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Overview
Creating, exploiting and protecting intellectual property rights is at the heart of many of our clients’ businesses.
We cover all the major creative industry sectors, including advertising, digital & tech, film & TV, music, publishing, sport & gaming and theatre.
We advise a wide range of clients from large multinational corporations to private individuals, from owner-managed businesses to cultural institutions. The main focus of our work includes the drafting and negotiation of commercial contracts, intellectual property advisory work, and dispute resolution.
Whoever our client is, our approach is founded on a profound understanding of their business. This, together with our network and close professional relationships in the creative industries, enables us to give our clients real-world, expert advice that shapes and informs their commercial decisions.
Expertise
Our areas of expertise include the following:
- Copyright and related rights
- Trade marks (registered and unregistered)
- Database rights
- Design rights (registered and unregistered)
- Advice on content creation and exploitation
- Advice on the financing of media projects
- Advice on catalogue and product acquisitions and disposals
- Stand-alone due diligence
- Outsourced or overflow business affairs
- Litigation and dispute resolution
KEY CONTACT
KEY CONTACTS
For trade mark enquiries, please contact Jim Dennis. For copyright and other IP-related enquiries, please contact Euan Lawson.
Euan Lawson
Partner
Jim Dennis
Partner
Euan Lawson
Partner
Simkins are one of the leading specialist firms in music. They have an excellent team, with deep industry knowledge and a thorough understanding both of their clients’ needs and the specialist areas of law involved.
Simkins provides a great range of experience and skills within the division so all areas of film production are covered.
…very supportive while getting on with the job in a very efficient way and handling tricky situations
Great team; extremely client focused; great on-point legal advice but pragmatic and helpful – solution orientated.
Great team, clever, personable and commercially astute.
Simkins is unquestionably one of the leading specialist teams in this sector. They have extensive experience and a detailed understanding of this field. There are very few firms which can match them.
