Nick Bent

Nick is a highly experienced commercial and corporate lawyer with over 25 years’ experience within private practice and in-house (including at Dewey Leboeuf, Practical Law and Lexis Nexis). Nick is a dual qualified lawyer in England & Wales and South Africa. Nick has significant international experience in South Africa, the UK, Europe, US and other jurisdictions, and holds an MBA degree in addition to his legal qualifications.

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Nick has a wide range of commercial and corporate experience and expertise, particularly within the fields of technology and media law, including: general commercial contract advice, drafting and review; cross-border transactions; mergers and acquisitions; supplier/customer agreements; master services agreements; licence agreements; SaaS; software development; partner (reseller / distributor) agreements; data protection (EU and UK GDPR); internet (website and app) terms and conditions; intellectual property rights; production agreements (film and television); social media advice and documents.

Recent work

• Contract reviews for a Fortune 500 US client, including customer contracts, SaaS/technology agreements, drafting templates, general commercial advice.
• M&A for a UK investment company, with transactions in South Africa, the UK and the Netherlands.
• Contract reviews for UK and US creative agencies, including customer contracts, supplier (software development and software supplier) agreements.
• Part-time in-house counsel for a software (data discovery) business, advising on all types of commercial and corporate matters, including drafting and reviewing customer contracts and various template standard documents.
• Drafting template talent (performer) agreements for a talent agency and advising on specific talent engagements.
• Reviewing supplier agreements, SaaS agreements, master services agreements, and drafting a data processing agreement, for an online logistics business.
• Drafting social media influencer agreements, terms and conditions for an NFT competition, website privacy policy, for a PR agency.
• Drafting production agreements, supplier contracts and other bespoke legal documents for a production company.