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Jeremy Summers

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Work Department

Media & Entertainment

Position

Jeremy is a consultant within Lewis Silkin’s Media & Entertainment team. He has wide-ranging IP expertise on both contentious and non-contentious matters across a number of sectors, with a particular focus on sports, music, sponsorship, theatre, major events and computer games. His experience includes working in-house on the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games, acting for a sponsor of a leading Formula 1 team, and advising on all legal matters relating to a globally-renowned hit Australian musical. Over the course of his more than twenty-year career, he has advised on more than US$1bn in sponsorship deals for some of the world’s most renowned brands and organisations. Jeremy sits on the steering committee of the Henley Business School MBA for Music and the Creative Industries. Jeremy is dual qualified in New South Wales, Australia and England and Wales.

Career

Trained Simpson Curtis, qualified 1993; solicitor, IP, Pinsent Curtis 1993-96; manager, IP, Garretts (then Andersen Legal), Sydney 1996-99; senior lawyer Sydney Olympic Games organising committee 1999-2000; head of IP, Townleys 2001; founded SK Sport and Entertainment 2002; partner at Lewis Silkin LLP 2014-date.

Education

Lady Manners School, Bakewell; Leeds Polytechnic.