We always value the opportunity created by the INTA Annual Meeting to reconnect with our international lawyer contacts and our clients. It provides an ideal moment for us to catch up in person, strengthen longstanding relationships and exchange insights on developments shaping the global intellectual property landscape. These conversations allow us to share perspectives, deepen our understanding of clients’ priorities and explore how we can continue to support them effectively across jurisdictions, while reinforcing the close, collaborative relationships that underpin our international work.
That international perspective sits at the heart of how we support clients on multijurisdictional IP matters.
Working with international legal partners
We work with legal partners in other jurisdictions who engage us for our expertise in the UK legal market and our full‑service offering:
- Our independence is our strength – without international offices or formal networks, we collaborate flexibly with firms across the globe.
- Strong, like‑minded relationships – we enjoy working with high‑quality overseas firms, connecting clients with trusted independent advisers who share our commitment to excellent service and a commercially-focused approach.
- Seamless cross‑border delivery – we act on cross‑border matters through direct instructions and as part of multijurisdictional teams in parallel proceedings for international clients.
We provide a dependable and well‑established base for your clients in the UK.
Helping clients secure a competitive edge
We quickly grasp complex, technical issues to provide smart solutions, maximise commercial advantage and resolve conflict. We are also adept at protecting and enforcing brands, designs, inventions and confidential information.
Through close collaboration with our overseas legal partners, we excel at managing multijurisdictional matters and helping clients navigate international IP law wherever their businesses operate.
We build strong client relationships to ensure IP strategies always align with their long-term goals.
How we help our clients:
- IP disputes – bringing and defending claims for patent, trade mark, copyright and design right infringement.
- IP licensing and transactions – drafting, evaluating and negotiating IP and knowhow licensing agreements.
- Trade marks, brand protection and designs – crafting effective brand protection strategies, including applying for and opposing trade marks around the world.
- Trade secrets and confidential information – managing reputation, protecting trade secrets and resolving employee competition disputes.
- Data breach and cyber-fraud advice.
- IP audits, transactions, due diligence and valuation.
Supporting clients across key sectors
We combine technical expertise and commercial understanding to support clients across a range of sectors, including:
- Life sciences – managing risk and realising opportunities, including establishing licensing and other agreements, closing technology transactions and navigating complex litigation. Our experience includes IP considerations for new medical technologies and innovations; licensing of IP and technologies as well as clinical trials work relating to cutting-edge medicine; and trade secrets, patents and brand protection, including protecting valuable and confidential knowhow which isn’t patentable.
- Technology – safeguarding innovation, ensuring compliance and structuring transactions to drive growth. We advise on the implication of new laws in the technology space and support clients in protecting and enforcing their IP through robust strategies and risk management.
- Fashion and luxury – supporting innovation and growth through brand protection and reputation management, providing guidance on trade mark clearance and registration, and structuring collaboration agreements, sponsorships and brand influencer partnerships.
- Media and entertainment – helping achieve success at every stage of the content lifecycle – from supporting the commercialisation of media rights to resolving disputes, and protecting and maximising the exploitation of creative assets. Our expertise includes licensing and collaborations; film, TV, publishing and gaming agreements; influencer, sponsorship and agency arrangements; IP infringement and ownership disputes; and trade marks.
- Sport – strategic support to address diverse and interconnected issues as the industry evolves. We manage IP and reputational risk in a global market, including the protection and exploitation of image rights for athletes, and the structuring of high-profile sponsorship, player representation and endorsement deals that align with clients’ brand values.
Staying connected internationally
The INTA Annual Meeting brings together contacts from across our global network to discuss future collaboration and shared priorities.
These meaningful discussions support a practical, forward‑looking approach to cross‑border IP matters and help us to collectively align on the evolving needs of clients worldwide. We look forward to working together and making things happen for our clients internationally.
