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About
Provided by Giles Crown
Practice Areas
Partner, heading up the part of the firm focussed on creative, innovative and brand-centric businesses. Specialises in advisory and dispute advice involving intellectual property, defamation/reputation management, privacy/data protection and consumer/regulatory work mainly in relation to brand protection/enforcement, advertising/marketing and media/online issues. Clients include brand owners, marcomms agencies and media companies.
Career
Barrister, Chambers of Richard Rampton KC, 1 Brick Court 1995-00; Head of Legal and Business Affairs, TBWA UK Group, 2000-01; Trustee Westminster Citizens Advice Bureau 2001-08; Partner, Lewis Silkin 2003 became Head of Department in 2008, Divisional Managing Partner in 2016 and Joint Managing Partner in 2019; Co-opted member of Membership Board of The Law Society 2017-19. Became trustee of Internet Watch Foundation in 2019.
Giles is a CEDR Accredited Mediator and has Higher Courts Rights of Audience.
Professional Memberships
Advertising Lawyers Group, Branded Content Marketing Association, British Brands Group, CEDR accredited mediator, Solicitor advocate.
Publications
'Advertising Law and Regulation', 1st Edition (Butterworths, 1998), 2nd Edition (Bloomsbury Professional, 2011).
Personal
St Paul's School, Barnes, Jesus College, Cambridge and University College, London. Running, drawing, inventing, spending time with wife and children.
Chambers Review
UK
Giles Crown advises on all facets of brand protection and is one of the most sought-after advertising litigators.
Giles Crown is entrusted by household-name brands to litigate in defence of their trade marks and advise on rights strategy. His impressive client list includes top football clubs, engineering companies, retailers and network providers.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Giles consistently provides pragmatic, technically sound and analytical advice and has a reassuring, calm manner which is a great asset when trying to resolve complex disputes."
"Giles is incredibly experienced and works well in difficult situations."
"Giles is terrific."
"Giles consistently provides pragmatic, technically sound and analytical advice and has a reassuring, calm manner which is a great asset when trying to resolve complex disputes."
"Giles is incredibly experienced and works well in difficult situations."
"Giles is terrific."
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