Tim Roughton is an associate in the London office of Morrison & Foerster and is a member of the Technology Transactions Group and the Global Sourcing Group.

Mr. Roughton advises on a wide range of non-contentious technology matters including outsourcing transactions, information technology (IT) procurement, software licensing and development and e-commerce. The primary focus of his practice is technology and business processing outsourcing. He has acted for both suppliers and customers in a number of high-profile outsourcing transactions. These include advising the Pearl Group in a business process outsourcing with the UK subsidiary of TATA Consultancy Services; advising UKvisas on a global outsourcing of its visa application process; advising a service provider in an outsourcing transaction for a large UK government agency; and other transactions on behalf of financial services institutions, national retail companies and public sector organisations.

Mr. Roughton has drafted and negotiated various IT services agreements, hardware and software development agreements, software licences and maintenance and support agreements. He has also advised small and medium sized enterprises on internet start-up and data protection issues.

Mr. Roughton received a Masters in Engineering, Economics and Management from the University of Oxford in 1995 and graduated from the College of Law, Chester with a CPE in 1996 and an LPC in 1997. He qualified as a solicitor in 1999.