A team of ‘exceptional and hardworking individuals’, Womble Bond Dickinson (UK) LLP harnesses its bench strength to operate across the retail, oil and gas, manufacturing, and technology sectors. ’Excellent’ practice leader James Love is well positioned to assist a diverse range of clients with anti-counterfeiting, brand enforcement, and licensing. Other key names to note in the practice include Amy Galloway and Rachel Jones.
Testimonials
Collated independently by Legal 500 research team.
‘Always deliver easy to understand advice on IP, trademarks, copyright, and design matters.’
‘Down-to-earth, friendly, easy to work with, and quick to respond to all matters.’
‘The WBD team has a great range of exceptional and hardworking individuals. We have confidence that when we instruct them, we will get great commercially framed advice at a great value. WBD would be our first choice for IP support in the UK.’
‘James Love is an excellent lawyer who always manages to get a result by being flexible, dynamic and listening to what our business needs.'
- 'Rose Smalley-Gordon is technically brilliant and very commercially focused.'
- 'Amy Galloway has an incredible knowledge of trademarks and always pulls a rabbit out of a hat!’
Key clients
- Geofabrics
- Department of Business and Trade
- National Grid
- Various Government Departments
- Global Brands
- Vetements
- Swiss Military
- NorthStandard
- DeTect
- Duckhams
- Barbour
- H&M
- Decathlon SA
- English Heritage
- Historic England
- University of the West of England
- Nesta
Work highlights
- Acting for Global Brands in their acquisition of the iconic drinks brand HOOCH from US-Canadian multinational drinks giant, Molson Coors.
- Assisting Vetements with the handling of multiple successful trade mark opposition and invalidation actions in the UK against a UK entity with links to a copycat/counterfeiter in China.
- Acting for the Swiss Government in connection with two UK trade mark oppositions to protect its iconic SWISS MILITARY brand.
Practice head
The lawyer(s) leading their teams.
James Love