Nicola Thatcher > Keystone Law > London, England > Lawyer Profile
Keystone Law Offices
48 CHANCERY LANE
LONDON
WC2A 1JF
England
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Nicola Thatcher
Work Department
Media and entertainment.
Position
Nicola is an experienced media and intellectual property lawyer, who specialises in giving commercial advice to publishing clients on pre-publication issues. She also has extensive litigation experience. Nicola s areas of expertise are defamation (libel and slander), privacy, breach of confidentiality, copyright, trade marks, passing off, contempt of court and litigation. Nicola s key achievements include: (i) extensive experience in providing pre-publication legal reports and clearance to book publishers, magazine publishers, film production companies and broadcasters working directly with authors, editors and producers; (ii) advising major news content provider on a regular basis, giving pre-broadcast clearance from the newsroom, working directly with journalists and editors; (iii) extensive experience in dispute resolution, including applications for injunctions, acting for claimants or defendants, in matters relating to defamation, privacy, infringement of copyright and contempt of Court (numerous cases have been reported); (iv) handling large-scale libel litigation for publishing clients (v) advising specialist media insurers in defamation and IP infringement claims; (vi) representing high profile individuals in libel claims, achieving prompt and successful settlements.
Career
Trained Rubinstein Callingham Polden & Gale, qualified 1992. Manches, 1994-96; Biddle & Co, 1996-2000; Pinsents, 2000-03; Best and Soames, 2006-09; Keystone Law, 2009
Lawyer Rankings
London > TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Reputation management
Keystone Law is instructed by a sizeable and varied client base to handle a range of issues relating to defamation, privacy and reputation management. Gerard Cukier has extensive experience managing high-profile clients’ affairs, as well as acting in defamation, intellectual property and libel cases. Nicola Thatcher is noted for her expertise at the pre-publication stage .
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: mid-market
- Employment > Employees/unions
- Finance > Transport finance and leasing
- Corporate and commercial > International business reorganisations
- Private client > Court of protection
- Private client > Charities and not-for-profit
- Insurance > Professional negligence
- Crime, fraud and licensing > Licensing
- Public sector > Healthcare
- Real estate > Construction: non-contentious
- Real estate > Residential property
Firm Rankings
- Employment > Senior executives
- Crime, fraud and licensing > Gaming and betting
- Finance > Islamic finance
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Media: Film & TV
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Media: Music
- Insurance > Product liability: defendant
- Transport > Travel
- Private client > Art and cultural property
- Transport > Aviation
- Real estate > Commercial property: corporate occupiers
- Private client > Family
- Crime, fraud and licensing > Fraud: civil
- Insurance > Insurance and reinsurance litigation
- Corporate and commercial > M&A: Smaller Deals, £10m-£100m
- Corporate and commercial > Partnership
- Employment > Pensions (non-contentious)
- Insurance > Personal injury: defendant
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Power (including electricity, nuclear and renewables)
- Transport > Shipping
- Finance > Bank lending: investment grade debt and syndicated loans
- Real estate > Construction: contentious
- Employment > Employers
- Employment > Immigration
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Intellectual property: trade marks, copyright and design
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Oil and gas
- Private client > Personal tax, trusts and probate
- Real estate > Planning
- Real estate > Property litigation
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Reputation management
- Corporate and commercial > Venture capital
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Intellectual property: patents (contentious and non-contentious)
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Sport
- Dispute resolution > Professional discipline
- Insurance > Insurance litigation: for policyholders
- Private client > Agriculture and estates
- Insurance > Clinical negligence: defendant