Christopher Perrin

Client Testimonials

“Chris has worked closely with our Broadcasting team though a number of major industry initiatives and has always been amenable, helpful and resourceful – not to mention professional, knowledgeable and skilled. He can adapt to whatever the situation demands and will always deliver results.”

“I felt that communication was at all times clear and efficient. Working with Chris Perrin and Caroline Sheldon was excellent.”

“I worked closely with Chris on a number of high-profile technology deals while he was at ITV. He is knowledgeable, a tough negotiator and manages relationships very well. In addition, Chris was responsible for a real improvement in his team’s engagement with both Procurement and Technology within ITV. He is a class act.”

“We needed work done at speed and the team responded as we required.”

Recent Work

• Acting as primary legal advisor for one of the world’s largest fast-moving consumer goods companies on many of its high value, global contracts, including drafting and negotiating strategic SaaS, PaaS, software development, marketing and other outsourcing agreements.
• Advising The Business Banking Resolution Service, an entity funded by the seven major UK banks, to create and facilitate a dispute resolution service for disputes between banks and small to medium sized enterprises. This was a high-profile scheme, with parliamentary oversight, subject to much public scrutiny. Chris was a key part of a large multidisciplinary team and led both the commercial and procurement legal workstreams.
• Acting for various SaaS suppliers in relation to their customer agreements and data protection issues, including: (i) an FCA regulated platform in the ECM / trading market; (ii) a well-known payment collections platform; (iii) a global platform used by businesses to produce their marketing materials; and (iv) a specialist provider of automated payment validation solutions that enables its clients to lower the cost of payment processing, by improving straight through processing rates.
• Advising The Association of International Certified Professional Accountants on a first generation high-value IT outsourcing project, provided to US and UK based users from offshore service centres.
• Acting for The Irish Government’s Department of Education, in relation to two high-value and high-profile public procurement exercises: (i) to procure a new payroll system for use by approximately 3,700 schools / 150,000 staff / payees in Ireland; and (ii) to procure a new finance shared services solution for use by the Education and Training Boards in Ireland.
• Advising a US based company on a $60m+ / two-year agreement in relation to blockchain validator services.
• Advising various well-known data centres, which provide services to companies such as Microsoft, Google and AWS, in relation to a range of commercial contracts which underpin their day-to-day operations.
• Providing fractional General Counsel services to a broad range of SMEs, on a flexible retainer basis, enabling those businesses to grow with the peace of mind that measures have been put in place to help them stop falling foul of any legal issues which may make any future funding rounds or sale of the business more challenging.

Publications & Press Higlights

• Limitation of liability clauses: what corporate counsel need to know to minimise risk – Quoted in Lexology, January 2026
• Christopher Perrin featured on BBC News discussing AI & copyright challenges raised by OpenAI’s Sora , October 2025
• These Are UK Tech SMEs’ Wish-List For The Autumn Budget, TechRound, September 2025
• Christopher Perrin interviewed by TechRound, January 2025