Nigel Parker
Partner
London

Nigel Parker
Partner
London
Contact details
Nigel specialises in intellectual property, technology and data.
Expertise
Practices
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Qualifications
Professional
Academic
LLB, Law, The University of Manchester, 2001
LLM, Commercial Intellectual Property, Nottingham Law School, 2007
Experience highlights
Advising on its $8bn acquisition of Wolt
Advising a global healthcare company on its strategic collaboration with German biotech company CureVac for the research, development and commercialisation of mRNA-based vaccines and monoclonal antibodies targeting infectious diseases, including advice on its equity investment of EUR150 million into CureVac.
A multinational telecommunications company on its GBP31bn joint venture with Telefónica to merge Virgin Media and O2's fixed, broadband and mobile businesses in the UK.
A public petroleum and natural gas company on its strategic partnership with Aston Martin F1, including a long-term sponsorship and licensing agreement.
Related articles

Blog Post: 21 September 2023
Saudi Arabia Finalised PDPL Regulations published in Official Gazette
On 7 September 2023, the Saudi Data & Artificial Intelligence Authority (SDAIA) published the (i) Implementing Regulations of the Personal Data Protection Law (PDPL) and (ii) Regulation on Personal…
Blog Post: 14 September 2023
Blog Post: 18 August 2023
India – Digital Personal Data Protection Act receives Presidential assent

Expertise
Practices
Sectors
Qualifications
Professional
Academic
LLB, Law, The University of Manchester, 2001
LLM, Commercial Intellectual Property, Nottingham Law School, 2007
Published work
- "Infiltrate, Extort, Repeat - The Ransomware Pandemic" (Nigel Parker, Nathan Charnock, Daniel Rubin), ICLG 2022
- "Get Stuffed! Are you prepared for a credential-stuffing attack? (Nigel Parker and Nathan Charnock), ICLG 2021
- "Effective Cyber Diligence – The Importance of Getting it Right" (Nigel Parker and Alexandra Rendell), ICLG 2020
- "The Regulators Have Spoken – Nine Lessons To Help Protect Your Business" (Nigel Parker and Alexandra Rendell), ICLG 2019
- "Would the Standard of Cybersecurity be Improved by the Introduction of Mandatory Cybersecurity Controls?" (Nigel Parker and Alex Shandro), ICLG 2018
- "International Data Transfers under the proposed Data Protection Regulation", PDP Journals, May 2012
- "The secret recipe: key ingredients of agreements to protect confidential information" Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice, Practice Point, February 2011.
- "Cross-border data transfers: Weighing up regulator requests" PLC, January 2011.
- "Intellectual property and joint ventures: protection of intellectual property on exit", 4 Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice 473, 2009.
- "Post-termination use of licensed intellectual property by licensees", 3 Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice 5, 2008.
- "Data Protection Law in Japan: a European Perspective", 8 World Data Protection Report 12, 2008.
- "Intellectual property issues in joint ventures and collaborations", Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice, 2: 729-74, 2007.
Recognition
Combines outstanding technical knowledge with great commercial and common sense. He provides pragmatic and commercial advice and is always available when you need him.
Legal 500 UK 2021 (Data Protection, Privacy and Cybersecurity)
Nigel Parker was supportive and responsive, and the quality of work produced under pressure was excellent.
Legal 500 UK 2022 (Data Protection, Privacy and Cybersecurity)
He is very knowledgeable and he has a very big-picture and broad way of solving a problem. He is very good at thinking about the detail as well.
Chambers UK 2022 (Data Protection & Information Law)
He reassures us with his calm advice.
Chambers UK 2022 (Data Protection & Information Law)