Alex Hamilton is a partner in the London office of Latham & Watkins. His practice focuses on outsourcing and technology transactions, including business process, information technology and assisted transformation outsourcing, off-shoring and systems and software procurement and integration. He also has extensive experience advising on on-line banking, applications development, IT security, web hosting, electronic commerce, intellectual property, data protection, media law and digital signatures.
Mr. Hamilton provides legal and commercial advice to financial institutions and companies in the pharmaceutical, insurance, oil and gas, media, entertainment and retail industries. Recent transactions have included:
- acting for a retail bank on an outsourcing transaction to acquire one of the largest implementations of an IP-enabled voice and data network;
- acting for an investment bank outsourcing its global distributed computing environment;
- advising a pharmaceutical in its global IT outsourcing;
- acting for the vendor in negotiating a business process outsourcing agreement in Venezuela;
- and advising on the setting up of an on-line financial trading system.
Mr. Hamilton is mentioned as a leading lawyer for information technology and outsourcing in the 2009 edition of Chambers UK, with the directory describing him as "one of the firm's rising stars" who "continues to climb the rankings."
He also speaks regularly at conferences on outsourcing and IT security.