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James Agnew

James Agnew

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James Agnew is a supervising associate at Simmons & Simmons. He has worked on a range of contentious and non-contentious intellectual property matters including commercial licensing, collaboration agreements, software protection, settlement...

Richard Brady

Richard Brady

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Richard Brady is a lawyer who has spent many years working in Europe and the Middle East in the legal, financial and insurance arenas. He has a degree from Cambridge College of Teachers (2005) on Teaching English and founded the British Legal...

Rachel Burnett

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Rachel Burnett runs her own IT legal services firm, which specialises in all IT-related agreements: IT services, products and systems, data and information provision, e-commerce, copyright licensing and assignment. Before her legal career,...

Tom Carver

Tom Carver

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Tom Carver is a partner at McCarthy Denning. He has broad experience in patent litigation (infringement and validity) in pharmaceuticals, medical and mechanical devices and electronics, including advice concerning threats provisions. Tom...

Sarah Cowlishaw

Sarah Cowlishaw

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Sarah Cowlishaw is a Partner at Covington & Burling LLP. She advises clients on a broad range of life sciences matters. She supports innovative pharmaceutical, biotech, medical device, diagnostic and technology companies on regulatory,...

Niels  Ersbøll

Niels Ersbøll

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Niels Christian Ersbøll is a partner in the EU Antitrust practice, chair of the European Competition practice, and head of the Brussels office. He mainly advises clients on EU competition law in relation to merger control, cartels and...

Zeno Frediani

Zeno Frediani

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Zeno Frediani advises clients on UK and EU competition law in relation to merger control, cartels and restrictive practices, abuse of dominance, and private damages claims. He also advises clients on the UK’s investment screening powers for...

Elsa Glauert

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Elsa Glauert, Supervising Associate at Simmons & Simmons, has been involved in a range of intellectual property matters with a particular focus on contentious matters in the life sciences sector. In her day to day practice Elsa advises on...

Sharmela Kalmer

Sharmela Kalmer

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Sharmela Kalmer is a Partner at Gowling WLG (UK) LLP. Sharmela is a trusted advisor to a number of emerging and established innovative technology and life sciences companies operating in a range of sectors, including biotech and medtech. With a...

Julia Kaufmann

Julia Kaufmann

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Julia Kaufmann, Partner, Osborne Clarke, advises both national and international companies on all legal matters relating to information technology, data licensing and data privacy law, cyber security, AI, ecommerce, marketing, and digital...

Michala Meiselles

Michala Meiselles

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Michala Meiselles is a solicitor in England and Wales specialising in international business law, cross-border transactions and compliance. Starting off her career at Berrymans Lace Mawer, she has since worked in private practice and as in-house...

Lazarinka Naydenova

Lazarinka Naydenova

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Lazarinka Naydenova, Senior Associate with Arnold Porter, focuses on all aspects of European (EU) competition law, with particular emphasis on merger control proceeding, abuse of dominance, cartel matters, and state aid. Lazarinka joined...

Fred Nicolle

Fred Nicolle

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Fred Nicolle is a UK and European qualified patent attorney (CPA, EPA) at Simmons & Simmons. He has over 15 years experience specialising in patent prosecution and contentious matters for the life sciences sector. He has particular...

Stephen Reese

Stephen Reese

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Stephen Reese is a partner at Clifford Chance and advises clients on both contentious and non-contentious intellectual property matters including patents, trade marks, trade secrets and copyright. Stephen represents and advises a broad range of...

Florian Reiling

Florian Reiling

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Dr Florian Reiling, MBA, has more than 10 years of experience in advising his clients in relation to all matters of intellectual property law. His main focus, however, lies on the commercialisation of IP rights in the Life Science & Healthcare...

Peter Rudd-Clarke

Peter Rudd-Clarke

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Peter Rudd-Clarke specialises in helping businesses navigate regulatory challenges and liability risks, particularly in the life sciences, healthcare and consumer products sectors.  Peter advises a range of businesses including medical device...

Alan Simmons

Alan Simmons

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Alan Simmons LLB (Hons) in Law with French , LLM in International Human Rights Law, RSA CETEFLA. Alan is a highly experienced trainer of legal English who has been working with international lawyers across the globe for nearly 30 years. He shares...

Arun Singh OBE

Arun Singh OBE

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Arun Singh is cited and ranked in the Chambers Guide to the world’s leading lawyers. He concentrates on international investment, joint ventures, licensing of technology, research and development, M&A, energy, outsourcing and corporate...

Susan Singleton

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Susan Singleton is a solicitor with her own London solicitor’s firm, Singletons, which specialises in competition law, intellectual property, data protection and corporate/commercial law, both non-contentious and...

Scott Styles

Scott Styles

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Scott C. Styles is senior lecturer at the University of Aberdeen Law School. He is Assistant Editor of Daintith and Willoughby, the leading book on UK oil and gas law. He has many years experience of teaching and researching oil and gas law, with...

Mario Subramaniam

Mario Subramaniam

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Mario Subramaniam is a Legal Director in the Life Sciences Transactions team at Pinsent Masons. As a former research scientist, he has a passion for the life sciences and has expertise in advising clients on intellectual property, commercial and...

Helen Swaffield

Helen Swaffield

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Helen Swaffield is a practising Barrister with over 25 years’ experience in Commercial and Public Law including commercial contracts and regulation, EU Law, international outsourcing and procurement, competition, franchising, supply and...

Ewan Townsend

Ewan Townsend

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Ewan Townsend's practice focusses on the commercial transactions involved in the development, exploitation and commercialization of medicinal products, representing many of the world's most sophisticated biotechnology and pharmaceutical...

Mark Weston

Mark Weston

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Mark Weston has run his own law firm, Weston Legal, since 1 January 2024. He is also a consultant at Hill Dickinson LLP where he joined in February 2016 as a partner and Head of its Commercial, TMT & IP Practice. Before that, he was a partner and...