the intangible, quantified.

The firm other firms call when they get stuck.

One problem in. Everything handled.

Legal, strategic and investigative work for the hard, sensitive, high-stakes problems that do not fit a standard box. We say little. We solve a lot.

Check your Brand IQ What we do
Fashion and beauty Tech and platforms Music and entertainment Sport Food and drink Marketplaces Media and publishing Creators and founders
Built for

Most of what reaches us has been somewhere else first.

By the time a problem gets to us, it is rarely simple. That is the point.

01

Global luxury and fashion houses

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International and sovereign-scale clients

03

Founders, investors and law firms

04

Top-tier legal background

The complex, the sensitive and the high-stakes, handled quietly and properly. Names on request.

What we do

One door. Five disciplines.

Core 01

Intellectual property and brands

Trade marks, copycats, infringer identification, disputes and enforcement. Explore →

02

Technology

Platforms, products and the contracts and risk underneath them. Explore →

03

Commercial and corporate

Deals, structures and the agreements that hold a business together. Explore →

04

Finance, crypto and digital assets

Tracing, recovery and structure where value moves fast and quietly. Explore →

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Corporate immigration

Sponsor licences and moving talent, with regulated partners. Explore →

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Anything else

If it does not fit a box, it is probably exactly our kind of problem. Talk to us →

Useful before you ever call us

Twelve tools. Real answers.

Each one is honest about what it can and cannot tell you. No score is a substitute for advice, but every one is a head start. Four to start with, and eight more alongside them.

IQ

Brand IQ scorecard

Nine questions. A score out of 100, by pillar, with what to fix first.

Start →

IP gap audit

Seven questions. A plain-English list of the gaps in your protection.

Start →

Trade mark checker

A name and a sector. A quick read on distinctiveness, honestly caveated.

Start →

Sponsor licence check

Five questions on UK sponsor-licence eligibility, with flagged areas.

Start →
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Unusual people. Unfair advantage.

We start where others stop

The cases that reach us have usually been declared too hard, too sensitive, or too strange. We treat that as the brief, not the obstacle.

Quiet by design

We work in the background and hand the result back. The credit, and the relationship, stays with you. Loud about the work, silent about the operator.

The IQ Model
the intangible, quantified.

IQ isn't just what we have. It's what we offer.

01

Create

Build the asset properly from the start.

02

Protect

Lock it down before someone tests it.

03

Resolve

Handle the conflict, quietly and properly.

04

Structure

Arrange it so value holds and moves cleanly.

05

Unlock

Turn the intangible into something realised.

In your words, not ours

Built for the people who built it.

"Someone is copying us" "We need to know who is behind this" "A competitor is moving in on our space" "Do we actually own our IP?" "This can't get out" "We don't know where to start"
For law firms

The specialist you bring in when it gets hard.

We work in the background, make you look good, and hand the result back. No conflict. Your client stays yours.

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Confidential, no obligation, and your client stays yours.

Works quietly in the background
Makes you look good to your client
Hands the result straight back to you
No conflict, your client stays yours
See the discreet specialist work →
We had three firms on it and no answers. brandleys found who was behind it in a fortnight, and nobody ever knew we had asked.

General Counsel, global fashion house. Name on request.

Insights

Plain answers to hard problems.

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Enforcement

Someone is selling fakes of my product, what now?

The first five moves, in order, before you tip anyone off.

Ownership

Do you actually own your IP?

The gap most founders only find at due diligence, and how to close it.

Investigations

How do you find out who is really behind an anonymous seller?

What is possible, what is lawful, and where to draw the line.

One problem in. Everything handled.

Tell us what is going on. We will tell you, plainly, whether and how we can help. Confidential from the first message.

Let's talk →
Say hello
hello@brandleys.com
Find us

Kemp House, 160 City Road,
London EC1V 2NX