Will is a commercial lawyer with over 20 years’ experience advising on technology, procurement and outsourcing transactions, and capital projects in the mining industry.
Before joining Keystone Law, Will spent 9 years at FTSE 100 miner Anglo American Plc managing the legal aspects of the global and UK supply chain functions and subsequently heading up a dual legal and commercial function supporting major capital projects globally.
Expertise
Technology, Procurement and Outsourcing
- Outsourcing agreements (IT, HR, facilities management, logistics, finance and accounting)
- Global framework/alliance agreements
- Technology development agreements
- Collaboration agreements
- Agreements for the supply of goods and/or services
- Equipment leasing
- Software development agreements
- Software licences, maintenance, SaaS
- Data licences
- Sponsorship agreements
- Consultancy agreements
- Research agreements
- Templates
- Transitional services agreements
Capital Projects
- Prime contract strategy and structuring
- Structuring tender processes
- Professional services agreements (studies – concept, pre-feasibility, feasibility)
- Prime contracts (EPCM, EPC, integrated owner’s team, program management)
- Major purchase orders
- Site/construction contracts
Experience
Technology, Procurement and Outsourcing
- Advised an international oil and gas company on a series of global outsourcing arrangements: its global finance and accounting outsourcing, its US$400 global hosting services outsourcing, its integrated service desk outsourcing and its US$1.5bn IT outsourcing to 5 suppliers.
- Advised an international FMCG company on the restructuring of its global logistics outsourcing agreement covering the company’s global sea and air freight movements.
- Advised an international mining company on the renegotiation and extension of its global IT outsourcing arrangements.
- Advised a government department on the re-procurement of its outsourced IT services contracts worth over £100 million a year.
- Advised an international mining company on various global framework agreements for the supply of goods and services including for tyres, heavy mining equipment, and consultancy services.
- Advised an international mining company on the purchase, maintenance and operation of its fleet of autonomous mining trucks for its new copper mine in Peru.
- Advised an airline on its sponsorship of the 2012 Olympic Games.
- Advised an investment bank on a wide variety of software and data licences as part of an outsourced legal service.
- Advised an international mining company on its enterprise and other software licence and SaaS arrangements.
- Advised the administrators in relation to the technology aspects of the administration of the UK-based Lehman Brothers companies including putting in place complex transitional arrangements with the purchasers of the US Lehman Brothers businesses.
- Advised a UK-headquartered bank on a transitional services agreement in relation to the sale of its payment processing business.
- Advised a UK-headquartered bank on a transitional services agreement in relation to the sale of over 300 branches to another bank.
- Advised a New York-headquartered bank on a series of transitional services agreements in relation to the disposal of various of its European consumer banking businesses.
- Advised a mining company on separation and transitional arrangements in relation to a series of disposals in South Africa and South America.
Capital Projects
- Advised an international mining company on an agreement with a global contractor for program management, engineering, procurement and construction management services to support its major capital project in the UK.
- Advised an international mining company on various matters relating to its copper mine in Peru, including on its EPCM with a global contractor, construction contract claims and settlements, warranty issues, operational readiness and the transition to operations.
- Advised an international mining company on numerous professional services agreements for studies in relation to its projects in South Africa, Chile and Peru.
- Advised an international mining company on its agreement with a global contractor for mining services in relation to an underground project at its South African diamond mine.
- Advised an international mining company on its EPCM contract for a major expansion to its platinum mine in South Africa.
Financial Services
- Advised the administrators in relation to the technology aspects of the administration of the UK-based Lehman Brothers companies including putting in place complex transitional arrangements with the purchasers of the US Lehman Brothers businesses.
- Advised a UK-headquartered bank on a transitional services agreement in relation to the sale of its payment processing business.
- Advised a New-York headquartered bank on a series of transitional services agreements in relation to the disposal of various of its European consumer banking businesses.
- Advised a UK-headquartered bank on a transitional services agreement in relation to the sale of over 300 branches to another bank.
Energy
- Advised an international oil and gas company on a series of global outsourcing arrangements: its global finance and accounting outsourcing, its US$400 global hosting services outsourcing, its integrated service desk outsourcing and its US$1.5bn IT outsourcing to 5 suppliers.
- Advised an international mining company on the renegotiation and extension of its global IT outsourcing arrangements.
- Advised an international mining company on separation and transitional arrangements in relation to a series of disposals in South Africa and South America.
- Advised an international mining company on various global framework agreements for the supply of goods and services including for tyres, heavy mining equipment, and consultancy services.
- Advised an international mining company on its agreement with a global contractor for mining services in relation to an underground project at its diamond mine in South Africa.
- Advised an international mining company on the purchase, maintenance and operation of its fleet of autonomous mining trucks for its new copper mine in Peru.
- Advised an international mining company on its enterprise and other software licence and SaaS arrangements.
- Advised an international mining company on an agreement with a global contractor for program management, engineering, procurement and construction management services to support a major capital project in the UK.
- Advised an international mining company on various matters relating to its copper mine in Peru, including on its EPCM with a global contractor, construction contract claims and settlements, warranty issues, operational readiness and the transition to operations.
- Advised an international mining company on numerous professional services agreements for studies in relation to its projects in South Africa, Chile and Peru.
Please note: The experience list above may include examples of work completed prior to joining Keystone Law.
Career
Will qualified as a solicitor in 2001. Prior to joining Keystone Law, he worked at the following firms/companies:
- Bird & Bird
- British Airways
- Linklaters
- Anglo American