INDIA BUILDINGS, WATER STREET, LIVERPOOL, L2 0GA
- Tel:
- Work 0151 227 2601
- Fax:
- Fax 0151 227 3223
- DX:
- 718100 LIVERPOOL 16
- Web:
- www.weightmans.com
John Schorah
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- Work +44 151 243 9897
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Work Department
Corporate.
Position
General corporate transactional and commercial contract work. Acts for a number of clients in the computer games industry on funding, acquisitions and development and publishing deals, as well as advising a wide range of commercial and institutional clients in other sectors on corporate finance matters, funding structures, commercial contracts and intellectual property exploitation. Also handles partnering arrangements, constitutional issues and commercial contracts for a number of public authority clients.
Career
Career: Trained Cuff Roberts; qualified 1990; Brabner Holden Bank Wilson (now Brabners Chaffe Street) 1990-2000; head of corporate 1998-2000; deputy managing director and managing director of a UK plc in the entertainment and leisure sector; partner Weightmans 2003; commercial director 2007.
Education
Education: University College Cardiff (1986 BSc (Econ) Management Studies); College of Law, Chester (1987 Common Professional Examination; 1988 LSF).
Leisure
Leisure: Travel, natural history, Everton football club, scuba diving.
Practice Areas
Corporate and commercial; Intellectual property; Information technology