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Dominic AdairPartner – Patent litigation

An in-depth scientific education and love of technology underpin Dominic’s focus as a patent litigation specialist. For over 20 years he has worked at the forefront of Bristows’ practice in this area, winning recognition from all the major directories.

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Tim AllenPartner - Real estate

Tim is the head of Bristows’ real estate practice. He specialises in providing strategic, commercial real estate advice that is tailored to client requirements. Tim has a broad range of transactional commercial real estate experience but specialises in corporate occupier and development work in the build to rent sector.

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Oliver AlsopAssociate – Corporate & financing

Oliver has advised a full spectrum of UK and international clients on a range of cross-border and domestic corporate and commercial transactions.

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Gregory BaconPartner - Patent litigation

Greg is an experienced IP lawyer with a particular focus on patent litigation in the life sciences sector, handling cases both in the UK and across multiple jurisdictions.

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Cassie BlackburnAssociate – Patent litigation

Cassie is a patent litigation specialist, working on matters in both the technology and life sciences sectors. She has a diverse range of UK litigation experience, spanning from acting in SEP / FRAND litigation on behalf of a multinational electronics company, to defending a client in a patent litigation dispute concerning omega-3 microbial oils.

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Jeremy BlumPartner - Brands, designs & copyright

Jeremy is a leading IP specialist and has advised on many high profile contentious cases involving trade marks, copyright, designs, and confidential information. He has a wealth of IP litigation experience gained during his more than 20 year career. He is dual qualified so acts before the UK courts and also EU institutions such as the EUIPO, General Court and CJEU.

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James BoonPartner – Patent litigation

James specialises in patent litigation with a particular focus on high tech disputes. He has more than 20 years of experience litigating standard essential patents and dealing with issues relating to FRAND.

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Xisca BorrásPartner - Life sciences regulatory

Xisca is a dual-qualified lawyer in England & Wales and Spain who specialises in all aspects of EU and UK regulatory law in the biopharmaceutical and medical technologies sectors.

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Andrew BowlerPartner - Patent litigation

Andy Bowler is an IP litigator with 25 years’ experience. He is joint head of patent litigation. Andy acts for a range of leading companies across different sectors. In addition to UK litigation (including in the Supreme Court) and related advisory work, he is commonly called upon to coordinate patent litigation round the world.

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Sean-Paul BrankinOf Counsel – Competition and Antitrust

Sean-Paul has over 25 years of experience as a competition law advisor and enforcer. His practice covers complex advisory work, merger control and competition litigation. Clients say he provides “very practical, commercial advice ” and is “very punctual and precise”.

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Francion BrooksSenior Associate – Competition

Francion has broad competition law experience including competition litigation, merger control (UK and multi-jurisdictional) and anti-trust investigations. She also advises companies on market dominance, and commercial arrangements such as distribution, R&D and licensing.

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Mark BrownPartner – Commercial & technology disputes

Mark is a partner in Bristows’ Commercial & Technology Disputes team. He handles complex contract and tort disputes at all levels of the English courts and in ad hoc and institutional arbitrations. He also coordinates parallel proceedings in overseas jurisdictions.

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Robert BurrowsPartner – Patent litigation

Rob is joint head of patent litigation. He has a PhD in molecular genetics and over 20 years’ experience acting for a broad range of companies in the life sciences sector.

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Luca CericolaAssociate - Commercial & IP transactions

Luca is an associate in the Commercial & IP transactions team. He advises clients on a range of non-contentious IP matters, with a particular focus on transactions in the life sciences sector that involve the development, exploitation and transfer of IP rights.

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Adrian ChewOf Counsel – Patent litigation

Adrian has over a decade of experience assisting multi-national pharmaceutical clients with patent disputes in the biotechnology and pharmaceutical sectors.

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Simon ClarkPartner - Brands, designs & copyright disputes

Simon specialises in copyright and design rights, database rights, trade marks, passing off, domain names and breach of confidence.

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Liz CohenPartner - Patent litigation

Liz is a highly experienced and well-regarded IP specialist with a focus on counselling clients in the life sciences sector on national and international patent strategy and litigation.

