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Keystone Law Offices
48 CHANCERY LANE
LONDON
WC2A 1JF
England
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Paul Renney
Work Department
IP, technology and media.
Position
Paul is a commercial lawyer who advises on the acquisition, protection and exploitation of intellectual property rights. He specialises in advising media clients and those owning rights looking for protection, and how to exploit such rights. Paul’s areas of expertise include advertising, brand promotion, data protection, digital media, film and television, horseracing, publishing, sponsorship, sports, theatre and musical productions. Paul’s key achievements include advising British Horseracing Board Limited: commercial, sponsorship, data and betting arrangements; producers of The Lord of the Rings musical; Celador: sale of ‘Who Wants To Be A Millionaire’; The King’s Speech: advice on initial film option agreement and subsequent screenplay writer’s agreements; Tolkien & Lewis: rights, finance and production agreements relating to film about Tolkien and CS Lewis; Sir Malcolm Arnold and a beneficiary of the estate on music publishing matters; Fox Silver on protecting rights in F1 trophies; Motion Picture House on The Hike and Ghosted films, production, finance and rights agreements and on a ‘live’ music tv programme; Newsflare on set-up and commercial arrangements; Cass Art on commercial agreements.
Career
Trained Farrer & Co, qualified 1987. Partner, Addleshaw Goddard, 1988-2007;Campbell Hooper, 2007-09; Keystone Law, 2009.
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