Stephen Sidkin > Fox Williams LLP > London, England > Lawyer Profile

Stephen Sidkin

020 7614 2505 slsidkin@foxwilliams.com

Work Department

Commerce and technology.

Position

Head of commerce and technology department specialising in agency and distributorship agreements, commercial agreements, licensing, retail and education franchising, intellectual property and competition law. Chair of the Fashion Law Group.

Career

Articled Fitzhugh Eggar and Port, Brighton 1979-81; qualified 1981; Norton Rose 1981; Herbert Oppenheimer, Nathan & Vandyk 1984, associate partner 1988; partner elect Denton Hall Burgin & Warrens 1989; founder partner Fox Williams 1989 to date; partner responsible for firm’s marketing 1989-2001; Oppenheimers’, Denton Hall Burgin & Warrens’, and Fox Williams’ liaison officer for City of London Law Society 1988-97; publications: author ‘Product Tampering in the United Kingdom’ (Graham & Trotman, 1993); ‘The General Product Safety Regulations’ (Graham & Trotman, 1996); co-author UK chapter ‘Kulwer’s Commercial Agency and Distribution Agreements’ (2000 3rd); author of UK chapter in ‘Handbuch Moderecht’ (Erich, Schmidt, Verlag 2011); UK author of ‘International Agency and Distributorship Agreements’ (Lexis Nexis 2011); writer of articles, material and book reviews on commercial law which have appeared in national, legal and industry press; regular radio (local and national) and television commentator on commercial law matters; broadcast on ‘Product Safety’ (November 1994) and ‘The Commercial Agents Regulations’ (March 1995, March 1997, April 1998, October 1998, August 2000 and July 2001) on Legal Network Television; attended AIJA annual congress 1991-2001; speaker at the working sessions of the Contract Law Commission at the annual congresses of UIA since 2002

Memberships

Law Society, Competition Section; Contract Law, Law Firm Management, EU Law and Fashion Law Commissions of the Union Internationale des Advocats (UIA); admitted to the Freedom of the Worshipful Company of Solicitors of the City of London 1987 and liveryman 1998; elected member of The Chartered Institute of Marketing 1996; member of the City of London Law Society Commercial Law Committee since 1987; chairman 1995-99 and deputy chairman 2006 to date; member of the Consumer Law Working Party, Law Society 1995-1999; president of the Contract Law Commission of the UIA 2007-2012; co-director of communications UIA since 2012; Council of the Belgian-Luxembourg Chamber of Commerce in Great Britain 2001-05; editorial board of e-commerce Law Reports since 2001.

Education

Westcliff High School for Boys; King’s College, London (1978 Law Hons); London Guildhall University (1984 MA Business Law); solicitor of the Senior Courts of England and Wales (1981).

Leisure

Travel, brand marketing, boating, collecting political cartoons.