Robert Peake

Legal Services

Robert is a Partner in our legal services team, focusing on intellectual property disputes. Robert is an English solicitor and qualified Canadian lawyer with over a decade of litigation experience, in particular in relation to patents, trade marks, and copyright, as well as broader commercial and regulatory disputes, often with multi-jurisdictional aspects.  Robert is fully bilingual, practising in English and in French, and holds degrees in common law and civil law.

In non contentious matters, Robert assists clients with commercial arrangements for the creation and exploitation of intellectual property rights, including development agreements, licences and assignments. Robert regularly advises start-ups and SMEs on preliminary aspects to development work, including the protection of confidential information and contractual arrangements with consultant inventors and other third parties. He also has experience of advising clients on marketing and promotional matters, including comparative advertising and the use of social media.

Robert also advises clients on a range of regulatory matters, data protection and cyber security compliance, as well as regulatory investigations. Robert regularly assists clients in navigating UK data protection laws, including the drafting of relevant policies and contractual arrangements such as data processing agreements, often with particular regard to international data transfer issues.

Robert has a keen interest in the regulation of new technologies, including artificial intelligence and machine learning; he completed his LLM at the London School of Economics, and has returned as a guest lecturer on the Cyberlaw master’s course