Private sector

We provide a fully outsourced solution to Mace, a global construction company, developing and implementing an extensive global brand protection programme, including; advising on brand protection strategy, instructing and co-ordinating the filing and prosecution of all trademark applications, reporting and advising on issues arising in respect of the various applications, negotiating coexistence arrangements and dealing with infringing third party use of identical or similar brands.

Advising Rapiscan Systems Limited and its parent, OSI Systems Incon patent infringement proceedings brought by American Science & Engineering and, at the same time, a revocation action at the UK Intellectual Property Office relating to one of Rapiscan’s backscatter x-ray detection patents. We were able to instantly provide them with a dedicated team which understands Rapiscan’s commercial and technical objectives, dealing with a dispute that is valued in excess of £10 million, listed with technical difficulty rating of 4, and with a five day trial listed for March 2016.

Advising a UK cash management specialist, in relation to an agreement with a major high street supermarket to service its 3,700 ATMs across the UK. Annual revenue under current agreement is expected to exceed £20million. This agreement is the single largest new contract signed by our client since 2008. We negotiated a very complex agreement on behalf of our client within a very tight timescale.

Advising the US SIPA Trustee of Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC and Bernard L. Madoff in respect of, and overseeing his English, European and Commonwealth claims arising from the world’s largest fraud. These claims raise multiple, formerly untested, areas of cross-border insolvency law, involving billions of dollars redemptions and fees paid prior to the collapse of Madoff’s infamous Ponzi scheme.