Paul Renney > Keystone Law > London, England > Lawyer Profile

Paul Renney

020 7152 6550 [email protected]

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.