Technology & Software
Ownership rarely sits where the org chart suggests. We review development history, contractor arrangements, and open-source exposure before it becomes a diligence problem, negotiate the licensing and SaaS terms that hold up at enterprise scale, and act on the disputes that follow when they do not.
Manufacturing & Industrial
Registered and unregistered design rights, tooling and mould ownership, supply and distribution agreements, and enforcement against copies produced by former manufacturing partners. Supply chain disputes are usually contract problems with an IP tail.
Financial Services & Funds
Lending facilities and security packages, fund and portfolio transactions, restrictive covenant enforcement on team moves, and disputes involving proprietary models, data sets, and methodologies. Regulatory exposure is advised on alongside the commercial position.
Life Sciences & Healthcare
Patent strategy and freedom-to-operate, research collaboration and joint development agreements, institutional and university licensing, and the confidentiality regimes that protect work before it is filed. Diligence here is usually patent diligence.
Consumer Brands & Retail
Trade mark portfolio strategy across territories, franchising and distribution structures, parallel import and grey market issues, and counterfeit enforcement scaled to the commercial harm actually at risk rather than the number of infringements found.
Energy & Infrastructure
Joint ventures and consortium arrangements, long-form construction and services contracts, variation and delay claims, and the arbitration provisions that determine how those claims get resolved and where any award can be enforced.
Media & Entertainment
Rights ownership and chain of title, talent and production agreements, exploitation and adaptation rights, distribution and syndication terms, and disputes over use of work beyond its licensed scope.
Professional Services
Partnership and shareholder arrangements, senior hires and team moves, restrictive covenant enforcement, client and confidential information disputes, and professional negligence claims on both sides.
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The question is whether the practice areas fit.
Industry familiarity shortens the briefing, but it is not the qualifying test. What matters is whether the matter falls within commercial disputes, intellectual property and patents, M&A, corporate and commercial, banking and restructuring, or employment and regulatory.
If it does, unfamiliarity with your sector is a few hours of reading rather than a reason to decline. If it does not, we will say so and, where we can, point you toward counsel who handles that work properly.
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Tell us about the sector and the situation.
A short description of what happened is more useful than a formal brief at this stage.
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