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Working with some of the world’s most innovative and technologically advanced companies, Bird & Bird has a long-established reputation for providing cutting-edge legal advice to clients operating at the forefront of their sectors. Bird & Bird is passionate about understanding its clients’ businesses and is dedicated to making its clients’ lives easier by explaining complex issues in a refreshingly clear and concise manner.
The firm: Bird & Bird is a global law firm with over 900 lawyers and legal practitioners, delivering high-quality advisory, transactional and dispute resolution services. The firm has 23 offices in 16 countries across Europe, Asia and the Middle East, and offers a seamless, cross-border service based on clients’ needs.
Types of work undertaken: Underpinned by deep client and industry knowledge, the firm’s key sectors include:
Automotive: advising on all stages of a life cycle of a motor vehicle, from initial design, to sales and distribution, through to disposals.
Aviation, aerospace defence and security: advising on asset management and financing, civil aviation matters, including airlines, regulatory and competition issues, and aerospace and defence, including PPP/PFI and product liability.
Communications: advising clients ranging from national and international operators, to regulators and major financial institutions, on areas such as strategic joint ventures, new licensing and regulatory frameworks, PFI and submarine cable systems.
Electronics: advising clients operating in or serving the electronics industry, from R&D and component manufacturing, to technology licensing agreements.
Energy and utilities: advising on electricity generation, energy trading, renewable energy, cleantech and climate change, and upstream oil and gas.
Financial services: advising clients in the financial services sector on transactions, regulatory issues, commercial contracts and dispute resolution.
Food and beverage: advising on a full range of areas, including branding, labelling, health claims, fair trade and patents on novel foods.
Information technology: advising on all aspects of law relating to IT, from advice on software licensing through to major systems implementation projects.
Life sciences: advising clients in biotechnology, bioinformatics and pharmaceutical companies on licensing and drug development agreements, R&D collaboration, IP acquisitions and joint ventures.
Media: advising clients, from broadcasters to film and television producers, on a wide range of issues, including exploitation across all forms of digital media and emerging areas, such as user-generated content exploitation.
Sports: advising clients such as national and international sports governing bodies, event organisers and sponsors on issues including exploitation of commercial rights, brand management, regulatory and disciplinary issues.
Other offices: Bird & Bird has offices in Abu Dhabi, Beijing, Bratislava, Brussels, Budapest, Dusseldorf, Frankfurt, The Hague, Hamburg, Helsinki, Hong Kong, Lyon, Madrid, Milan, Munich, Paris, Prague, Rome, Shanghai, Singapore, Stockholm and Warsaw, and close ties with firms in other key centres in Europe, Asia and the United States.
Number of UK partners 74
Number of other UK fee-earners 172
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