Gowling WLG

Legal Director

Mathilda Davidson helps clients to exploit and protect their intellectual property (IP) across a range of different markets and sectors. A transactional IP specialist, she is at home in the complex world of licensing, technology transfer and R&D in life sciences, high tech and manufacturing. She advises on the full spectrum of IP transactional issues in the life sciences sector and wider IP industries.

Mathilda advises companies and research institutions of all sizes on research and development, collaboration and licensing deals. She has also spent time on secondment in the legal team of Cancer Research Technology (now Cancer Research Horizons, part of Cancer Research UK), where she advised on R&D partnerships with the international research community and industry, including an innovative international collaboration with public cancer registries around the world and the UN's International Agency for Research on Cancer.

Mathilda has been identified as a "rising star" by Managing Intellectual Property in 2018-2023.