Well-acquainted with the financial services and fintech spaces, and with a large footprint in the automotive industry, the IP team at Shoosmiths LLP also has expertise in the beverage sector, where advertising and transactional lawyer Leigh Smith specialises. Andrew Brennan leads the team, which is sought out for its work in reputation management, defamation, and privacy matters as well as for regulatory advice and litigation expertise. Brennan is joined by litigators Eloise Di Pasqua and Antony Craggs, and trade mark attorney and solicitor Dominic Farnsworth, who focuses on enforcement and brand protection mandates. Dominic Murphy’s practice centres around trade marks and designs, on both the filing and transactional sides.
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Testimonials
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- ‘Leigh Smith is an outstanding lawyer with a high level of knowledge. Extremely service-minded and always complies with tight deadlines.’
- ‘A firm on the way up. They have hired some good people in the last few years, like Antony Craggs.'
Key clients
- AK Retail (Yours Clothing)
- Reliance Brands
Practice head
Andrew Brennan
Other key lawyers
Leigh Smith; Eloise Di Pasqua; Dominic Farnsworth; Antony Craggs; Dominic Murphy; Richard Millington; Anisha Thomas; Eloise Ryan; Ellen Hughes-Jones