Bill Thatcher

Service area(s): Bioscience, Intellectual Property, Commercial Agreements

Office: Cambridge

Position:Partner and Head of Commercial Team

Telephone:01223 532709

Email:billthatcher@hewitsons.com

Overview:

Bill Thatcher is a partner in the firm and heads the firm's commercial/technology practice. He is based in Cambridge.

Experience:

Bill represents clients across many industries as well as public sector organisations. He handles a wide range of commercial and contract work for national and international clients including Microsoft. This includes research and development arrangements; a broad range of technology licensing contracts; all sorts of contracts for supply of goods and/or services (from either perspective); manufacturing contracts; distribution/agency contracts; I&CT supply, licensing and support agreements; publishing contracts; all aspects of doing business online; data protection; and many other commercial arrangements.

Background:

Bill holds a degree from Cambridge University, where he read a combination of engineering and philosophy. He was commissioned into and served in the Royal Engineers and arrived by a circuitous route as a trainee solicitor at Hewitsons where he has been practising commercial law since 1990.