Craig Armstrong

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craig.armstrong@shoosmiths.co.uk

Practice Areas

Craig is a partner within Shoosmiths’ technology, digital and telecoms team and advises on a wide range of IT and sourcing matters across a wide range of industry sectors with a particular focus on the IT, telecoms, financial services and retail sectors.

Craig's diverse experience includes negotiating IT system integration agreements, infrastructure and desktop outsourcings, ERP and CRM system procurements, complex IT-centric and business process outsourcings (both onshore and offshore), negotiating software implementation, licensing and support agreements, advising on intellectual property issues within the technology, healthcare and biotechnology sector and advising on contractual arrangements relating to e-commerce trading platforms and co-branded financial services on behalf of financial institutions and retail partners.

Craig also has niche expertise within financial services and regularly advises on merchant acquiring, co- branded and affinity products, customer account value added services and other commercial contracts within the retail financial services sector.

Craig is a member of Lexis Nexis’ consulting Editorial Board for TMT, working alongside other leading industry experts in this field. Craig is also the author of Lexis Nexis’ System Integration precedents and is a panel member of LexisPSL’s Q&A service, providing expert advice on topical legal questions raised by LexisPSL’s clients.