Michael Butterworth | Fieldfisher
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Professional background

Professional background

I specialise in solving legal challenges relating to new technology, including IT and business process outsourcings, cloud services agreements, technology and software procurement, managed exits and renegotiations of distressed IT projects, telecoms regulatory advice, e-commerce and privacy. Clients range from pioneering tech start-ups to established corporate technology buyers and global IT suppliers.
 
My experience has involved me working in the technology, telecommunications, retail, financial services, and logistics sectors. My professional highlights include advising on shared service centre deals and 'track and trace' and supply chain traceability projects (long before they were front page news).
 
I have also spent time on secondment at a major international bank and hold a Practitioner’s Certificate in Data Protection from BCS, the Chartered Institute of IT. I am a member of the Professional Board of the leading IT law journal, Computer Law & Security Review.

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Cyber Security
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NIS2 across the EU

05.05.2026
The EU's NIS2 Directive is a significant development in cyber security, bringing many more sectors into the scope of cyber security regulation and setting out incident notification obligations for in-scope entities, risk management requirements and significant enforcement measures.
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Technology and Data
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The next link in Supply Chain regulation: EU Commission proposals on digital sovereignty and high risk vendors

02.04.2026
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Press Release

Fieldfisher advises Joblogic on £60 million investment from Axiom Equity

21.03.2023
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Insight

How to implement effective data processing agreements

20.09.2022
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