interpreter of the
law.”