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Ben ColemanSenior Associate

Ben is a senior associate specialising in commercial dispute resolution. He advises businesses across a range of sectors in connection with disputes and litigation with contractual counterparties and other third parties, particularly in technology and related industries.

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Anna CookPartner – Commercial & technology disputes

Anna Cook is the head of the Commercial Disputes team. She specialises in software, telecoms and technology disputes, such as disputes involving contracts for software and systems, outsourcing, software infringements, product licensing, confidentiality and the marketing and distribution of products and services.

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Brian CorderyPartner – Patent Litigation

Brian specialises in intellectual property dispute resolution with a focus on patent litigation in the life sciences sector. He has handled disputes relating to patents for small molecules, biological medicines, non-biological complex drugs and medical devices. Brian has a long-standing interest in SPCs and encouraging the research and development of additional uses for known medicines.

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Adam CoughlinSenior Associate - Commercial & IP transactions

Adam specialises in commercial and intellectual property transactions, most notably in the life sciences sector.

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Jamie CoxAssociate – Commercial & IP transactions

Jamie assists a portfolio of technology, media and telecoms clients with a variety of commercial, IT and data protection matters, including commercial technology procurement and outsourcing deals.

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Toby CrickPartner – IT & digital

Toby advises on and negotiates commercial, technology and outsourcing agreements. He has particular expertise in working with clients to help them manage and structure complex deals and is recognised for his work on digital transformation, software and telecoms projects.

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Julian DarrallPartner – Media disputes

Julian has been defending national and global publishers for over 20 years - including acting for newspapers, broadcasters, entertainment platforms and media insurers.

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Marc DautlichPartner – Data protection, privacy & cyber

Marc is a technology specialist with 30 years’ experience in private practice and in-house at Equifax and Microsoft. He advises clients in the technology, life sciences and financial services sectors on data protection & privacy, cyber risk and digital regulation.

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Matt DennisPartner - Corporate & financing

Matt has over 30 years’ experience in advising on all aspects of corporate law in particular domestic and international M&A, equity financings and venture capital, joint ventures, IPO’s and other securities issues.

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Alex DenoonPartner - Life sciences regulatory

Alex is passionate about the life sciences sector and advises about regulatory issues all day every day.

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Chloe DicksonSenior Associate – Patent litigation

Chloe has acted in IP disputes before the English courts, including the Intellectual Property Enterprise Court. She also works on the coordination of international patent disputes and has experience in the enforcement of Plant Variety Rights.

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Jamie DruckerOf Counsel - Data protection & privacy

Jamie is a data protection and privacy expert, with a particular focus on regulatory investigations and data breach response work. He also has significant experience of adtech and AI related matters.

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Sally DunstanOf Counsel – Brands, designs & copyright

Sally has broad experience in advising on a wide range of brand related matters. She has particular expertise in relation to UK and international trade mark prosecution and strategy, registry disputes, and brand protection and commercialisation.

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Lizzie FieldOf Counsel

Lizzie is of counsel in the employment team at Bristows. She specialises in employment and immigration law with a particular expertise in international HR matters.

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Naomi FoaleAssociate - Commercial & technology disputes

Naomi is an associate in the commercial and technology disputes team at Bristows. She is particularly interested in the interplay between technological developments and their corresponding impact on the law and legal practice.

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Lucie FortuneSenior Associate

Lucie specialises in intellectual property litigation and dispute resolution. Her practice encompasses the full range of IP rights, including patents, trade marks, designs and copyright.

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Charlie FrenchPartner – Patent litigation

Charlie is an experienced IP litigator, focusing predominantly on patent disputes in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology sectors. In addition to her experience in the courts of England & Wales, she coordinates multinational patent litigation strategies for clients and has a particular interest in the Unified Patent Court (UPC).

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Sophie FrenchAssociate

Sophie is an associate in the commercial IP, IT and data protection group at Bristows. She advises clients on a variety of matters relating to digital transformation outsourcing, cloud, SaaS, software licensing and development, and matters involving the creation and exploitation of IP. She advises clients in a range of industry sectors, including life sciences, technology, media, energy and financial services.

