Haseltine Lake Kempner LLP

Amanda Mallon

Partner, Chartered Trade Mark Attorney.  Amanda loves working with brands and helps clients from a diverse range of industries from food to fashion, restaurants to real estate. She protects and exploit brand owners’ rights in the UK, EU and overseas. Amanda advises on all aspects of trade marks and designs including brand clearance and selection, filing strategies, portfolio management, oppositions and cancellations. She is a key member of the HLK trade mark filing practice, representing clients before the UK IPO and liaising closely with her colleagues in the EU TM team.

Brian Whitehead

Partner, contentious IP.

Jason Dainty

Advises on contentious and non-contentious IP matters, and with a specialism of brand protection and strategy. Jason is equally at home in the courts and trade mark registries. Jason files trade marks for clients in the UK and Europe and manages worldwide trade mark portfolios. He is experienced in bringing and defending trade mark oppositions in the High Court and at the UK and EU trade mark registries, as well as managing disputes involving trade marks, passing off, design rights, database right, domain names, trade secrets and copyright. He is experienced in the field of lookalike products, ex-employee confidential information and actions against liquidators. He has brought actions in the High Court, obtaining injunctions against liquidators and administrators to prevent the sale of client assets. Jason also drafts and advises on a variety of commercial IP agreements including R&D agreements, confidentiality agreements and licences. He advises Kurt Geiger, Giorgio Armani, Findus, Birdseye, Iglo, Callaway Golf, Ascential (WGSN, Retail Week), the Restaurant Group (Frankie & Benny’s, Chiquito), Ebuyer.com and Wren Kitchens, on brand protection and dispute resolution.

Richard Kempner

A senior partner. Far from being just a ‘figurehead’, Richard combines leading the firm’s litigation function and key client relationships with cutting edge legal work and winning new business. Richard is recognised as one of the UK’s leading Intellectual Property specialists with over 30 years’ experience in all aspects of contentious and non-contentious IP law. Richard assists his clients in relation to the whole IPR Lifespan, helping them with the identification, protection, exploitation and enforcement of their intellectual property rights as well as defending those facing allegations of infringement. He has a particular focus on the development of IP strategy and enforcement/defence, to help his clients gain competitive advantage through the effective use of IP rights. His regular clients include Farrow & Ball, JD Sports, Jet2.com, MedPro and Tesco.

Sanjeet Plaha

Senior Associate, solicitor specialising in trade mark and design prosecution and IP litigation.