Clive Gringras

Practice Areas

Clive is an international-facing contentious and transactional technology lawyer working with Global 100 companies. Clive is trusted by these companies on high-stake matters ranging from first‑of‑a‑kind litigation to billion dollar technology-rich cross-border transactions. He is particularly experienced representing very large tech companies in regulatory investigations, litigation and artificial intelligence issues. He has also acted for businesses on hundreds of internet threats actions including spam, phishing, tech support fraud, and business email compromise.

Clive is rated as providing fast, pragmatic advice with a good UI. He is the only lawyer ever to receive Microsoft’s Law Firm Leader award. He is also a well-respected commentator: his book, Gringras: The Laws of the Internet, now in sixth edition, is the only UK judicially-acclaimed text on the subject. He is on the Editorial Board of Westlaw’s Computer & Telecommunications Law Review. Clive co-wrote the best-selling computer game, Elite, for the ARM-based computer, the Archimedes.

Clive has been called to give evidence to four UK Parliamentary Inquiries on spam, information security, AI and regulation of the Internet. He is a visiting Scholar at the University of Sheffield and has held appointments as a Visiting Professor at the University of Law, and as a Visiting Associate at Oxford University’s Internet Institute.

Publications

Gringras: The Laws of the Internet (all six editions)

Work Highlights

Relevant Experience:

- Microsoft on over $10bn of cloud transactions, including its $2.8bn deal with the London Stock Exchange Group.

- Numerous intellectual property actions for Microsoft including its copyright levy litigation throughout Europe and copyright and trade mark infringement cases against Amcor, Discount‑Licensing, ValueLicensing and Software Giants.

- Hundreds of cybercrime actions for major technology companies.

- A global social media company on its response to an investigation by the European Union’s Consumer Protection Cooperation Network.

- A major technology company on the Competitions and Markets Authority’s investigation into its consumer business.

- Microsoft on the Competition and Markets Authority’s investigation into its Xbox business.

- A major real estate investment firm on the Competition and Markets Authority’s investigation into the leasehold market.

- A global financial services company on its response to an investigation by the European Union’s Consumer Protection Cooperation Network.

- A number of online gaming companies on their disputes with the Competition and Markets Authority.

- Viagogo on its dispute with the Competition and Markets Authority.

- One of the top three cloud companies on its dispute with the Competition and Markets Authority.

- A major advertising network on its dispute with the Competition and Markets Authority.

- Skype on its front-page litigation with its founders and then acted for eBay on the UK aspects of its sale of a major stake in Skype to Silver Lake.

- eBay on defending it in UK High Court litigation brought by L’Oreal.