What we do
We work on the things you cannot hold.
Most of what a modern business is worth cannot be picked up, which is exactly why it is so often left unprotected, unproved and uncounted. We protect it, we prove it, and we put a figure on it.
Most people come at this from one side.
We come at it from both.
Protected, proved, and quantified.
Clients rarely arrive with a tidy legal question. They arrive with a situation: someone is selling fakes, a former director has taken the client list, an investor has asked who owns the code and nobody is certain of the answer.
Those situations do not respect practice-area boundaries, so neither do we. You bring the problem. We work out what it actually is, what it is attached to, and what it will cost to resolve. And then we resolve it.
Intellectual property
Brands and trade marks
Names, logos, products, and the people copying them.
Filing and opposition, anti-counterfeiting, test purchases, covert filings, domain recovery, monitoring.
Everything we do here › ContentContent and copyright
Work that is being distributed, scraped or trained on without you.
Piracy, republication, AI training rights, ownership of commissioned work.
Everything we do here › PatentsPatents and inventions
The right you earn by publishing how it works.
Products, processes, devices, formulations and methods. Filing and prosecution, freedom to operate, ownership, enforcement, renewals.
Everything we do here ›And alongside it
Technology
Who owns what was built, and what happens when it goes wrong.
Code ownership, open source risk, data protection, breach response, platform terms.
Everything we do here › 02Commercial and corporate
Agreements, the people who signed them, and the fallings out.
Contracts, shareholder and founder disputes, covenants, diligence, debt recovery.
Everything we do here › 03Finance, crypto and asset recovery
Money that has gone, and money about to.
Asset tracing, fraud and cryptoasset recovery, freezing relief, counterparty checks.
Everything we do here › 04Corporate immigration
Building a business here, and bringing people with you.
Sponsor licences, founder and innovator routes, skilled worker hiring, settlement.
Everything we do here ›Why firms call us
A significant part of our work arrives by referral, where a firm has the legal position covered and needs the investigative and commercial layer to sit alongside it. Knowing what a right is worth, who is actually behind an account, or where stock is genuinely coming from is a different discipline from advising on the law, and it is the one we were built around.
Those instructions are handled discreetly and on preferential terms. More for law firms ›
How we are set up
We advise, investigate and act across everything above. A small number of activities are reserved by statute, conducting litigation, rights of audience, and certain regulated immigration work among them. Where a matter reaches that point, we deliver it alongside regulated partners, and we tell you before it becomes relevant rather than after.
Nothing on this page is advice, and nothing becomes advice until terms are agreed in writing.
Insights
Reading on the problems that do not fit a category
- A coordinated attack on your reputation: reading it before answering it
- A demand backed by a threat: the first response decides the rest
- A judgment is worth only the place where it can be enforced
- Acting against a person you cannot yet name
- An insider has taken your confidential information: what the first hours decide
- Information taken by a leaver: what actually left, and what it is still worth
- Keeping a matter quiet: what actually leaks, and what does not
- Someone trading as your business: reading the impersonation before answering it
Not sure which of these you need? Most people are not.
Describe the situation and we will tell you what it actually is, what it is attached to, and whether it is worth acting on at all.
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