James Humphrey-Evans
James Humphrey-Evans
James Humphrey-Evans
UK & Europe Founder
UK & Europe Founder
James Humphrey-Evans
James Humphrey-Evans
- (646) 240-4836 [US]; +44 20 3691 3132 [UK]
- jhumphreyevans@blegalgroup.com
James has extensive experience advising clients on a wide variety of technology, procurement and governance matters. Over the years, he has provided close daily support to in-house procurement and technology teams, assisting them to achieve their commercial and risk management goals on numerous software, cloud, consultancy, market data, index licensing and other transactions. James has worked with compliance and risk departments to help organisations comply with regulatory requirements affecting IT and operations functions. James has also advised on the IT aspects of recovery and resolution strategies for investment banks, having first-hand experience of resolving the legal issues arising after the insolvency of a major investment bank. In addition, James advises on open source licensing and is a BlackDuck certified legal professional.
Acting as lead counsel on data centre deals in the U.S., Europe and Asia and on global network agreements, James has also advised IT management on BPO and IT offshoring strategy and the establishment of ITO operations in Central and Eastern Europe. Further, as a former in-house privacy officer for European operations of a global investment bank, James brings his deep understanding of compliance matters to the practice of law. A recognised expert on legal aspects of financial services IT, James has spoken at conferences on market data and banking IT.
Outside of financial services, James has advised on technology aspects of airliner purchases (including for Airbus A380s), energy projects in the Middle East and on large rail projects.
Selected Professional Activities
Panellist at FIMA Market Data Conference, London UK
Speaker at COSSIOM (French market data users association), Paris, France
Presenter at the Bank IT Lawyers Conference, Frankfurt, Germany
Lecturer on common law legal systems and on IT Law at University of Munster, Germany
Member of the Society for Computers & Law, UK
Employment History
Mitsubishi UFJ Securities 2010 to 2013
Nomura 2008 to 2010
Lehman Brothers 2008
Barclays 2004 to 2008
Allen & Overy 1999 to 2004
Global Procurement
Assisting IT management team with evaluation of potential locations for offshoring, liaising with foreign counsel to create short and practical overviews of legal issues in those locations
Advising on ATM maintenance outsourcing for major bank
Review of investment bank vendor portfolio to assess compliance with regulatory requirements on outsourcing
Implementing major novation and renegotiation exercise across vendor base following post-insolvency acquisition
Negotiation of numerous ITO and BPO deals for investment banks
Working with Mumbai-based Legal and Procurement teams to create global procurement processes
Outsourcing of IT and telecoms infrastructure for a trading platform operator
IT infrastructure outsourcing for asset manager
Renegotiation of terms for trading platform with a major market data provider
Information security & privacy
Advising on intra-group information sharing policy
Negotiating cloud-based employee feedback and appraisal system for wealth management firm
Advising on IT security outsourcing by retail bank
Advising investment bank on unauthorised usage of data and software by team of former employees
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