As a senior commercial lawyer with significant secondment experience, Aneeqa leads on a broad range of IT/IP matters across several sectors, including financial services, insurance, health, transport, and retail.

Relevant experience includes:

• Managing a large portfolio of instructions from a leading building society on a variety of projects, including supporting on the negotiation of framework contracts for IT services with Tier 1 suppliers, as well as the provision of commercial and legal advice on several important consultancy, collaboration, and referral agreements
• Completing an eight-month secondment to a national information and technology partner to the health and social care system in the UK, where Aneeqa provided legal review for its weekly approvals panel, advising on contractual arrangements for key strategic programmes. She also advised on several diverse matters including drafting advice on open-source software licences, preparing provision of service agreements, negotiating agreements with research and industry partners and drafting analyses of applicable statutory obligations and relationships with other public bodies.
• Receiving extensive instructions from a Russell Group university, including advice over eighteen months on its acquisition of a specialist IT partner for the customisation, integration, and execution of a fully integrated student records system. Her matters have also included the negotiation of a valuable collaboration agreement with Siemens and the delivery of bespoke training on software licensing to the in-house research and innovations team.
• Acting for a transport authority on several aspects of its smart ticketing programme, particularly negotiating and drafting four complex agreements covering technology for the acceptance of concessionary fares, contactless payment, and revenue inspection devices
• Advising a supplier of software for office space optimisation in relation to several high-profile deals, including assisting with the negotiation of a complicated source code licence and collaboration agreement with a partner in the Netherlands