Sebastian has experience advising on a range of technology and general commercial matters for clients across a variety of industries including AI, IT outsourcing, digital transformation, BPO, SaaS, software licensing transactions and sponsorships.

Sebastian also has experience in assisting and advising clients on the interpretation, negotiation and drafting of a wide range of complex commercial contracts. He enjoys the challenge of developing bespoke and tailored commercial agreements which distil complex IT and IP requirements into digestible commercial arrangements that protect a client’s interests, especially its IT and IP assets.

Some of Sebastian’s work highlights include:

• Advising a sports body on use of AI, retail ticketing agreements and ticketing platform software agreements.
• Projects on implementing external AI tools, including advising on AI governance and contracting for AI.
• Advising on a large-scale data centre colocation and connectivity agreement.
• Negotiating a complex licence agreement for a technology tool in the energy sector.
• Commercial due diligence on large corporate acquisitions in the telecoms sector.

Before training at Bristows, Sebastian worked for a global foreign exchange company, advising on a variety of matters including supplier contracts, global IT projects and cloud migration.

During his training, Sebastian went on secondment to a global IT Services and Consulting company, where he assisted with day-to-day IT-related matters, advising on complex IT transactions.

Most recently, he completed a long-term secondment working in-house with one of the world’s leading AI businesses, advising on a range of complex contractual and regulatory matters relating to AI.

Working on secondment has given Sebastian a crucial understanding of the need to provide clear, succinct and pragmatic advice to clients.

Sebastian also contributed to the Society of Computers and Law EU AI Act Contractual Clauses, which gives high-level guidance around the impact of the EU AI Act on contracts.

He is a member of the Society for Computers and Law, Law in Sport and has written for the Intellectual Property Society of Australia and New Zealand.