Michael King > Cleaver Fulton Rankin > Belfast, United Kingdom > Lawyer Profile
Cleaver Fulton Rankin Offices
50 BEDFORD STREET
BELFAST
BT2 7FW
United Kingdom
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Michael King
Work Department
Intellectual Property; Data Protection; GDPR; Cyber Risk; Litigation
Position
Michael King is a commercial litigator with particular expertise in intellectual property and information law. He regularly advises on cases involving freedom of information and data protection issues. Recently he has been working with organisations on the implementation of the General Data Protection Regulation.
Career
Michael trained at Arthur Cox, Belfast, qualifying in 2006. Michael joined Cleaver Fulton Rankin in 2012, becoming a Director in 2016.
Memberships
Michael is a member of Law Society of Northern Ireland. In 2017 he joined the Intellectual Property Lawyers Association as representative for Cleaver Fulton Rankin.
Education
Michael graduated with an LLB from Queen’s University of Belfast in 2002. In 2003 he completed an LLM in International Human Rights Law from QUB, before obtaining a Certificate in Professional Legal Studies in 2006. In 2006, Michael was admitted as Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Judicature in Northern Ireland.
Michael completed a Postgraduate Certificate in Commercial Intellectual Property (Dip CIP) from Nottingham Trent University in 2008 and in 2010 he was admitted as Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Judicature in England & Wales.
In 2012 Michael qualified as a mediator with Queen’s University Belfast and in 2015 he was certified as a practitioner in data protection (PcDp).
Lawyer Rankings
Northern Ireland > TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Intellectual property
(Leading individuals)Cleaver Fulton Rankin‘s IP department includes dedicated teams for contentious and non-contentious matters, and is particularly active on behalf of early stage tech companies. Contentious IP specialist Michael King co-leads the department alongside Paul McBride
, who joined from Davidson McDonnell Solicitors in 2022, and has expertise in non-contentious matters.
Northern Ireland > Dispute resolution
Cleaver Fulton Rankin fields an ‘exceptionally hard-working’ team active across a broad range of industries, including the charity, retail, construction, and financial sectors. Team lead Jeanette Donohoe has expertise in financial services and insolvency litigation. Managing director Jonathan Forrester is a key name for commercial and real estate litigation, while Aaron Moore is noted for his experience of landlord and tenant disputes, dilapidations claims and adverse possession proceedings. Also prominent within the department are Michael King, who covers technology and IP matters, and Patrick Fleming, whose focus is construction and procurement law. Associate director Rachael Gamble covers real estate and commercial litigation, in addition to contentious probate and trusts litigation.
Lawyer Rankings
- Dispute resolution Northern Ireland
- Leading individuals Northern Ireland > TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Intellectual property
- Intellectual property Northern Ireland > TMT (technology, media and telecoms)
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Real estate > Commercial property
- Dispute resolution
- Private client > Personal tax, trusts and probate
Firm Rankings
- Finance > Banking and finance
- Real estate > Construction
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate and M&A
- Employment
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Energy, project finance and PFI
- Finance > Insolvency and corporate recovery
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > IT and telecoms
- Real estate > Planning and environment
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Intellectual property