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Sustainable Horizons: The Saudi Arabian Vision
We are excited to share the latest edition of the Law Update, beautifully and appropriately titled “Sustainable Horizons: The Saudi Arabian Vision.” Giving special honor to the Kingdom’s 2030 vision, this update focuses on a collection of both informative and inspiring articles.
For those in construction, you can learn about how the tendering environment impacts risk-pricing for contractors, the updates on the legal framework of the construction industry and how contractors can protect themselves against financial difficulties.
There is good news too from the kingdom’s banking sector, from which the practice of “Open Banking” is being pushed for! But what is open banking? We’re answering that too.
Also . . . Are there any women trail blazers in Saudi Arabia you can name? We’ll help you with that. We cover how the Middle East has been making strides in empowering women in the entrepreneurial space,most notably in STEM fields.
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Simon Stokes
Senior Counsel
Biography
Simon is a Senior Counsel in the Digital & Data practice based in Riyadh. He has experience in outsourcing, software and cloud procurement, data privacy, FinTech, eCommerce, IP and technology law as well as telecommunications, media law, commercial law, competition law and procurement. Simon also advises clients in the art market on commercial. IP and technology-related matters.
Simon also has in-house experience with a global e-commerce technology provider. Before joining Al Tamimi he was a partner in a major UK law firm and prior to that was a Senior Associate with a Magic Circle law firm in London.
He has written and published widely in technology and IP law and is also a visiting lecturer at the University of London. He is the author of several established legal texts including Digital Copyright Law and Practice (Bloomsbury/Hart Publishing fifth edition 2019) and Art & Copyright (Bloomsbury/Hart Publishing third edition 2021).
Simon has a background in science and technology and was a research assistant at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) before training as a lawyer.
Simon was recently ranked in Who’s Who Legal for ‘Thought Leaders – Data 2021’ for IT and Data Privacy and Protection.
Recent Experience
- Acting for a global financial services business on financial data procurement and business process outsourcing
- Acting for a global eCommerce business on eCommerce and data privacy advice
- Advising a financial technology supplier on a cryptoasset registry project
- Advising a leading supplier of smartcard payment software on technology licensing
- Procurement advice on a number of cloud technology projects
- International data transfers and data privacy
- Open source and software IP policies
- IP protection of banking technology
- Advising on a telematics project
- Competition law advice in the technology sector
- Advising on an art-related non-fungible token (NFT) platform
Language(s)
- English
Education
1986 – BA, Oxford University
1988 – MSc, MIT
1992 – Diploma in EC Law, King’s College London
1997 – LLM, University of Wales
Admission
1992 – Solicitor, England & Wales
Practice(s)
Sector(s)
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