Intellectual property, data and commercial
Helping our clients make their rights work for them.
Our clients rely on us to solve their most complex, business-critical IP, data and commercial challenges, wherever they arise.
On major transactions, you need lawyers that can resolve difficult IP, data and commercial issues quickly and globally. We’ve advised on many of the biggest and most IP-heavy deals worldwide – including in M&A, IPOs and re-structurings.
And if you need to assert or defend your rights in court, we can help. We have a leading patent litigation practice across the key jurisdictions of the UK, Germany and the Netherlands. We regularly co-ordinate cases across several countries. We’ve run some of the world’s most high-profile cases, particularly in tech and pharma.
Client successes
Advising AB InBev on its £78.4bn acquisition of SABMiller.
Advising AB InBev on its £78.4bn acquisition of SABMiller, a deal that combined the world’s two largest beer makers, and on the separation and IP aspects of various related business divestments.
Advising in mobile phone patent litigation across eight jurisdictions – known as the ‘smartphone wars’.
Advising Novartis on the sale of its animal health business to Eli Lilly.
Advising Novartis on the sale of its animal health business to Eli Lilly and the contribution of its over-the-counter business into a joint venture with GlaxoSmithKline.
Advising BMS and its partner Ono Pharmaceutical.
Advising BMS and its partner Ono Pharmaceutical on the European aspects of their global patent dispute with Merck across nine jurisdictions relating to BMS’s ground-breaking immunotherapy cancer drug.
Volkswagen on numerous matters, including its $2.6bn co-investment with Ford in autonomous vehicle technology company Argo AI.
Disputes, litigation and arbitration
- Administrative and public law
- Antitrust litigation
- Banking and financial services
- Commercial litigation
- Construction and engineering
- Environment
- Global investigations
- Human rights
- Intellectual property and data
- International arbitration
- Product liability
- Public international law
- Regulatory
- Restructuring and insolvency
- Securities and shareholder litigation
- White-collar defence and corporate crime
Our team
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Dr. Frank-Erich Hufnagel パートナー
Düsseldorf
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Rutger Kleemans パートナー
Amsterdam
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Matthias Koch パートナー
Düsseldorf
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Dr. Andrea Lensing-Kramer パートナー
Düsseldorf
