Advising on the commercialisation and procurement of new tech is at the heart of Withers LLP‘s offering. At the helm of the practice is Richard Penfold, who leads on intellectual property and data protection matters. Kenneth Mullen advises on licensing and commercial tech across the luxury brands, fashion, and sport sectors. Recently promoted Alex Taylor specialises in commercial arrangements involving intellectual property and complex outsourcings.
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- 'We were impressed by the cohesiveness of the Withers team and our ability to get a response when it was clear that they were heavily engaged in other completions, etc. It was very helpful to have experts in areas that we had not expected to need available to the team at almost instant notice.''The clarity of advice given and that they were obviously on top of their particular subjects. Also greatly appreciated that team members made themselves available well out of normal hours/on leave, or ensured we had well-prepared covering colleagues.'
Key clients
- Fluidstack
- Diligent Boardbooks
- Levidian
- Totara Learning
- Kingsway Capital
- Agilio Software
- NEC Laboratories Europe
- AkamisBio
- Early Health
- Automata
- Pepper Advantage
- Aston Martin Racing
Work highlights
Advising Levidian, a leading climate tech business on a number of cross-border commercial matters, including assisting on a suite of framework contractual documents to support the launch of its "decarbonisation as a service" technology to energy sector clients located in the EMEA region.
Advised Diligent, a 'late-stage' software-as-a-service provider.
Advised FluidStack, a provider of AI infrastructure-as-a-service solutions to leading AI providers & developers.
Practice head
Richard Penfold
Other key lawyers
Kenneth Mullen; Alex Taylor; Richard Stebbing; Ali Woodcock-West