Joshua Gray

Special Counsel at Covington & Burling

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Joshua Gray is a technology and data-focused lawyer with a distinctly international practice combining commercial and regulatory expertise. Joshua excels in assisting clients for deals with no precedent where technology and data are at the heart of the project.

Joshua’s practice includes structuring and negotiating bespoke technology projects, privacy and GDPR, innovative collaborations involving the use of new (and often data-driven) technologies, and other business critical commercial transactions. Joshua provides “product counselling” to clients looking to launch new digital products and services and he routinely support multi-jurisdictional projects covering areas such as e-commerce, consumer law, media licensing and telecoms.

Joshua otherwise advises on the full spectrum of technology transactions, including IT services agreements, outsourcing, software development and licensing, cloud computing and infrastructure, M&A and joint ventures.

Joshua has deep industry knowledge and experience in the technology, life sciences, digital health, media, telecoms and travel sectors. This experience has been bolstered through client secondments to Illumina Inc, Barclays Bank and du, a leading telecoms operator in the UAE.