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Keystone Law Offices
48 CHANCERY LANE
LONDON
WC2A 1JF
England
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Nicholas Tall
Work Department
IT and telecoms.
Position
Nicholas is a highly experienced commercial lawyer with particular expertise in rights acquisition and exploitation, IT agreements and general commercial contracts such as agency, distribution and supply contracts. He regularly advises on gambling law issues. Prior to joining Keystone, he was a partner at Speechly Bircham LLP and has previous in-house experience at Gullane Entertainment and the publisher De Agostini. Nicholas is a regular contributor to a number of trade journals and frequently speaks at conferences. Nicholas read law at Oxford University. Nicholas s areas of expertise are media and entertainment; IP (including sponsorship and other forms of exploitation); IT/outsourcing; general commercial contracts (including agency, distribution, supply and logistics); e-commerce; gambling/prize competitions/free prize draws; due diligence and consumer law. Nicholas s key achievements include (i) advising formerly AIM-listed rights owning company on all aspects of various television productions (including rights acquisition, contributors and co-production arrangements), broadcast arrangements, brand management and ancillary rights exploitation programmes, including international licensing and publishing (including e-books) programmes, together with international trade mark filing strategy; (ii) advising on a number of rights acquisition transactions, including full due diligence on complex underlying rights position and exploitation arrangements; (iii) advising international publishing company on variety of publishing arrangements, together with copyright and licensing advice for covermounts, including liaising with foreign lawyers; (iv) advising luxury brands group in respect of co-marketing agreement with major department store and its sponsorship of major golf tournament; (v) advising French costume manufacturer in relation to royalty dispute and licence renewals in respect of Spiderman films; (vi) advising Apple application developer in respect of co-development and co-publishing arrangements, including with major publishers and US rights owners; (vii) advising theatre company in respect of interpolated rights pertaining to well known songwriter; (viii) advising a UK leading greeting cards company on print on demand and licensing and distribution arrangements in general.
Career
Trained Field Fisher Waterhouse, qualified 1999. Gullane Entertainment, 2001-02; De Agostini UK Ltd, 2002-03; Penningtons, 2003-06; Speechly Bircham, 2006-12; Keystone Law, 2013.
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: mid-market
- Finance > Transport finance and leasing
- Employment > Employees/unions
- Insurance > Professional negligence
- Corporate and commercial > International business reorganisations
- Private client > Court of protection
- Private client > Charities and not-for-profit
- 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
- Insurance > Clinical negligence: defendant
- Dispute resolution > Professional discipline
- Insurance > Insurance litigation: for policyholders
- Private client > Agriculture and estates