"It's critical to Gocompare.com that our lawyers are part of the team - understanding our business, available when we need them, delivering the best advice and sharing our commitment to succeeding. That's what we get from Capital Law."

Clients include

• Gocompare.com
• Hydralogica Limited

Our Creative Industries team is made up of lawyers specialising in intellectual property, media law and commercial disputes.

Together, they help harness business potential by protecting brand identity and exploiting opportunities.

The team advises young through to mature businesses across the UK including a number of independent television production companies. A fully bilingual service is available to Welsh-speaking clients.

Specialisms

Snapshot of our experience

• Acting for clients in their new brand launches and rebranding exercises
• Acting for a UK plc in a design rights dispute between two high street retailers
• Helping devise and implement brand protection and defensive strategies, identifying core IP and secondary brands/IP and prioritising protection and defensive action
• Co-operation agreements between patent holders and trademark holders
• Advising on the contractual termination of a licence agreement with an exclusive distributor in the US and Canada
• Advising a syndicate of investors in a proposed £1,000,000 equity investment into a biotechnology business, including IP audit.
• Advising a leading make up brand in respect of trademark protection on their product names and secondary-brand names
• Advising media companies in respect of merchandising agreements for TV characters and series

As a matter of fact……

Head of Media law, Elin Pinnell, used to be Deputy Chief Executive and Solicitor at the trade association for independent television companies in Wales (“TAC”), and a Board Director at an independent television company. She retains key connections with the major broadcasters in the UK and venture capital companies.