Senior role for leading author and lawyer
ONE OF Yorkshire’s best known lawyers has taken on a senior role at Lupton Fawcett, the Leeds, Sheffield and York-based commercial law firm.
Clive Lawrence has been promoted to the role of director at Lupton Fawcett. He will head the firm’s newly amalgamated intellectual property and commercial department.
Mr Lawrence is an international authority in the fields of intellectual property, sports law and media law. He has written books about sports business, and the creation, exploitation and protection of brands. In 2001 he was voted Young Yorkshire Lawyer of the Year.
Mr Lawrence has worked at Lupton Fawcett for the last two years as a consultant.
The firm also announced that senior associate Ben Clay, the former in-house Counsel at the UK’s largest dairy company Arla Foods, has returned to Lupton Fawcett.
Richard Marshall, the firm’s managing director, said: “Clive and Ben are a tremendous addition to our intellectual property and commercial team. Alongside John Sykes, both make a formidable team and provide top drawer advice to our clients and achieve good commercial outcomes for them.
“All are highly skilled and experienced individuals who will be able to meet the growing needs of our clients in this uncertain business environment.
“With the amalgamation of our commercial law department into our Intellectual Property department and these new appointments, we have an exceptional pool of talent and wealth of knowledge only a few of the other larger law firms in the region can rival, and that can only benefit our clients.”
Lupton Fawcett employs 280 staff, including around 145 executives.
The firm has enjoyed significant growth by acquisition in recent years.
We have an exceptional pool of talent and wealth of knowledge. Richard Marshall, managing director of Lupton Fawcett.