Anthony Paine

Co-CEO & Co-founder

Designability

Designability is a national charity that creates innovative products and services with and for disabled people, removing barriers and helping them to live with greater independence.

Business Development Lead

King's College London

Supporting the brightest and highest potential ventures from across the King's ecosystem to reach their potential.

Expert in Residence

Stashbee

Advisor & Board Member

Stashbee is the simplest, smartest, most sustainable way for anyone to share and fill storage space. Whatever your situation or ambition, we have spaces of all sizes for people at all stages.

CEO & Co-Founder

Babbasa

Consultant

We believe that young people’s aspirations & opportunities should not be determined by their background, and that every young person has a unique skill or talent which, if explored and nurtured, can advance humanity in a significant way.

Head of Operations

Senior Business Engagement Lead

Founder Jumpstart

Giving entrepreneurs the mental tools to thrive

Chief Jumpstarter

Elixirr

Elixirr is a different type of consultancy. We challenge ineffective convention - changing the game in our own industry and helping our clients change the game in theirs. Everyone’s talking about the future, a new digital world, but few are doing anything about it. We deliver actionable strategies and practical implementation. We focus on short-term results and long-term transformation. 

That's why we are the UK's Best New Consultancy, as voted by the Management Consultancies Association (MCA).

www.elixirr.com

Manager

Career Journey International

Responsible for Career Journey International (CJI) in Brazil, including market entry & strategic planning, business development and operational oversight.

Head of Operations Brazil

Accenture

Technology Consultant

Diageo Portugal

Consumer marketing at Diageo Portugal.
Planning and implementation of national advertising campaigns, budget control & planning, deep dive product analysis, ROI/brand performance tracking.

Assistant Brand Manager - Whiskies & Wines

Warner Bros. Entertainment Group of Companies

Marketing Intern - Warner Home Video (New Releases)

⭐ Helping disabled people live with greater independence @ Designability
🚀 Supporting early-stage entrepreneurs @ KCL Entrepreneurship Institute
📦 Founder @ Stashbee

Biztech Lawyers

Launching the UK Office of Biztech Lawyers - a global law firm.

Head of UK (Lawyer)

Stephenson Law

Lawyer/Solicitor - Director and Head of Technology Law and Data Protection

Waterfront Solicitors LLP

I joined Waterfront as a trainee solicitor, became a partner in 2008 and took over as head of the Technology and Commercial Law Team in 2015.

Partner (Lawyer) - Head of Technology and Commercial Law

Macrovision

I supported the sole in-house lawyer for EMEA and worked closely with the US legal team.

Commercial Paralegal

Universal Music Publishing

Negotiating fees and drafting contracts for the use of music in commercials,  films, TV, computer games and occasionally (although only grudgingly) "the Web".

Saw a lot of live music. 

I loved this job. If they'd ever paid me more than £20k per year, I'd probably still be there.

Licensing Assistant

Freelance book-keeper for music and entertainment industry clients in 1990s Camden - including the Barfly Club, Food Records, Bluedog Records and Pacific Edge Events.

Went through carrier bags of receipts and rubbish and loaded the details (of the receipts, not the rubbish) into a computer system with a black and green screen.

Hung out with britpop and indie bands in the Good Mixer and the Barfly Club when I should have been studying.

Bookkeeper

Tuxedo Junction Restaurant

Served food in a Tex Mex restaurant/ cocktail bar.

Left when I discovered the manager stealing our tips.

Waitress

Pacific Communications Sciences, Inc.

Looked after an office of 20+ engineers.  Answered the phones, occasional filing, made sure we had the right amount of milk.

I wasn't very busy, and I had access to the Internet for the first time.  It was amazing,  even though there was no real search engine, and most of the stuff on the Internet was absolute nonsense.

Office Administrator

ALLIED DUNBAR ASSURANCE PLC

Checking life insurance application forms while listening to colleagues gossip. 

Laughing at how much more life insurance costs smokers, while chain smoking in an office owned by British American Tobacco. 

Some days I thought I might actually die of boredom.

Client Services Administrator

Tudor Tea Rooms

Served tea and toasted teacakes to bus-loads of tourists. They were frequently rude.  

My first introduction to workplace politics.

🚀Tech Sector Leaders🚀

Are you responsible for “legals” in a tech sector business?   
Do you need no-nonsense, pragmatic and commercial legal advice to help you get deals over the line and other legal matters sorted?  
If so, you've come to the right place!


📃Some of the contractual challenges you might be facing 📃

Are you unsure about which contract terms are worth arguing over?
Or signing up to warranties you’re unsure you comply with?
Are you worried about missing important points?
Or about what level of liability is “normal”?


🔒 Or maybe data protection and privacy is the thorn in your side 🔒

Does the phrase “GDPR compliant” make you queasy?
Do you worry about whether you need consent?
Have you received a confusing DPA?
Or been asked for a DPIA?


🧑🏻‍⚖️ Perhaps you already have lawyers, but:
- they struggle to understand what your product does and how it works
- they reel off lists of risks, without suggesting solutions.  
- they don’t help you get the deals done…


If any of the above is you - I CAN HELP!  I have spent 20 years helping hundreds of tech businesses:

📃 Negotiate complicated contracts faster 
🔏 Navigate the data protection maze.
🌎 Expand to the UK/EU


Hundreds of clients in every corner of the technology sector
Hundreds of millions of pounds worth of successfully negotiated deals.


So... what makes me different from the other lawyers you’ve come across?


🤖 I ‘get’ tech
- you won’t need to spend time explaining the environment that your technology works in.  
- In the unlikely event that I’ve never come across anything like what you’re doing before, I’ll make it my mission to learn all about it (on my own time).

🧑🏻‍💼  Sometimes it’s your customers legal team that you need to persuade… I can help you win them around by:
- helping them understand your offering
- reassuring them that you’re on top of your data processing and other legal obligations

🤝 I understand that there are times when your biggest risk is failing to seal the deal.  
- I’ll focus on genuine risks
- we won’t spend time arguing points that don’t matter. 

🔏I’m pragmatic about data protection and privacy.
- Yes, all businesses should comply with the law
- But there’s plenty of scope for reasonableness and a pragmatic, risk based approach


If you need help with any of the above, please don't hesitate to book a free, no-obligation call with me using the link above.

Specialties: Commercial Contracts, Technology Law, Intellectual Property Rights, Digital Media Law, Internet Law, E-Commerce Law, Consumer Law, Data Protection Law and Privacy Law.

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