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Robert GrahamOf Counsel

Robert is a disputes lawyer, with a specific focus on the resolution of technology-related disputes, including those relating to software development, outsourcing projects, software licensing and data security.

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Faye HarrisonOf Counsel

Faye specialises in Bristows’ data protection team. Her practice includes privacy compliance strategies, individual rights requests, direct marketing and data transfer mechanisms. She also has a background in commercial IT transactions and has spent time on a number of client secondments.

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Sam HarveyAssociate – Patent litigation

Sam acts in technical and SEP / FRAND disputes for a range of clients across the technology sector. His in-house experience has provided him with a unique client-focused perspective and his background in physics is a particular advantage in grappling with complex technical issues.

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Laura HarwoodSenior Associate

Laura specialises in IP and technology transactions. While she acts for a broad range of clients on their IP and technology projects, she has a particular focus on and expertise in advising clients in the fashion, luxury goods and retail sectors.

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Jamie HatzelAssociate – Life sciences regulatory

Jamie advises across the full spectrum of UK and EU life sciences regulatory frameworks for a wide variety of organisations: multinational MedTech companies, innovator pharmaceutical companies, leading research universities, and everything in between.

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Naomi HazenbergPartner – Patent litigation

Naomi specialises in patent litigation matters with particular focus on cases involving engineering and telecommunications technology.

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Toby HeaddonOf Counsel

Toby Headdon is an intellectual property and data litigator and advisor. He works mainly with clients in the technology, design, digital media and life sciences sectors.

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Will HewittAssociate

Will joined Bristows as a trainee solicitor in August 2019. He completed training in September 2021 and is now working in the commercial IP/IT team.

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Sarah HillSenior Associate – Commercial & technology disputes

Sarah has over 15 years’ experience advising on and project managing intensive commercial and technology disputes at all stages of litigation and arbitration. Sarah is also experienced in resolving disputes through ADR, including commercial negotiation and mediation.

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Kyrana HulsteinAssociate – Brands, designs & copyright disputes

Kyrana advises clients on a range of soft-IP matters, including portfolio management, advertising law and IP disputes.

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Matthew HuntSenior Associate – Competition litigation

Matthew specialises in UK and EU competition law, with a particular focus on competition litigation in the TMT and Life Sciences sectors and FRAND licensing disputes.

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Sarah HussleinSenior Associate – Brands, designs & copyright

Sarah is an experienced lawyer, advising on all aspects of trade marks and designs, including clearance searches, filing strategies, international portfolio management and disputes. She has particular expertise in representing clients before the United Kingdom and European Union Offices, as well as the French Courts.

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Sean IbbetsonSenior Associate – Brands, designs & copyright

Sean specialises in litigation and other forms of dispute resolution relating to trade marks, copyrights and designs. He also advises brands and publishers on the UK’s advertising regulation regime.

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Nellie JacksonPartner - Brands, designs & copyright

Nellie is the co-head of the brands designs & copyright team. Her experience covers the full range of intellectual property issues, with particular expertise in relation to trade mark portfolio management, brand protection and exploitation.

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Louisa JacobsSenior Associate – Commercial & IP transactions

Louisa specialises in transactional and non-contentious intellectual property matters with a particular focus on the life sciences industry, advising on R&D collaborations, IP licences and a range of other commercial arrangements.

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Myles JelfPartner – Patent litigation

Myles specialises in patent litigation primarily in the tech sector where his practice spans a range of industries from telecommunications to aerospace and beyond.

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Paul JordanPartner - Brands, designs & copyright

Paul specialises in advertising and marketing law and brand protection matters generally. His wide range of clients includes major brand owners, car manufacturers, retailers, airlines, financial service providers and media companies.

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Andrew KatzConsultant

Andrew has over 30 years’ experience in the technology field and is a leading free and open-source software lawyer.

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Antonia KendrickAssociate - Competition advice & investigations

Antonia specialises in competition law. Her practice covers all aspects of competition law, including merger control, investigations, litigation and competition law aspects arising out of commercial agreements.

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Hugo Kent-EganAssociate – Life sciences regulatory

Hugo advises clients on how to comply with the UK and EU life sciences regulatory frameworks, particularly those relevant to medicines and medical devices.

