Chris Kemp

Chris is an experienced IT lawyer who “stands out for his involvement in AI projects” (Legal 500 2023).
Best Lawyers “Ones to Watch” 2023 for IT Law in the UK
“Very strong” (Legal 500 2023)
“A key member of the team” (Legal 500 2024)
Chris joined Kemp IT Law in 2019 from Clifford Chance and became a Partner in October 2022. Chris graduated from the University of Oxford with a first class honours in English. After Oxford he spent two years teaching on the Teach First programme. He followed this with distinctions in the GDL and LPC.
Chris regularly writes and speaks on Tech Law topics. He has been published on LexisNexis, Politico, Practical Law, Computers and Law, and IT Law Today. He is an IAPP certified Information Privacy Professional (CIPP/E, CIPM).
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SaaS Insights – Exit and Transition
How hard is it to leave once you’ve onboarded a SaaS system? Chris Kemp takes a look in the latest …
Seeing the CMA’s Cloud Market Investigation in Context
The Competition and Markets Authority, the UK’s competition watchdog, has launched an in-depth investigation into the market for public cloud …
SaaS Insights: Approaching the infosec clause
The information security clause generally gets a lot of scrutiny – Chris Kemp in the latest of his SaaS Insights …