Mark Lewis

Practice Areas

Information Technology, AI and AI Compute, Cloud Computing, Cybersecurity and Resilience, Operational Resilience, IT Outsourcing, Business Process Outsourcing, Digitisation, and related Regulation

Career

Mark represents customer- and supply-side clients in all forms of information technology, business process and operations sourcing and outsourcing transactions.

He advises on the deployment of advanced technologies and related business models, including cloud computing, digitalisation, blockchain, artificial intelligence and robotic process automation. He also advises on cyber-related issues.

For close to 40 years, and recognised in the market as one of the UK’s leading practitioners, Mark has specialised in transactions for, and advice on, the acquisition and use of IT products, systems and services and business process services, including all forms of outsourcing and managed and shared services transactions. Many of them are mission- or business-critical for his clients.

Much of his IT and outsourcing work is in the financial services sector. His clients have included global, FTSE and challenger financial services firms and fintech providers in the banking, insurance and asset management industries.

In all the sectors he covers, Mark has represented a broad range of IT and business process service providers, from the largest globally to early-stage niche technology companies.

Since 2019, Mark has been a Visiting Professor in Practice in the Law School of the London School of Economics and Political Science, where he has lectured on cloud computing. artificial intelligence and machine learning, and cybersecurity and resilience.

Professional Memberships

Barrister (Unregistered), 1982, Hardwicke Scholar, Denning Society, of Lincoln’s Inn

Solicitor, England and Wales, 1991

Education