Daniel Lloyd is a commercial Telecoms and IP lawyer with an Advisory and Transactional practice. In his advisory practice he specialises in IP, digital regulation, telecoms and consumer law. He has advised numerous digital platforms, technology companies and telcos including for example TikTok, Vodafone and BT, and many other mid-sized technology companies, on how best to comply with the rapidly evolving legal regimes internationally as they apply to digital and AI. He is recognised as a leading expert in the law on digital content and how it is regulated.
In his transactional practice Daniel leads on large scale and complex technology and network services agreements. Most notably he recently led the negotiations for the Government in procuring the largest ever instance of an ERP platform, to be provided on a SaaS basis by Oracle over a platform built by IBM, for use by more then 250,000 civil servants across four central Government Departments, in a ten year contract worth £900m. He led the negotiations with IBM and Oracle on behalf of HMG and subsequently with the Business Process providers (BPS) who will be providing services over the platform.
Daniel has much experience in negotiating and advising on a wide range of technology contacts in both a seller and buyer capacity and has worked for some of the leading companies in the UK including Vodafone, EE, SAP and Comscope and regularly advises on contracts relating to CPE manufacture, Network Builds (DBO contracts), IT services, Agile software development, SaaS, IaaS and PaaS, CDNs, and on agreements for the provision of different type of digital context over these platforms.
Daniel is the co-author of the Blackstone guide tn the Consumer Rights Act 2015 (OUP) in which he wrote the chapters on Digital Content, Unfair Contract Terms and Services. He was formerly the Head of Consumer Law during which time BT launched BT Mobile, Fibre Broadband, BT Sport and BT TV together with countless other products and services.
Daniel was formerly the chair of the CBI Consumer Affairs Panel and is today the Chair of the Business Consumer Co-ordination Group. He set up the ISP association for in house lawyers to lobby on digital content regulation. Daniel is also a member of the European Law Committee of the Bar Council. He is regularly consulted by Government on upcoming changes to consumer law and digital regulation more generally.
