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Rachel Crick

Principal Associate

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What can I do for you

Rachel is an experienced commercial and technology lawyer who works with public and private sector organisations across a range of sectors, including technology, higher education, charities and healthcare. She advises on a broad range of commercial arrangements, with particular expertise in technology, data protection, IP licensing and assignment, outsourcing and complex services arrangements.

Matters Rachel can support you with include:

  • Software, SaaS, cloud and AI licensing, development and reseller agreements

  • Online contracting, including website terms and privacy policies

  • IT infrastructure and hosting arrangements

  • Major IT procurements and outsourcing arrangements

  • UK GDPR compliance

  • Data processing and data sharing agreements

  • International data transfers

Rachel is also experienced in leading complex projects involving multiple stakeholders and legal disciplines.

Supporting your ambitions

Rachel combines technical expertise with a pragmatic and commercial approach. Having previously worked in-house, she understands the importance of legal advice that works in practice and is particularly focused on understanding a client's business, objectives and risk appetite.

She is particularly skilled at:

  • Providing pragmatic solutions when faced with complex issues, including navigating complex commercial and technology arrangements and translating them into clear, workable contracts

  • Drafting bespoke agreements which protect a client's interests while achieving an appropriate commercial balance

  • Managing complex matters involving multiple stakeholders and legal specialisms

  • Delivering advice which supports clients’ immediate needs while keeping their longer-term objectives firmly in view

What do others say

“Rachel is a delight to work with. She has an excellent grasp of our business, enabling her to deliver what we need, when we need it, with positivity and approachability. She is a valuable asset to our (extended) team!”

-Legal Counsel at a leading engineering and technology professional body and charitable institution

What our clients say about us

  • I think Mills & Reeve are a wonderful firm. The support they have provided to us in a really difficult area has been brilliant, collaborative and commercially minded. The team were absolutely wonderful and a joy to work with. Amazing advice and support and a real collaborative effort with us. I can't thank them enough for getting us through some really tough times and doing so with an amazing can-do attitude.
  • They are friendly, fast, always available and always on top of the game. I tend to judge my legal team against the other side's legal team and never doubt Mills & Reeve is the better of the two.
  • All interactions have been very clear. Responses to questions have always been very swift and unambiguous. Our company, and my family, have used various services in Mills & Reeve with the same level of satisfaction.
  • I value the fact that Mills & Reeve are recognised as a good place to work in the UK Best Companies survey. This aligns with the values of our business and means that Mills & Reeve can share what is required to achieve this status with our business.

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