To make your IP work as hard as possible for your business, you need the very best advice when you develop and exploit it – whether that involves partnering, acquisition or licensing. Our IP specialists ensure that you secure the rights you need to develop your business and extract maximum value out of the exploitation of your IP through licensing, partnering or disposal. We focus on your commercial priorities, while managing legal risks, to provide creative and cost-effective solutions. We advise on the full range of intellectual property, competition and tax issues that arise when business engage in third-party collaborations and licences, brand demergers and group IP holding structures. We also help realise the balance-sheet value of IP assets through disposals and the use and securitisation of IP portfolios.

With IP specialists in all of the key European jurisdictions, we advise clients from Europe, North America and Asia on their key European IP acquisitions, developments and licences. Combining our intellectual property, competition and tax expertise, we provide creative, cost-effective solutions to enable our clients to secure the IP rights they need and to exploit them effectively. We have particular experience of FRAND licensing issues which relate to standard essential patents.

Experience

Liquavista

Assisted on a range of IP collaboration agreements (with the likes of Samsung, Sharp, Texas Instruments and Plastic...

Witwood Food

Advised on a number of cross-licensing arrangements for food recipes and patented food technology processes.

ASLAN Pharmaceuticals

Advised on all their in-licences of drug compounds, collaboration agreements and subsequent out-licences.

First Utility

Advised on the expansion of this UK business in Germany utilising one of the world’s most famous brands under licence.

SynTech Bio-Energy

Advised on the complex negotiations on technology licensing and IP ownership issues for this US company entering the...

Brentronics

Assisted in negotiating a license agreement with Thales, in order to preserve the client’s IP rights. Thales had...

PDU Music & Productions SA

Assisted in the drafting and negotiation of a contract concerning the use of the voice, profile, signature and...

PDU Music & Productions SA

Assisted in the drafting and negotiation of contracts with Radiotelevisione Svizzera for the exploitation of a series of...

Stefano Fontana

Assisted Stefano Fontana, a famous Italian DJ, composer and performer of his own songs that create “sound identity” for...

OKI DOKI

Assisted in the negotiation of the agreement with an influencer (to act as the programme host) concerning the creation...

Opera Co-Pro

Cooperation with Opera Co-Pro, an English company dealing with the management of co-production projects and the...