Retail

Our retail team cover the full retail industry including; Fashion & Luxury Goods, Health, Beauty, Cosmetics & Personal Care and Food & Drink, as well as Payment Processors and Finance Providers. As such, we have a deep understanding of the sector and represent some of the UK’s leading brands.

Our top rated team enjoy a strong reputation in the industry and over the years we have advised a wealth of different types of retailers, from boutique and speciality stores through to supermarkets, as well as traditional bricks and mortar retailers, mail-order and catalogue companies, omnichannel, online and mobile retailers. We operate across a vast number of territories, and a number of different technologies and tools at the heart of the retail industry such as in-store, online and mobile payments and store operations software solutions. Rather fittingly we have been known to indulge in a bit of retail therapy ourselves…

Some of our recent work includes:

• Franchised and licensed use of retail store names in the middle east
• Clearance searches for new department store to be launched in the UK with own-brand products
• Due diligence to support the proposed acquisition of balsamic vinegar business with proposed brand extension by acquiring entity
• Anti-counterfeiting: recordal of rights of high end fashion brand with multiple customs authorities and managing destruction of seizures made of counterfeits seized
• Contentious design matter relating to the design of a clothes hanger
• Patent and design aspects of disposable food packaging

Our Retail clients include:

• Jimmy Choo
• Paul Smith
• Estee Lauder
• Primark
• Orlebar Brown
• Radley
• Associated British Foods: with brands including Blue Dragon, Jordans, Kingsmill, Ovaltine , Ryvita, Silver Spoon, Sunblest, Twinings and Patak’s
• Worldpay
• Close Brother Group
• Island Pacific

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