Hansel Henson

IP/digital media.

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.

Trained Memery Crystal LLP; qualified 2004; joint founder and partner Hansel Henson 2009. Latest publication: ‘Protecting App Titles with Registered Trade Marks’, Games Industry International.

French and conversational Italian.

Newcastle-under-Lyme High School, Staffordshire; University of Sheffield (LLB; Post Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice); Université Nancy 2, France (French Law Diploma).

Family, socialising, travelling and most sports (including football, rugby and cricket).