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DMH Stallard LLP Offices

DMH Stallard LLP
NORTH WEST OFFICE SUITE, 1ST FLOOR
ONE JUBILEE STREET
BRIGHTON
BN1 1GE
England
Visit website 01273 329833 01273 747500

Debbie Venn

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01273 744250 debbie.venn@dmhstallard.com View profile

Work Department

Commercial

Position

Partner

Career

With more than 17 years’ experience, Debbie has worked with global brands, household names and entrepreneurial businesses advising on trading arrangements, contracts, collaboration agreements, intellectual property rights protection and commercialisation, licensing and royalty agreements, IT contracts (software licences, support and maintenance, SaaS / Cloud, managed services and IT infrastructure contracts), online trading / website regulation, privacy and data protection issues (including GDPRs).

Debbie has worked with manufacturing and distribution businesses, including logistics and international trade agreements, agency terms and sales conditions. She is also an acknowledged expert in the travel sector, working with tour operators, travel agents, destination management companies and suppliers, advising on a wide range of matters including package travel and ATOL regulations, booking conditions and agency agreements.  Debbie has also spoken at many ABTA events and contributed to travel and other publications.

 

Work highlights

  • Working with some of the UK’s most successful vineyards on matters such as third party growing arrangements, bottling, “white label” production, warehousing and distribution
  • Advising a global engineering business on the protection of IP rights, confidentiality arrangements, data sharing and partnership agreements, IP and patent assignment / licensing
  • Acting for a leading provider of digital cameras, printers and services in respect of the sale of complex machinery, provision of online services and licensed software products, hardware and firmware, IP rights, GDPR compliance and framework contracts
  • Drafting booking terms and conditions and contracts for operating a luggage handling and storage service for an aviation services company and advising on the set up and operation of a remote airport service desk
  • Advising an award-winning leisure business on trading arrangements including supplier contracts, terms with accommodation providers, contracts for the provision of children’s entertainment packages and booking conditions for school programmes.
  • Advising a specialist travel package agency on Package Travel Regulations, bonding arrangements, ABTA membership, booking conditions, supplier contracts and Local Tour Operator Agreements, and ongoing advice on data protection compliance
  • Advising a process and payment platform provider on GDPR compliance, data processing agreements, IT security policies and retention processes, software licensing and services contracts; also on compliance with the Payment Surcharges Regulations
  • Advising a super-computing platform on the protection of its complex software engines for the creation of multiple processing activities and algorithm application in various sectors, including gaming, and on IP ownership of the software

Languages

English

Lawyer Rankings

South East > TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Intellectual property

(Leading individuals)

Debbie Venn – DMH Stallard LLP

With activity across the entertainment and media, retail, and technology sectors, DMH Stallard LLP handles post-Brexit IP protection, co-existence agreements as well as detailed pre-product launch risk analysis. Co-lead of the team Tim Ashdown splits his time between Brighton and London and is reputed for his expertise in contentious IT matters and software copyright. Also a co-lead of the team, John Yates in Gatwick helms data protection issues, while Debbie Venn and Rebecca Leeves are based in Brighton, the former is often engaged in business policies, whereas the latter assists clients with IP licensing arrangements and strategy.

South East > TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > IT and telecoms

(Leading individuals)

Debbie Venn – DMH Stallard LLP

DMH Stallard LLP is particularly well-versed in cyber security, data protection, e-commerce, as well as SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS arrangements. Tim Ashdown in Brighton heads the contentious sphere and is seasoned before the High Court. On the non-contentious side, John Yates is based in Gatwick and handles data protection issues, while Rebecca Leeves and Debbie Venn in Brighton are noted for their expertise of the travel sector.

South East > Corporate and commercial > Corporate and commercial: Kent, Surrey, Sussex

DMH Stallard LLP excels in complex and high-value deals for national and multinational brands in the e-learning, vineyard and travel sectors. The firm has grown a local Brighton M&A practice through its merger with Griffith Smith LLP in March 2022. Heading up the team from Gatwick is corporate expert Jonathan Grant, who has significant experience in transactions involving management buyouts and buy-ins as well as business sales, and commercial lead John Yates, who regularly acts on IP projects, complex IT contracts and data protection matters. Based in Guildford is Helen Mead, who specialises in share and asset acquisitions and disposals, investments, and private equity matters. Abigail Owen is also noted for her work in complex regional, national and international M&A transactions across a range of industries. Debbie Venn is another key lawyer.

London > Transport > Travel

(Leading individuals)

Debbie Venn – DMH Stallard LLP

The ‘stellar’ commercial and regulatory practice at DMH Stallard LLP is headed up by Brighton-based ‘excellent travel specialist lawyer’ Debbie Venn. The team has a strong reputation for its capabilities advising its plethora of clients on matters that range from advising on package holiday travel terms and arrangements, to related privacy policy and data protection advice. Within travel, ‘expert in her field’ Rebecca Thornley-Gibson and solicitor Abigail Maino both have an employment specialism, their work often featuring overseas worker issues and jurisdictional issues in relation to seasonal work abroad, for example. Helen Mead and Crawley-based Danos Athanasi have a focus on the corporate side of the sector, advising on such work as brand sales, restructuring and buy back schemes.

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