Six new partners at Taylor Wessing

Taylor Wessing is pleased to announce the promotion of six new partners in the UK office with effect from 1 May 2006. This brings the number of UK partners to 105 and for Taylor Wessing worldwide a total of 250 partners.

The new partners are:

Taylor Wessing's Managing Partner, Michael Frawley comments:

"We are delighted to welcome our newest partners, all of whom have come from our home-grown talent. Their contribution to developing TW business has been invaluable. These promotions reflect the firm’s strong position in working for technology and other IP-rich businesses, our continuing growth in corporate and finance, and ongoing commitment to entrepreneurs and other high net worth individuals.”

Marjan Noor is head of Regulatory (Life Sciences and Healthcare) at Taylor Wessing, specialising in patent and regulatory law.  She does both litigious and transactional work.  Marjan has a medical/pharmacology background which proves an asset in her specialist area and has a Medicine and Pharmacology Degree from University College London.  On the regulatory side, Marjan acted in the Judicial Review action concerning alendronate (2005). Her recent patent case includes the Angiotech/UBC v Conor Medsystems action relating to drug eluting stents.

Christopher Jeffery works extensively in information technology and intellectual property commercial work, including significant amounts of work for online games providers.  His experience therefore includes a broad range of commercial agreements including both web-based arrangements as well as more traditional IT/software agreements.

Graham Hann advises on all aspects of information technology and intellectual property law with a particular emphasis on technology focused commercial transactions including systems / services supply and outsourcings.  Graham advises widely on software distribution and licensing and also specialises in advising on Internet-related issues as well as privacy and data protection.  He is the co-author of the data protection chapter of Sweet & Maxwell's Practical Commercial Precedents.

Martin Yells has expertise in a broad range of banking and finance work, having acted for borrowers, major banks and financial institutions in the UK and Europe on general corporate finance, project and acquisition finance related matters.

Nicholas Hazell specialises in mainstream corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions, private equity and other general corporate work.  Nick has been involved in transactions for both publicly quoted (both on the official list and AIM) and private companies including venture capital organisations, manufacturing, sport and leisure and entertainment and media companies.

Nicholas Warrspecialises in advising mainly non-UK domiciled individuals and non-resident trustees on international trust and tax planning. Nick also has substantial experience in trust litigation and negotiating settlements with the Special Compliance Office.  Nick's recent cases involve settling a multi jurisdictional litigious trust action and also implementing a number of tax-driven restructuring and reorganisation schemes for non-resident trusts.

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