England - London • TMT (technology, media and telecoms)
Simkins LLP
Simkins LLP acts for clients in crisis situations, especially those involving digital and social media issues in the defamation, privacy and data protection spaces. In addition, the team is heavily involved in pre-publication and pre-broadcast work. Gideon Benaim leads the team, representing leading clients in the financial services, technology and television sectors. Tom Iverson supports clients with matters concerning data protection, defamation, privacy and copyright law. Associate Jessica Welch is another key name, with experience in defamation, privacy, harassment and data protection.
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‘A Rolls Royce service to clients. Extremely responsive and always ahead of opponents.’
‘Gideon Benaim is calm under pressure. His decision making is always on point.'
- 'Jon Oakley is a great thinker and all over the detail. A calm head when it is needed most.’
‘Gideon Benaim heads up the exceptional department, and both Gideon and Jon Oakley were hugely professional, delicate, understanding and thorough. Advice was always succinct. Billing is as expected, and the team under Gideon and Jon were swift and thorough in their dealings with our client.’
‘Gideon Benaim is a very bright, considered, talented lawyer with years of experience heading up the team in reputation, and his knowledge and expertise ensures thorough exploration of all the facts before quality advice is given.’
‘Gideon Benaim heads the reputation team with extensive expertise in defamation, privacy, harassment and copyright.'
‘Simkins are genuinely concerned with their client’s interests – seeking to reach satisfactory resolutions before the matter comes to court. They are very quick into action and are available 24/7 – they realise that in this area of business speed is very important. They have a network of contacts around the world who can be called on to give unbiased advice in many jurisdictions. Overall very highly recommended.’
‘Gideon Benaim is outstanding. He gives sound counsel and is not afraid to say what he thinks is the best advice, regardless of whether this is what the client thinks they want to hear. I also recommend Jon Oakley.’
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Jess’s practice focuses on media disputes and reputation protection. Her experience encompasses intellectual property and contractual disputes and working with high profile individuals and corporates on defamation, misuse of private information and data protection claims.
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Tom specialises in dispute resolution in the media and entertainment industries. His practice is split between two main areas: entertainment-related disputes; and reputation protection and media law. Tom also frequently applies his skills to general commercial litigation. On the entertainment side, Tom has spent over 11 years advising on copyright, performers’ rights, false endorsement, passing off, royalty, management, shareholder and other contractual and tortious claims for both claimants and defendants. His experience covers music, film, television, theatre, computer games, publishing, art, design and sport. Tom has advised many world-famous entertainers and rights-holders, and acted in some of the most significant and high-profile cases of the last two decades. Tom’s media-related practice focuses on reputation protection for high-profile individuals and companies. His experience includes acting for claimants and defendants in defamation proceedings, obtaining privacy injunctions and injunctions for breach of confidence, advising on harassment issues, and defending Advertising Standards Authority complaints.
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Gideon Benaim