Keystone Law

Media and entertainment.

Meriel is an experienced commercial and intellectual property solicitor. She trained with Linklaters and subsequently worked in-house for Walt Disney and then again in private practice for Farrer & Co which gives her a commercial pro-active approach to advising clients. Meriel advises media, manufacturing, fashion, sporting and software clients on their commercial arrangements and protecting /exploiting their intellectual property rights. The areas in which Meriel specialises are; advising on all aspects of online commerce including privacy policies (data protection) and distance selling; international licensing; manufacture and distribution agreements; software licensing development and maintenance agreements; terms and conditions of sale and purchase; sponsorship and event agreements; including broadcasting of events; advertising and marketing agreements; international non-disclosure and confidentiality agreements; consultancy agreements; broadcasting; channel and satellite agreements; research and development agreements; book publishing agreements; film option agreements; consultancy agreements; agency agreements; outsourcing agreements.

Trained Linklaters, qualified 1994. Disney 1995-99; Farrer & Co, 1999-2005; Keystone Law, 2005.