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Graham Hann

Graham Hann

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Legal 500 UK 2026

Leading partner in the IT and telecoms and media: video games categories.

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Graham heads the UK team advising clients on their commercial, IT and data issues. He's one of the UK's leading lawyers working at the intersection of media and technology. Graham also leads our UK Games and eGaming group, and has built a significant practice advising many of the most ambitious companies in the sector.

Graham's career is built around a deep understanding of, and interest in technology. Before becoming a lawyer, he earned a degree in computer science and started his career as a computer programmer for Siemens. After changing to law, Graham worked in-house during the dotcom boom, leading the legal team for AOL-backed internet startup Mviva. Graham advises digital business from early-stage ventures through to global brands. He's particularly experienced in working with clients from the fintech, payments, ecommerce, healthtech, digital publishing, edtech, and fashion technology sectors. Graham can guide you through transformational projects around IT and data, ecommerce and the 'store of the future', content and digital publishing, supply chains, consumer campaigns & marketing, and connected vehicles.

Graham regularly advises international technology businesses on how to set up or invest in Europe, with a particular focus on working with companies from the US and Far East.

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Public services & education
Technology, media & communications
Consumer & retail
Financial institutions & insurance
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Fintech
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Fashion & luxury
Games and gambling
Cryptoassets, blockchain and distributed ledger technology
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Digital, data and consumer regulation

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CV

Since 2001 Partner, Taylor Wessing
1999 - 2000 Head of Legal, Mviva Ltd
1995 - 1999 Senior Associate, Allen & Overy, Computer Programmer, Siemens
1992 Bsc Computer Science, University of York

Career

Since 2001 Partner, Taylor Wessing
1999 - 2000 Head of Legal, Mviva Ltd
1995 - 1999 Senior Associate, Allen & Overy, Computer Programmer, Siemens

Education

1992 Bsc Computer Science, University of York

Publications

Apple in news app blogger row, BBC
2015
An eye on the future, eGaming Review
2015
Lookahead, the future is here, BBC
2015
Is Apple Pay mobile wallet secure?, Daily Telegraph
2014
Sweet & Maxwell's Practical Commercial Precedents, Data Protection section

Awards

Legal 500 UK 2026

Featured

Leading partner in the IT and telecoms and media: video games categories.

Legal 500 UK 2024

IT and telecoms - Leading individual

Legal 500 UK 2024

Fintech – "Graham Hann is a go-to lawyer for transformational projects concerning IT and data".

Legal 500 UK 2022

Media and entertainment

Gaming and betting

Data protection, privacy and cybersecurity

Retail and consumer

IT and telecoms (Leading individual)

IP - trademarks, copyright and design

Leading individual - TMT (technology, media and telecoms): IT and telecoms

Named as one of the top 100 lawyers in the UK

Experience

Farfetch on a ground-breaking white label contract for fashion retailer Harrods

Farfetch on their contract to develop and operate Harrods' global e-commerce operations. This is a white label service provided through Farfetch's proprietary 'Black and White' platform and logistics and e-retail management resources. This deal may pave the way for further white label arrangements for Farfetch.

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Kelly Burke

Goodgame Studios sale to Stillfront

Altigi GmbH, holding company of the Hamburg-based game developer Goodgame Studios on its acquisition by the Swedish gaming company Stillfront Group for EUR270 million.

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Continuing to advise long-standing client, Farfetch

Farfetch, the online community of the world’s best fashion boutiques and global brands, on a range of matters. These include on their commercial partnership agreements with retailers such as Harrods, on all of its corporate financing rounds ahead of its USD8bn IPO on the New York Stock Exchange, including it's USD397 million Series G fundraising by new investor, and ecommerce giant, JD.com.

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Kelly Burke

Creation of a global data protection compliance programme

Just Eat on on its global data protection law compliance project, including multiple challenging jurisdictions such as French data protection law.

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