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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Client satisfaction

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