Justin is a Senior Associate in the Technology team and advises on a wide range of commercial technology, data protection, intellectual property and cyber security matters.
Justin’s expertise covers complex B2B2C cloud-based technology platforms that increasingly make use of AI technologies across a range of (both regulated and non-regulated) sectors.
Justin has a strong interest in the space, satellite and cyber sector. He was the only UK candidate selected from the European Space Agency’s ECSL course in Space Law and Policy (Class of 2013). He has been the legal adviser for the Satellite Applications Catapult’s South-West Centre of Excellence SpaceTech Incubation Programme, backed by the UK Space Agency, and was also part of the team that helped advise Spaceport Cornwall and Cornwall Council on the regulatory and legal requirements for building, licensing and operating the UK’s first horizontal spaceport.
Prior to his career in law, Justin led and worked for both large and early stage venture backed, technology companies. He has a wealth of international, commercial and entrepreneurial experience across a range of sectors and brings a pragmatic, commercially astute approach to the advice he provides clients.
Justin has an LL.M in data protection from the University of Law, an MA in Chinese from the University of Edinburgh and a decade of experience negotiating in spoken and read Mandarin Chinese. In the 2024 edition of Legal 500 he was recognised as a Recommended Lawyer in IT and Telecoms, and he is also a member of the Society for Computers and Law (SCL).