Lovells Corporate - Services - Intellectual Property - Intellectual Property Transactions

We advise a major "Harry Potter" licensee on worldwide licensing issues;
We advise the Royal Mail on its significant and often high profile licensing work;
We are assisting a leading telecoms provider on a patent licensing strategy for Europe and Asia;
We advised a major financial institution with numerous subsidiaries world wide on its rationalisation of intra-group trade mark licensing;
We acted in relation to the divestment by a major German engine company of its service and spare parts business to a Finnish company;
We are acting on the London listing of a global pharmaceutical company and associated key European mergers and acquisitions work;
We acted on the disposal by Viatris of its global assets (patents, know-how, regulatory filings) for the epilepsy drug Retigabine;
We advised EADS Astrium on the intellectual property aspects of the design and build and maintenance contracts of a £2.5 billion Skynet 5 private finance initiative with the UK Ministry of Defence.
We advised Umbro - the global football brand - on intellectual property issues relating to their recent public offering and refinancing;
We advised Hg Capital on the rights issues arising out of the acquisition of Boosey & Hawkes, the largest independent classical music catalogue in the world, and its subsequent acquisition;
We advised Granada on all intellectual property aspects of its merger with Carlton Communications to form ITV plc.

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