Christopher Rees - Profile & Synopsis

Christopher co-heads Herbert Smith's Technology Media and Telecoms practice group. He has 30 years experience across a broad range of transactional, advisory and contentious matters, mostly in the technology sector. His practice covers system supply, outsourcing, M&A, IPOs, joint venture and financing transactions. He has guided clients through High Court litigation and mediation as well as ICC arbitration. Christopher has represented many of the world's leading businesses including Applied Materials, BAT, BP, Groupe Bull, EMC, Huawei, IMS Health, PwC, Toshiba and Time Warner and has acted for government agencies such as the Department of Health, the Department of Trade and Industry and the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority.

Christopher has recently retained his ranking as one of the top three of the world's IT lawyers (The Legal Expert Guide, 2008) and is a regular writer and lecturer on the subject of Data Privacy and Information Law. He is an active member of the industry group working on the preparation of a Contract and Policy Framework for Data Providers under MiFID. He is the co-editor of "Database Law" and has contributed chapters to Law Society publications on Data Protection and Freedom of Information. Christopher has been the Chairman of the Computer and Database Committee of the International Bar Association since 1996 and is a Trustee of the IBA Charitable Trust.

Credentials

soutsourcing for Cable & Wireless, EMC, GE Capital, AGCO, Northern Regional Health Authority, NHS Executive and Sita
AstraZeneca, Scottish & Southern and Watson Wyatt on large systems acquisitions
setting up the aircraft industry's global on-line registry for the filing of financial interests in aircraft
mandates for the acquisition or sale of companies or businesses from leading high tech businesses such as Applied Materials, Cadence, EMC and Phillips
Groupe Bull in the successful two year long defence of the action brought against it by Kwik-fit, which involved one of the first mediations of a system supply dispute
data privacy reviews for Colgate, IPC and IMS Health (involving 24 jurisdictions over a three year project) and Toshiba

Profile	Christopher Rees Partner, Co-head of the TMT group Herbert Smith
Christopher co-heads Herbert Smith's Technology Media and Telecoms practice group. He has 30 years experience across a broad range of transactional, advisory and contentious matters, mostly in the technology sector. His practice covers system supply, outsourcing, M&A, IPOs, joint venture and financing transactions. He has guided clients through High Court litigation and mediation as well as ICC arbitration. Christopher has represented many of the world's leading businesses including Applied Materials, BAT, BP, Groupe Bull, EMC, Huawei, IMS Health, PwC, Toshiba and Time Warner and has acted for government agencies such as the Department of Health, the Department of Trade and Industry and the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority. Christopher has recently retained his ranking as one of the top three of the world's IT lawyers (The Legal Expert Guide, 2008) and is a regular writer and lecturer on the subject of Data Privacy and Information Law. He is an active member of the industry group working on the preparation of a Contract and Policy Framework for Data Providers under MiFID. He is the co-editor of "Database Law" and has contributed chapters to Law Society publications on Data Protection and Freedom of Information. Christopher has been the Chairman of the Computer and Database Committee of the International Bar Association since 1996 and is a Trustee of the IBA Charitable Trust. Credentials soutsourcing for Cable & Wireless, EMC, GE Capital, AGCO, Northern Regional Health Authority, NHS Executive and Sita AstraZeneca, Scottish & Southern and Watson Wyatt on large systems acquisitions setting up the aircraft industry's global on-line registry for the filing of financial interests in aircraft mandates for the acquisition or sale of companies or businesses from leading high tech businesses such as Applied Materials, Cadence, EMC and Phillips Groupe Bull in the successful two year long defence of the action brought against it by Kwik-fit, which involved one of the first mediations of a system supply dispute data privacy reviews for Colgate, IPC and IMS Health (involving 24 jurisdictions over a three year project) and Toshiba