Speaker

Scott Singer

Partner, Head of Corporate and Commercial Division, Dentons

Scott is the Head of Dentons’ Corporate and Commercial Division. Scott specialises in commercial contracts, IT and data privacy law and is directory-ranked in all of these areas.  Scott is particularly well known for his work in the retail sector, where he advises a number of the UK’s best known names on the high street.

Scott is ranked in Chambers 2017 as a leading practitioner for commercial contracts, which recognises he “has considerable experience across a range of commercial matters. He has a reputation for handling strategically significant large-scale agreements for market-leading and brand-name clients”. Scott has acted for many household names on large-scale commercial deals involving supply of goods and services, joint ventures, distribution agreements, transportation, logistics, marketing agreements, design and manufacturing agreements and consultancy agreements.

Scott is a member of Dentons’ Band 1-ranked IT and Telecoms team and is an expert in IT, outsourcing, payments transactions, software law and the exploitation of databases. He was previously a computer programmer and draws on this background alongside 20 years’ experience advising in this field to enable him to share with his clients not just technical expertise, but also insight into what is contractually achievable in the market.  Scott focuses especially closely on deals involving payments, cloud services, Software as a Service (SaaS), agile development and deals with major technology vendors and has a keen understanding of current market positions. Scott is also very experienced at deals for major projects and IT outsourcings.

Scott is an expert in data privacy law and is one of the partners in Dentons’ Band 1-ranked team.  He has advised numerous data controllers and data subjects on all aspects of data privacy, including GDPR compliance, data breach, cyber risk, global data transfers, customer data and consents, data sharing, sale and purchase of databases, subject access rights, employee monitoring and data protection policies. Scott is recognised in directories “for his focus on practical solutions” (Legal 500 2017).