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Field Fisher Waterhouse LLP

35 VINE STREET, LONDON, EC3N 2AA, ENGLAND
Tel:
Work 020 7861 4000
Fax:
Fax 020 7861 0084
DX:
823 LONDON CITY EC3
Web:
www.ffw.com
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Duncan Black

Tel:
Work +44 20 7861 4926
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Field Fisher Waterhouse LLP

Work Department

Financial services.

Position

Partner, financial services: contentious and regulation

Career

Trained Burchell & Ruston; qualified 1987; made partner at Field Fisher Waterhouse LLP 2008. Trainee, Burchell & Ruston 1985-7; solicitor, Titmuss, Sainer & Webb 1987-1992; partner 1992. Following Titmuss, Sainer & Webb’s merger to become Dechert LLP in 2000, Duncan remained as a partner at the firm until moving to Field Fisher Waterhouse LLP in 2008.Publications include: co-author of ‘Enforcement of a Judgment’ (1997 Sweet & Maxwell); Co-author ‘Law & Regulation of Investment Management’ (2004 Thomson).

Languages

English.

Member

City of London Law Society’s litigation sub-committee; Association of Regulatory and Disciplinary Lawyers; International Bar Association.

Education

Latymer Upper School; Lincoln College, University of Oxford (1981-84 MA, law).

Leisure

Bucks Club.

Practice Areas

Litigation - banking; Financial services; Securitisation

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    THE EUROPEAN COURT OF JUSTICE (ECJ) IS IN THE midst of considering questions referred to it by the UK courts in three separate cases that should clarify the law regarding comparative advertising. This type of advertising, particularly when it identifies a competitor or a competitor’s goods or services by referring to a registered trade mark, is of particular concern to trade mark owners as their competitors normally seek to make unfavourable comparisons with their own goods or services, or to take advantage of being associated with the market leader’s brand.
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