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Vik KhuranaPartner - IT & digital

Vik is a technology law expert, regularly leading complex tech transactions, digital transformations, outsourcing, cloud, AI, digital health and fintech projects. He co-leads our AI and digital health businesses and leads our fintech business. He is regularly asked to speak about tech law trends and issues at global conferences.

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Ellen LambrixPartner - Commercial & IP transactions

Ellen specialises in advising on commercial and IP transactions, particularly in the life sciences sector. Her clients range from multinational companies to start-ups and research organisations. She has significant experience advising on high value transactions including IP licensing, R&D collaborations and IP settlements.

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Sophie LawrancePartner – Competition litigation

Sophie specialises in EU and UK competition law and litigation. She has a particular interest in working with businesses in technology and pharmaceutical sectors, and in relation to the competition issues that arise in connection with standardised technology.

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Elisa LindemannAssociate

Elisa joined Bristows as a trainee solicitor in August 2019. She completed training in September 2021 and is now working in the commercial IP/IT team.

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Emma Macalister HallSenior Associate

Emma advises on a range of data protection and privacy issues, including those raised by the General Data Protection Regulation, e-Privacy and the UK Data Protection Act 2018.

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Rachel MumbyPartner – Patent litigation

Rachel is an experienced patent litigator who enjoys working with clients on cases before the courts in the UK and elsewhere as well as on strategic pre-litigation matters. She has a particular interest in the chemical and life sciences sectors due to her background in chemistry.

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Erik MüürseppAssociate

Erik is a commercial lawyer with a background in life sciences who advises a range of clients in innovative industries on the effective commercialisation of intellectual property and technology assets.

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Anna Ní UiginnSenior Associate – Data protection & privacy

Anna advises clients on data protection, cybersecurity and on all aspects of digital regulation, with a particular focus on Adtech, product counselling, and children’s privacy.

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Freya OllerearnshawSenior Associate – Commercial & technology disputes

Freya is a technology disputes lawyer with experience in advising both suppliers and customers at all stages of a dispute: from pre-action through to formal proceedings, both in front of the courts and arbitral tribunals.

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Gaby OmoleAssociate – Real estate

Gaby has experience working with a broad range of clients including landowners, developers, landlords and corporate occupiers on commercial property transactions.

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Max PalmerSenior Associate

Max is a commercial disputes lawyer with experience advising clients at all stages of a dispute.

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Jake PalmerAssociate – Brands, designs & copyright

Jake works on contentious and advisory matters relating to soft-IP: in particular trade marks, copyright, design rights, and passing off. Jake has experience working on soft IP cases in the High Court, Court of Appeal and Intellectual Property Enterprise Court.

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Naina PatelAssociate – Commercial & IP transactions

Naina advises on commercial IP, IT and data privacy issues, with a particular focus on the media and technology sectors.

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Claire Phipps-JonesOf Counsel

Claire is a senior associate specialising primarily in patent litigation in the life sciences sector. Her biochemistry background provides an excellent basis for the technical aspects of such disputes.

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Richard PinckneyPartner - Patent litigation

Richard is an intellectual property lawyer specialising in patent and technology litigation. With an engineering background, he excels in technical cases, FRAND and licensing disputes. He is known for his meticulous attention to detail and high standards.

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Florence PlisnerAssociate – Patent litigation and brands designs & copyright

Florence is an experienced intellectual property litigator whose practice spans the range of IP rights for clients in various industries.

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Rob PowellSenior Associate – Commercial & IP transactions

Rob operates across the firm’s commercial IP & tech practice areas, offering practical and commercially focused advice and assistance in each area to clients of all sizes, primarily in the media, entertainment and sport sectors.

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Matthew RaynorOf Counsel

Matthew specialises in intellectual property litigation with a particular focus on patent litigation in the technology sector.

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Dhara ReddyAssociate – Brands, designs & copyright

Dhara advises on a range of brand and IP related disputes across trade marks, copyright and designs. Her practice is both contentious and advisory. Dhara has provided advice to a range of clients on their brand protection strategies and has aided in implementing brand enforcement programmes.

