Catherine Bingham

Catherine Bingham is a Consultant at Dentons in London. Her practice focuses on Technology Law, having specialised in advising on major technology, infrastructure and outsourcing projects for over 25 years.

She co-leads the firm's UK government practice. Typically Catherine's role includes advising on strategy, leading on drafting and negotiating the project contracts, and advising on the procurement, tendering and evaluation processes.

Her UK government clients have included the UK Ministry of Defence (multi-£bn projects for ICT infrastructure and for ships and submarines and naval base support), the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy, the UK Space Agency, HM Treasury, the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, the Northern Ireland Civil Service and the Department for Transport. On the private sector side, she has acted for technology suppliers and for customers in a wide range of industry sectors, including energy, transport and infrastructure, financial services and retail.

Catherine is also an intellectual property specialist with over 30 years' experience advising on IP, IT, data, information and security issues for public and private sector clients. She has negotiated a wide range of commercial agreements for technology, retail, energy, transport and infrastructure, healthcare and media clients, including research and development agreements, franchise agreements, licences, distribution and supply agreements and joint venture agreements. She also advises on issues arising in relation to the exploitation of intellectual property rights covering patent, know-how, trade marks, design and copyright and data protection.

She is consistently rated as a leader in the technology and outsourcing fields, described as an "excellent IT lawyer" and "a calm and pragmatic operator" who wins plaudits for "delivering professional advice and responding to challenges and deadlines". She studied Modern History at Oxford University and completed her legal education at The College of Law.