James Taylor

Mr. Taylor’s recent experience advising on technology matters includes the following:

• A fintech company on its set-up and running of a private blockchain utilised by a consortium of financial services companies to clear and settle payments.*
• A multinational technology company’s wearables team in respect of a sub-study on a clinical trial involving the analysis of patient data.*
• A Swiss cryptocurrency exchange in respect of whether proposed utility tokens were specified investment under UK financial regulation, the financial promotions regime and AML/KYC requirements.*
• A foreign government in respect of regulating distributed ledger technology and drafting new laws to give blockchain technology “legal personality.”*
• Drafting several initial coin offering terms of issue, mining-as-a-service agreements (involving agency implications for mining equipment) and platform terms.*
• A multinational technology company, advising on the difference between pseudonymisation and anonymisation as detailed in the Information Commissioners Office code of practice, Article 29 Working Party opinion and recent freedom of information case law.*
• A fixed-income trading platform with respect to repapering and negotiation of MiFID II compliant market rules and terms for participants, licensing platform technology to other exchanges in compliance with regulatory requirements (including audit, step-in rights and disaster recovery) and the purchase of transaction reporting service to ensure the platform and non-MiFID participants complied with MiFIR.*
• An English multinational investment bank in relation to its data licensing requirements for over 50 stock exchanges globally.*
• An FTSE 250 company that provides services to marine, oil and gas industries in relation to drafting its template bespoke software development agreement that incorporated schedules to reflect utilisation of both waterfall and agile development methodologies.*

* Denotes experience prior to joining Goodwin.