JP Irvine Bio

JP Irvine is a tech-savvy corporate and commercial lawyer with a wide range of connections and interests. JP represents start-ups, scaling businesses, venture capital, co-founders, and platforms across all kinds of sectors and inventions. His clients are mainly located in London, Bermuda, Bristol, and Belfast. Over the past 20 years, JP has been Chief Legal Counsel to a Fin Tech open banking App, Company Secretary to 20 different companies, Non-Executive Board Director and Data Protection Officer (DPO) implementing GDPR solutions. Outside of law, he is a founder of tech forum Origin Circle, a Judge on the Ulster University Shark Tank, and is a patron of the global competition the Start Up World Cup. JP works across three core legal services: Corporate, Commercial Technology, and Data Protection and Privacy law. His corporate law work includes venture capital, fund raising, M&A, reorganisations, shareholder agreements and share option schemes. Within commercial and technology he advises on Saas, Paas, fin-tech, open banking, app development, API licensing, and mobile operator agreements, and his data protection specialisms include GDPR toolkits, privacy notices and data sharing agreements.