Clive Gringras

CLIVE GRINGRAS is an international disputes and transactional technology and AI lawyer working with Global 100 companies. Clive is trusted by these companies on high-stakes matters ranging from first of a kind litigation to billion-dollar technology-rich cross-border transactions to first-impression AI matters. He is particularly experienced representing very large tech companies in regulatory investigations and litigation. Sidley’s Co-Leader of its Global Technology Group, he is also a leading advisor for cybercrime, consumer protection defence matters and litigation.

Clive received Microsoft’s Law Firm Leader Award. With three decades of practicing experience, he is also a well-respected commentator. His book, Gringras: The Laws of the Internet, now in its seventh edition, is the only UK judicially acclaimed text on the subject. Clive co-wrote the bestselling computer game Elite for the ARM-based computer the Archimedes. Clive has been called to give evidence to four UK parliamentary inquiries on spam, information security, AI, and regulation of the internet. He is a Visiting Scholar at the University of Sheffield and has held appointments as a Visiting Professor at the University of Law and as a Visiting Associate at Oxford University’s Internet Institute.