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Lewis Silkin Offices
Arbor
255 Blackfriars Rd
LONDON
SE1 9AX
England
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Brinsley Dresden
Work Department
Advertising & Marketing
Position
Partner, specialising in advertising and marketing law and regulation, representing both brand owners and marketing services agencies across a broad spectrum of legal and regulatory issues.
Career
Trained Nabarro Nathanson; qualified 1991; three years in-house at BT working full-time on legal and regulatory issues relating to advertising and marketing; joined Lewis Silkin 1996; partner 1999.
Memberships
As well as heading up the firm’s Advertising & Marketing Sector Focus Group, Brinsley is also on the Executive Committee of the Global Advertising Lawyers Alliance (“GALA”), and the sole UK member. Through GALA, he can access the best advertising lawyers worldwide.
Education
King’s College School, Wimbledon; Bristol University (1987 LLB Hons); College of Law, Guildford (1988 Law Society Finals); London University (1999 LLM Intellectual Property).
Leisure
Sailing, skiing.
Lawyer Rankings
London > TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Media: Advertising & marketing
(Hall of Fame)Rated by clients as ‘true leaders in the field‘, the team of ‘smart experts‘ at Lewis Silkin
advises on the full gamut of matters, including adtech vendor agreements, compliance with social media policies, and obtaining pre-clearance for television advertising. The group represents a diverse client base of brand and media owners, trade bodies, and social media platforms. ‘Terrific lawyer‘ Brinsley Dresden
heads the practice alongside the ‘amazing‘ Geraint Lloyd-Taylor. Dresden is ‘very knowledgeable‘ and has vast expertise in the negotiation of celebrity talent contracts and sales promotion campaigns; while Lloyd-Taylor assists numerous advertising agencies and brands with defence against ASA investigations and claims. ‘Superstar‘ Jo Farmer is a ‘terrific negotiator‘ who maintains an IP focused practice, frequently handling content creation issues for voiceover artists and talent.
Lawyer Rankings
- Hall of Fame London > TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Media: Advertising & marketing
- Media: Advertising & marketing London > TMT (technology, media and telecoms)
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Employment > Employers
- Employment > Immigration
- Corporate and commercial > M&A: Smaller Deals, £10m-£100m
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Media: Advertising & marketing
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Media: Theatre, publishing and other media
- Employment > Senior executives
Firm Rankings
- Corporate and commercial > Commercial contracts
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: mid-market
- Real estate > Commercial property: corporate occupiers
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Media: Film & TV
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Media: Music
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Media: Video games
- Corporate and commercial > Partnership
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Sport
- Real estate > Commercial property: development
- Industry focus > Hospitality and leisure
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Intellectual property: trade marks, copyright and design
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > IT and telecoms
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > PATMA: Patent attorneys
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > PATMA: Trade mark attorneys
- Real estate > Property litigation
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Reputation management
- Industry focus > Retail and consumer
- Real estate > Planning
- Risk advisory > Data protection, privacy and cybersecurity
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Intellectual property: patents (contentious and non-contentious)
- Corporate and commercial > Venture capital
- Industry focus > Life sciences and healthcare
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Franchising