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Lewis Silkin Offices

Lewis Silkin
Arbor
255 Blackfriars Rd
LONDON
SE1 9AX
England
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Giles Crown

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020 7074 8090 giles.crown@lewissilkin.com View profile

Work Department

Dispute Resolution

Position

Joint Managing Partner, heading up the part of the firm focussed on creative, innovative and brand-centric businesses. Specialises in advisory and dispute advice involving intellectual property, defamation/reputation management, privacy/data protection and consumer/regulatory work mainly in relation to brand protection/enforcement, advertising/marketing and media/online issues. Clients include brand owners, marcomms agencies and media companies.

Career

Trained Blackstone Chambers; called to Bar 1995; barrister 1 Brick Court 1995-2000; head of legal, TBWA UK Group 2000-01; senior communications lawyer, Lewis Silkin 2001-03; qualified 2003; Partner, Lewis Silkin 2003 became Head of Department in 2008, Divisional Managing Partner in 2016 and Joint Managing Partner in 2019; Co-opted member of Membership Board of The Law Society 2017-19. Became trustee of Internet Watch Foundation in 2019.

Publications: ‘Advertising Law and Regulation’ (Butterworths 2000, 2nd edition 2011).

Giles is a CEDR Accredited Mediator and has Higher Courts Rights of Audience.

Memberships

Bar Council; Law Society; Law Society’s Membership Board; Advertising Lawyers Group; Branded Content Marketing Association; British Brands Group.

Education

St Paul’s School, Barnes; Jesus College, Cambridge (1990 BA); UCL (1991 LLM).

Leisure

Running, cycling, theatre, chess.

Lawyer Rankings

London > TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Intellectual property: trade marks, copyright and design

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Giles Crown – Lewis Silkin

Praised as ‘super efficient’ and ‘proactive’, Lewis Silkin’s broad IP offering covers a wide array of matters, extending from various disputes and portfolio management to regulatory work. Thomas Gaunt leads the practice, which routinely handles matters in the retail, technology, media and entertainment, and manufacturing and engineering sectors. Adam Glass’s capabilities include music and literary copyright disputes for various advertising and media clients. Giles Crown strengthens the practice with his specialist expertise in brand protection and enforcement work, with Simon Chapman contributing his extensive litigation experience. Neil Parkes regularly instructs media rights owners, and Nick Bowie is at the forefront of the firm’s trade mark portfolio practice.

London > TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Reputation management

The reputation management team at Lewis Silkin covers all aspects of media law, including defamation, privacy, malicious falsehood, data protection and harassment, on behalf of both claimants and defendants. Sensitive and high-profile employment investigations are another area of expertise. Adam Glass handles crisis management for prominent publishers, as well as advising on a range of complex pre-publication issues. Managing partner Giles Crown has previous experience as a media barrister and is well placed to act on defamation, privacy and data protection matters.

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