Sally Samadi
Partner
Sally has over a decade of experience advising clients on a broad spectrum of technology matters.
Partner
Sally has over a decade of experience advising clients on a broad spectrum of technology matters.
Language - English
Jurisdiction - England & Wales
Sally’s practice focuses on supporting clients across a range of sectors on their complex technology projects and transformations as well as use of emerging technologies. She has particular expertise in IT and business process outsourcings, long term services agreements, software licensing including cloud services agreements and digital transformation projects.
Sally also advises on use of emerging technologies and has supported clients with their AI programmes including developing AI implementation and deployment roadmaps and amending or developing AI specific contract terms.
Sally has notable experience advising clients in the financial services sector with balancing the need to deploy more innovative technology solutions against the requirement to do so in compliance with an increasingly complex set of regulatory requirements, notably in relation to operational resilience, EBA and PRA guidelines and AI usage. Sally also provides strategic contractual support for transitional arrangements in complex M&A and carve-out transactions.
Large international investment bank
Advising on the negotiation of the Asia Pacific local agreements as part of the Bank’s 10-year, multi-billion dollar outsourcing deal for data centre services to modernise the bank's global IT infrastructure. Advising on the consolidation and transformation of the bank’s cheque processing operations across multiple countries and moving to a cloud-based digital platform.
Global financial services company
Advising supplier-side on the provision of middle office investment services using BlackRock’s Aladdin platform.
Leading international cross-border bank
Advising on the outsourcing of its global voice infrastructure across more than 70 countries based on a Skype-for-Business deployment.
One of the largest global financial institutions
Providing strategic support and advice on the technology and Transitional Services Agreements (and related data management and processing arrangements) related to its purchase of a distressed financial institution.
Leading global technology company
Advising on the feasibility and implementation of various payment business models, including in-app and in-game payments, in over 40 jurisdictions globally including across Europe, Asia Pacific, Australia, and Canada.
Advising on software and content licences for video-on-demand and streaming content.
American multinational logistics company
Advising on the outsourcing of its Asia Pacific data centres and customer contact centres involving a cloud solution.
Large global bank
Providing ad hoc support on all privacy matters including supporting on development of comprehensive approach to data protection compliance as part of mergers and acquisitions activity and transitional support.
Major international airline
Advising on compliance with the EU GDPR, including a gap analysis between the required standards of the Singapore Personal Data Protection Act (PDPA) and the new European standards.
Multinational professional services firm
Advising on their global privacy impact assessment processes and the tools being deployed to ensure GDPR compliance.
US headquartered Investment management firm
Supporting on large scale contract remediation project to uplift supplier ICT agreements to reflect the requirements of the EU's Digital Operational Resilience Act ("DORA").
