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Brand Academy 2013 - Venture Harbour's Marcus Taylor's insights on 'brands building advocacy using digital media', as covered in The Drum

27 November 2013

Having spoken at Lewis Silkin's Brand Academy, which discussed the role of digital media in building brand value, Marcus Taylor emphasises that social and digital media offer an amazing opportunity for brands to establish more intimate and long term relationships with consumers.

Lewis Silkin advises Sager Group on joint venture with Cain Hoy to develop Islington Square

20 November 2014

Lewis Silkin has advised property development and construction company Sager Group on its joint venture with Cain Hoy Enterprises, a private investment company, to transform London’s Islington Square, an area close to Kings Cross, the City and Tech City.

Lewis Silkin advises StoryFirst on joint venture with Pinewood Group plc

26 January 2016

Lewis Silkin has advised StoryFirst PST Limited, the independent media investment company on its joint venture with leading provider of studio and related services to the global film and television industry, Pinewood Group plc.

Autonomous Vehicles - The Road Ahead

08 November 2017

Join us for our inaugural seminar on Autonomous Vehicles where we bring together a panel of industry experts to discuss some of the key opportunities and challenges associated with connected and driverless vehicles.

Lewis Silkin advises VCCP on the acquisition of adconnection

19 November 2015

Lewis Silkin LLP has advised VCCP (part of the Chime Communications) on its acquisition of media buying agency adconnection. Founded in 2002, VCCP is a fully integrated creative agency, with billings of over £220m.

Sherlock Holmes and the case of the vanishing director

30 August 2016

Any good director knows that they have a duty to act in accordance with the company's articles of association. These dictate how directors should be appointed and removed, how shares are transferred and how key decisions should be made. Yet real life isn’t always that neat in practice. So what happens if a company discovers that it has invalidly appointed directors over the past twelve years? A recent judgment tells us that company articles can be amended by conduct – but warns that your articles can still come back to bite you in the end.

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Are Chinese clubs getting value for foreign players?

20 July 2016

Karish Andrews, Partner at Lewis Silkin and part of the Sports Business Group has commented in Associate Press regarding the value of foreign football players being attracted to the Chinese Super League.

How to read an investment termsheet: Part 1 - The valuation

07 December 2016

David Willbe has written a piece for Startup Grind.

Service of a claim form on an agent - was it valid?

22 June 2017

In a recent case the High Court considered as a preliminary issue whether a claimant had validly served a claim form on what they considered was the agent of the claimant. The rules of service require that the defendant must be served at the place within the jurisdiction where it conducts business, or where it carries on its activities and which has a real connection with the claim. Therefore the question here was whether the agent’s office was a place at which the defendant conducted its business, or where it carried on its activities?

KitKat trademark battle: Nestlé v Cadbury

29 January 2016

James Sweeting has authored an article for The Times which discusses the High Court’s recent decision in Nestlé’s ongoing attempt to register the four-fingered KitKat bar as a UK trade mark. In the article, James explores the balance between allowing businesses to monopolise well-known aspects of their brand and the extent to which this could stifle fair competition.

Kylie v Kylie (Brands & IP Newsnotes - Issue 2)

28 March 2016

It isn’t often that trade mark oppositions receive mainstream media attention. Kylie Minogue has bucked that trend by filing an opposition to reality TV star Kylie Jenner’s trade mark application for ‘Kylie’ in the US.

Shiny talent, shady dealing: the case of Mauro Milanese v Leyton Orient Football Club

24 August 2016

The fallout from senior level football terminations rarely extends to a trial in the High Court. Most disputes are settled or go to arbitration, which is a private process. Leyton Orient’s sacking of its Director of Football Mauro Milanese, however, prompted Milanese to sue the club for wrongful dismissal, and the case went to trial in March 2016. Judgment was given in May 2016.

Clash of the Titans: Google v Uber (Brands & IP Newsnotes - issue 5)

23 June 2017

In February, Waymo, part of Google’s parent company, sued Uber for theft of confidential information. Allegedly, a former employee of Waymo, who had been a key part of Google’s driverless car initiative, took 14,000 files and then shortly jumped ship to start up his own autonomous vehicle company. A short time later, Uber acquired the start-up for $680 million.

Alex Kelham comments for Sports Market Intelligence: The lion's share: Premier League v UKIP

13 October 2017

Alex Kelham’s article has been published in SportCal which discusses the new UKIP lion (logo) and its possible trade mark infringement on The Premier League.

The Sky’s the limit? Sky v SkyKick referred to CJEU (Brands & IP Newsnotes - issue 7)

23 April 2018

In the latest instalment of Sky v SkyKick, the UK High Court has referred several questions to the CJEU relating to trade mark validity, requesting guidance on the limits of bad faith when a mark lacks clarity and precision.

Nando’s v Fernando’s – a peri peri good idea? (Brands & IP Newsnotes - issue 7)

23 April 2018

The well-known high street chicken restaurant, Nando’s, has attracted legal and national headlines in its pursuit of ‘copycat’ restaurant, Fernando’s, based in Reading.

Tom Merrick comments for LexisNexis: Requirement for non-reliance clause to be reasonable upheld (First Tower Trustees Ltd and anor v CDS (Superstores International) Ltd)

26 July 2018

Discussing the Court of Appeal decision in First Tower Trustees, Tom Merrick advises that sellers and landlords need to take extreme care in ensuring that replies to pre-contract enquiries are accurate and up to date and be alive to the potential risks in enforcing non-reliance clauses.