Europe

Expertise

Capital markets
Corporate/ M&A
Commercial and technology
Defamation and reputation management
Dispute resolution
IP and trademarks
Real estate
Sports

Our dedicated Europe team comprises lawyers with in-depth legal and commercial experience acting for international clients across the continent. In addition, we have a wide network across regional law firms, financial institutions and corporate contacts.

We advise clients in Europe across a range of sectors on corporate and commercial, tech and IP. We enjoy a wealth of experience which includes:

International intellectual property advice, including the structuring and protection of global brands.
Commercial disputes with English jurisdiction and/or choice of law.
The application of EU law and regulations in England and Wales.
Reputation management within Europe (including on the internet).
Negotiating contracts and arrangements for sports broadcasters and acting on behalf of sports agencies and high profile players.
Our clients range from global brands in the hotel, travel and leisure industry to SMEs, start-ups and individuals seeking to grow their businesses internationally.

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Expertise

Capital markets
Corporate/ M&A
Commercial and technology
Defamation and reputation management
Dispute resolution
IP and trademarks
Real estate
Sports

We advise clients in Europe across a range of sectors on corporate and commercial, tech and IP. We enjoy a wealth of experience which includes:

International intellectual property advice, including the structuring and protection of global brands.
Commercial disputes with English jurisdiction and/or choice of law.
The application of EU law and regulations in England and Wales.
Reputation management within Europe (including on the internet).
Negotiating contracts and arrangements for sports broadcasters and acting on behalf of sports agencies and high profile players.
Our clients range from global brands in the hotel, travel and leisure industry to SMEs, start-ups and individuals seeking to grow their businesses internationally.

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Examples of work undertaken by our lawyers

Advising various holiday and timeshare providers in litigation involving several jurisdictions including Spain, Malta and the UK.
Assisting French lawyers in a landmark case in the French courts with relation to claims relating to unofficial music calendars and alleging infringement of image rights and unfair competition.
Representing the music industry collective body, Trademark and Rightsholders Against Piracy (TRAP), overseeing raids across the UK and Europe of manufacturers of infringing band /artist merchandise.
Acting as lead legal adviser on all matters relating to the new tennis format and series of Tie Break Tens including the negotiation and drafting of all arrangements with broadcasters covering more than 100 different countries and the staging of events in Spain, Austria, the U.S. and Australia.

Advising on the renegotiation of a global long term branding licence to use the easyProperty brand with the Easy Group, and particularly Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou. The transaction involved leading an intensive re-negotiation of a global brand licence to enable the easyProperty brand to form part of a larger collaboration with the international luxury agency brand Fine & Country, easyProperty and Guild of Property Professionals brands. The deal also involved a renegotiation of the existing licence arrangements with Sir Stelios’ easyGroup.

Advising in connection with a recently launched English language digital and content creation channel for Spanish football La Liga. Advising on the securing of content and associated rights with various high profile Spanish footballers and managers.
From 2008 until the case was settled in 2010, acting for the Danish Professor Henrik Thomsen, who was sued for libel by the U.S., UK and Norwegian GE Healthcare companies after he had raised well-founded suspicions of a link between a pharmaceutical product and the rare but serious disease, nephrogenic systemic fibrosis.
Representing a UK subsidiary of Swedish company, Gammadata Matteknik I Uppsala AB, on its acquisition of the vacuum generators business of Thermo Electron Corporation in the U.S. and Germany.
Representing a major Italian energy public company’s turbine subsidiary and a major Swiss electrical engineering company in connection with the project finance of their provisioning of two Chilean power plants, with generators and cabling and additional electrical turbine equipment totalling $50m.

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