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Iain RedfordPartner - Corporate & financing

Iain has extensive experience of mergers and acquisitions, IPOs, debt and equity financings, joint ventures and private equity transactions. His clients include UK and international corporates, institutional investors and technology growth companies.

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Hannah RigbyAssociate – Patent litigation

Hannah qualified as a solicitor in 2021 and has represented various life sciences clients in active patent litigation matters in addition to conducting initial invalidity and freedom to operate analyses. Hannah joined Bristows in July 2024.

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Helen RoseProfessional Support Lawyer

Helen is a professional support lawyer in the commercial IP/IT team. She specialises in transactions involving intellectual property and information technology. She advises clients for whom intellectual property and technology are a priority across a range of sectors, including life sciences, cloud computing and digital services.

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Nicholas RoundSenior Associate – Patent litigation

Nicholas has experience working with a broad range of technical subject matters including mobile telecommunications and broadcast technology, magnetic resonance medical devices and the use of electromagnetic signals as an indicator for the presence of oil or gas.

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Maria RyanAssociate – Patent litigation

Maria is a patent litigator who works on disputes in both the technology and life science sectors. She has a background in chemistry.

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Adrian SimPartner - IT & digital

Adrian currently serves as one of the firm’s Joint Managing Partners and is a leading technology transactional lawyer with recognised expertise in negotiating and advising on business-critical technology deals. He always brings a pragmatic and highly effective approach gained from his market knowledge of customer and supplier side transactions.

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Claire SmithPartner - Commercial & IP transactions

Claire specialises in commercial transactions that involve the development and commercialisation of IP rights and in corporate and investment deals where IP is an important asset. She works with a wide variety of clients, particularly those in the life sciences, technology, media and consumer product sectors.

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Stephen SmithJoint Managing Partner – Competition and Antitrust

Stephen currently serves as one of the firm's Joint Managing Partners and has 20 years’ experience advising across a broad range of EU and UK competition law matters.

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Stephanie TaylorOf Counsel (Trade Mark Attorney) – Brands, designs & copyright

Stephanie is Chartered Trade Mark Attorney with over 15 years’ private practice experience in assisting clients with all aspects of brand clearance and trade mark prosecution, as well as trade mark enforcement strategies.

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Rebekka ThomasAssociate – Patent litigation

Rebekka is a patent litigator specialising in disputes in the life sciences sector. In particular, Rebekka’s practice involves coordinating UK and cross-border patent disputes for biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies.

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Aida TohalaSenior Associate – Patent litigation

Aida specialises in patent litigation particularly in the life sciences sector. As well as UK litigation experience, she has many years' experience coordinating litigation across multiple jurisdictions across the world.

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Gareth WadleyPartner - Employment

Gareth is the head of Bristows’ employment team. He specialises in both employment and immigration and has particular expertise in advising clients with an international workforce, supporting them with the design and implementation of their global people strategies.

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Wes WalkerOf Counsel

Wes is a dispute resolution lawyer with deep experience across the full range of dispute resolution mechanisms. He has a particular focus on clients operating in the IT and life sciences sectors and cases involving complex technical subject matter.

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Matthew WarrenPartner - Commercial & IP transactions

Matthew advises on transactions involving the development, exploitation and transfer of intellectual property rights.

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Kim WeisserSenior Associate - Commercial and IP transactions

Kim advises clients in all fields of intellectual property law and technology transactional matters.

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Claire WilsonSenior Associate – Patent litigation

Claire specialises in intellectual property with a particular emphasis on patent litigation in the life sciences sector. Claire’s background in chemistry gives her a valuable understanding of the technical issues that can underlie intellectual property matters and enables her to provide clear intelligible advice.

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Sara WittonAssociate

Sara is an associate in the brands, designs and copyright team, advising on matters relating to all ‘soft’ IP rights including trade marks, designs, copyright and passing off as well as advertising compliance.

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Harry WoodcockAssociate – Commercial & IP transactions

Harry is an associate in the Commercial IP team at Bristows. He advises on transactions involving the development, transfer and exploitation of IP rights across the life sciences, gaming and media sectors.

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