IP, technology & commercial

Meet the Intangibles…

Think of virtually any business and what makes it great.  Leave aside the physical for a moment.  It is the abstract know-how, systems, ideas and rights that generate both edge and wealth.

Now think of any intellectual property issue you’ll ever encounter and know that our team has already handled something like it.

Our IP, Technology & Commercial group is a one-stop solution with experts in each key aspect of intangible assets, enabling you to manage, exploit, defend, promote and extend them so as to maximise returns and minimise threats.

From brand, trademark and reputation management to business process outsourcing; from information management security to global distribution agreements; from copyright to confidentiality; from publishing media and e-commerce to EU regulatory compliance; from software licensing and distribution to staff and supplier agreements; from marketing and advertising to telecoms and social networking; from digital signatures to e-discovery; from competition law to gambling and gaming - you name it, we have done it.

We can identify exactly what it is you, or others, own, structure your agreements and corporate structures and defend you against attacks by third parties.

How do you register a design, trademark or patent, license your software, franchise a brand, or acquire a company with significant personal data as an asset or indeed protect your reputation against damage?  We provide practical commercial legal advice which makes the complex simple, applying judgment based on collective experience and depth of knowledge.

Welcome to the world of intangibles, the borderlands of competing interests and innovation where fortunes turn not just on who got there first but who understood, staked and defended their claim best. Our dynamic team has many years of practical business experience advising and counseling clients and dealing with regulators, advocating claims and defences before the courts and drafting thousands of agreements. Our expertise is anchored on a foundation of interlocked legal disciplines with intellectual property at its core. 

But don’t just take our word for it: our clients say we leave both larger legal conglomerates and the smaller specialists standing. Simply put, if you’re going to ‘bet the ranch’, we are the team to back.

While our growing client list contains some of the world’s leading and most ambitious businesses we welcome businesses and entrepreneurs who aim to work in partnership with their advisers to achieve the improbable and confound their competitors.