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  • Digital Marketing and M&A – Is the heyday over?

    23 May 2014

    Miro Parizek, Principal Partner of Hampleton M&A and corporate finance advisers, gives an overview from the joint Hampleton/Lewis Silkin Executive Briefing on technology M&A for digital marketing executives.

  • Outsourcing (BPO)

    We think business guru Peter Drucker spoke a lot of sense in the early 1990s when he said “do what do you do best, and outsource the rest”. The concept remains true today.

  • An industry caught out in a game of legal musical chairs

    08 March 2016

    James Sweeting has been quoted in an article by The Times which discusses a change in copyright law which will eventually provide stronger legal protection for the rights-holders of popular, older designs and could signal an end to replica designer homeware. There is speculation that the implementation of this new law could be accelerated.

  • Hotels: Checking out of hotels and into homes

    01 September 2023

    The Department for Levelling Up in conjunction with the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs have published yet another consultation proposing changes to planning legislation, specifically amendments to the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (England) Order 2015 (“GPDO”).

  • Our History

    Lewis Silkin has a great history which we are extremely proud of, with the firm's beginnings starting from Lewis Silkin the man.

  • Our guide to the Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act 2024 – focusing on consumer law

    12 September 2024

    The Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act was introduced to the UK parliament on 25 April 2023, following a Green Paper back in 2018 and consultation by the government in 2021. The government said that one of its primary purposes is to protect consumers by strengthening the enforcement of consumer protection law (including by giving the CMA significant new powers and the prospect of GDPR style fines) and introducing new consumer rights, including by tackling subscription traps that it says currently cost consumers £1.6 billion.

  • Organising chaos: Creating electronic matter files

    18 January 2013

    In an article written for Managing Partner, Jan DeCerce discusses how she created user-friendly electronic matter files at Lewis Silkin. Due to the sheer volume of information that the firm deals with every day, it was necessary for the firm to find a system that uses the familiarity of Microsoft Outlook and combine it with our document management system. The answer to this was BAInsight's TotalView for Legal.

  • CSOP options – A new lease of life?

    08 December 2022

    As part of the infamous Mini-Budget published on 23 September 2022, the then-Chancellor announced some surprise changes to HMRC’s rules around ‘CSOP option’ grants – and they’re some of the few changes announced in that rather ill-fated reform package still to be going ahead.

  • Esports: Beyond the game – opportunities and challenges for brands

    22 September 2020

    Join us for this webinar where we will look at the opportunities and challenges that esports present for brands, and their advertising and marketing agencies.

  • Online monitoring

    10 September 2013

    In an article for PLC Magazine, Ellen Temperton discusses whether looking up information posted on social media, such as LinkedIn, Facebook or Twitter, or performing a search on an internet search engine, can be used as a basis for rejecting a job candidate, infringe an employee's data protection rights; or permit an employer to dismiss an employee.

  • Behind One Direction Fans

    23 October 2015

    We have been quoted in an article on One Direction fans' backlash against the band's management, which is appearing in the upcoming edition of Billboard magazine and online.

  • Brazilian Olympic Act: a last minute hurdle for ambushers

    07 July 2016

    With the Rio Olympic Games just around the corner, there have been concerns about the country’s readiness to play host to the competition, its athletes and scores of fans. Issues around stadium safety and anti-doping policies have been at the forefront of the debate, but there has also been, until very recently, a distinct lack of clarity for brands and sponsors planning marketing activities in Brazil in the lead up to the Games.

  • Advertising and the 2024 Olympic Games: Beating around le ambush

    08 April 2024

    With the Olympic and Paralympic Games fast approaching, brands and advertisers are thinking about how they can make the most of marketing opportunities presented by the Games while staying on the right side of the law and without infringing any rights.

  • Hazel Oliver

    Hazel Oliver

    Managing Practice Development Lawyer

    As a Managing Practice Development Lawyer, I am part of a specialist team which helps to keep colleagues and clients on top of developments in the rapidly changing world of employment law and policy.

  • Oliver Fairhurst

    Oliver Fairhurst

    Partner

    I advise on contentious and non-contentious issues relating primarily to intellectual property, advertising, EU and UK competition law, and reputation management (including defamation and privacy).

  • Going back to the office – the latest guidance

    31 March 2021

    The government has published new Covid-secure guidance for office settings which includes updated guidance on who should go to work. This article looks at what it means for office reopening plans.

  • The Great Occupier/Developer Office Debate: Landlord Equation and Challenges

    14 April 2021

    The past 12 months have changed the landscape of the commercial property market in the UK and beyond.

  • Lease Flexibility - The Great Office Occupier & Developer Debate

    11 May 2022

    The concept of ‘flexibility’ from a leasehold perspective can take many forms and within that there are degrees and differing perspectives. The coming years will see more flexibility within leases and/or licences and perhaps new arrangements that have yet to come to light. The future is unclear, but that will, inevitably, create opportunities and encourage change.

  • Landlord offering - The Great Office Occupier & Developer Debate

    19 May 2022

    The requirements of organisations returning to the workplace in a post pandemic scenario have undoubtedly been influenced by the learnings we have all experienced during the pandemic. As these business requirements continue to go through a state of flux, occupiers will be looking to their landlords to match the changes in demand.

  • Conclusions - The Great Office Occupier & Developer Debate

    27 May 2022

    In 2021, Lewis Silkin and HCG hosted three separate panel sessions where the views from senior members of the Occupier and Landlord communities were heard on a range of key, current topical issues within the real estate industry.

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