Nick’s experience includes both advisory and transactional work. He works on a variety of transactions and projects, including licensing, sponsorship, transitional, collaboration, distribution, outsourcing and data protection agreements.
Nicholas Phillips
Associate
Nick advises on complex commercial agreements across various sectors, with particular expertise in non-contentious intellectual property, data protection and information technology.
Expertise
Experience
Representative matters
The acquisition of a leading Premier League Football Club, and various commercial agreements (including sponsorship, supply and retail, kit manufacturing, and production agreements).
A public petroleum and natural gas company on its strategic partnership with Aston Martin Formula 1, including a long-term sponsorship and licensing agreement.
The acquisition of a minority stake in a Formula 1 team.
A leading online e-commerce store on its acquisition of a NFT platform.
A global healthcare company on the disposal of various consumer healthcare products by way of auction.
Apax Partners on their acquisition of WGSN Limited from Ascential plc for a total enterprise value of up to GBP700 million.
Apax Partners on their acquisition of Alcumus from Inflexion.
A multinational telecommunications company on their GBP31 billion deal with Telefónica to merge Virgin Media and O2.
3i Infrastructure on its agreement to acquire Global Cloud Xchange.
A major financial institution on a long-term integrated services agreement for front, middle and back office support and operations, to enhance investment lifecycle management for a global asset management firm.
A European insurance group on a strategic technology transformation project, involving the implementation of a sophisticated asset management platform to enhance their investment technology infrastructure.
Pro bono
A global conservation organisation on the licensing of intellectual property.
A children’s cancer charity on data protection compliance.
An online mental health platform on its standard terms and conditions.
Published Work
- Nathan Charnock, Cynthia Shen, Hannah Coleman, Katharina Juenemann, Nicholas Phillips (2024) “How to capture IP created by employees and contractors”, Managing IP
Qualifications
Admissions
Admitted as a Solicitor (England and Wales), 2021
Academic
LLM, Commercial Law, BPP Law School, 2019
LLB, Law, Newcastle University, 2018
Languages
English
Disclaimer
A&O Shearman was formed on May 1, 2024 by the combination of Shearman & Sterling LLP and Allen & Overy LLP and their respective affiliates (the legacy firms). Any matters referred to above may include matters undertaken by one or more of the legacy firms rather than A&O Shearman.