Advertising & Marketing
We have been advising clients in the advertising sector since the early 1970s. We have advised the founders of advertising agencies which became icons of the British advertising industry, to many of the world’s largest agency networks, as well as leading independent agencies.
Along the way, we’ve advised them on mergers and acquisitions, public company flotations and ultimately on to their sale. We helped them hire people and fire people, and now we teach them how look after millennials. We advised on them on their contracts, their IP, their premises, their disputes, their tax and their immigration issues.
But a few years ago, advertisers began to realize that if they wanted specialist advertising advice, they should speak to a firm that is immersed in the business. So now we advise them too, particularly in relation to data protection and privacy (including the GDPR), advertising regulation, talent contracts, employment status of freelancers and intellectually property protection, enforcement and disputes.
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Advertising & Marketing - Social Media: Update on the legal and regulatory risks of influencer marketing
20 November 2019Regulators in both the United Kingdom and United States are taking an increasingly close interest in the activities of influencers.
Advertising & Marketing - Is increased privacy regulation killing targeted advertising?
17 September 2019Whilst all the attention has been focussed on the GDPR, European legislators have been busy putting the finishing touches to the new E-Privacy Regulation.
Advertising & Marketing - Mergers & Acquisitions: Somewhere over the rainbow…may be your future
20 June 2019The M&A landscape in the advertising & marketing and related technology sector has become characterised by new buyers from a variety of non-traditional backgrounds, but with the traditional network holding companies still being the most prolific acquirers.
Advertising & Marketing - Mental Health: What should agencies do to protect the mental well-being of employees?
16 May 2019NABS have reported that calls to its advice line are up 26% and the need for emotional support is the most common reason for making contact (representing a third of calls).
Advertising & Marketing - Gender Pay Gap Reporting: Has it done any good? And will ethnicity pay reporting follow?
28 February 2019The perceived success of gender pay gap reporting has emboldened the government to start a consultation on compulsory ethnicity pay reporting but has gender pay gap reporting really changed the pay practices of agencies? We will:
Geraint Lloyd-Taylor comments for LexisNexis: Moderating marketing - can the law take a stand against problematic adverts?
14 February 2019In an article for Lexis Nexis, Geraint Lloyd-Taylor discusses the background of the recent backlash of certain adverts, highlighting that ‘time will tell’ how effectively the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) will regulate this ‘potentially thorny and subjective issue’.
Lewis Silkin advises its longstanding client Publicis Groupe, on the sale of Publicis Health Solutions to Altamont Capital Partners
12 February 2019Lewis Silkin has advised its longstanding client Publicis Groupe, on the sale of Publicis Health Solutions to Altamont Capital Partners.
Alan Hunt comments in Drapers magazine - Gucci apologises for 'racist' jumper
08 February 2019Alan Hunt has commented in an article for Drapers which discusses luxury fashion brand Gucci's apology for selling a black balaclava jumper after social media users claimed it was racist.