Hansel Henson

David works with brands and digital media across the range of areas with which they connect with consumers, including sport, fashion, TV, gaming and interactive entertainment. In recent years David has advised many leading global brands and content and platform providers. This work ranges from commercial contracts to infringement matters.

Justine Flockhart

A strategic adviser to brand owners, Justine is a Partner at Hansel Henson specialising in advising on intellectual property creation, protection and exploitation. She also leads the firm’s trade mark portfolio practice. Justine believes that protection and commercialisation of IP is key to any business. She is passionate about helping her clients to protect against copycats and those who wrongly assert rights to stifle competition and innovation. Justine advises on pre-action correspondence, settlement negotiations and acts on litigation in the Hight Court and IPEC. She advises clients on what IP rights they have, and uses her expertise to protect these rights, and draft agreements that commercialise these rights. With a thriving trade mark portfolio practice, she is experienced in trade mark filing, prosecution, portfolio maintenance, management both nationally and internationally, as well as oppositions and cancellations and the defence of such actions at the UKIPO. Her clients come from a wide variety of sectors including: the fashion, media, entertainment and creative industries.

Sarah Wells

Sarah is a Partner who specialises in intellectual property, contract and commercial law and corporate transactions. Experienced in drafting, negotiating and advising clients on a wide variety of commercial contracts, Sarah has particular expertise in technology contracts and an in depth knowledge of issues and contracts related to e-commerce and marketing, including in relation to social media influencers, software licensing and other commercial agreements within the technology, retail and digital media sector. A corporate lawyer too, Sarah acts for the firm’s clients in M&A transactions and investments for IP rich companies in the digital-media, technology and brand rich sectors.

Thomas Henson

Tom is joint founding partner of Hansel Henson and his specialist areas of practice are intellectual property, contract and commercial law. More particularly, Tom has experience and knowledge of advising on issues and disputes around identifying, protecting, owning, exploiting and enforcing intellectual property rights; negotiating and interpreting commercial contracts of all kinds; regulatory issues in the media and technology field (for example, consumer-facing regulations applying to digital sales and data protection and privacy laws); and advising on general legal/commercial due diligence for a range of business-related matters from initial product/service launch through to investment and business sale. Tom’s clients come from a variety of industries with many having a media and technology focus in a constantly evolving technological and regulatory environment. Example clients include smart phone and tablet app publishers, software development houses (in, for example, industries including m-health, environmental consultancy and the finance sector), TV broadcasters, merchandisers, design and marketing agencies, event production agencies, high-street retailers and individual designers and inventors. A recent example of work Tom undertook was to act for and advise the smartphone and tablet game publisher, Future Games of London, from its beginnings in 2009 through to its sale to French head-quartered games giant, Ubisoft last year.

Will Holmes

Will is a Senior Associate at Hansel Henson who is an intellectual property and media law specialist. Undertaking both contentious and non-contentious work, he advises on copyright, trade mark, designs and media matters, especially disputes. Will is an expert in the protection and exploitation of IP and licensing and has experience of litigating at all levels as well as advising on regulatory IP and advertising issues. With a particular interest in the publishing industry and rights acquisition and exploitation in film, TV and video games, Will acts for authors, video game developers and museums. He also advises clients in the life science and food and drink sectors.

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