• Arts & Cultural Property
• Banking & Financial Services
• Charities
• Media & Entertainment
• Property
• Retail & Leisure
  • Fashion
  • Hotels
  • Restaurants
• Technology, digital media and marcoms

The FSI fashion team advise high street names as well as smaller entrepreneurial businesses. The team advise on issues ranging from how best to protect and defend brands and designs to acquiring new businesses and outlets and raising additional funding.

Our services include:

• Business owners and directors through FSI personal
• Corporate, banking and tax
• Real estate
• Franchising and licensing
• Employment
• Intellectual property
• Brand protection
• Commercial litigation
• Business crime and fraud
• Insolvency and business recovery
• IT and software

Recent experience advising:

• Base London in a claim concerning UK and EU alleged design right infringements of various models of shoes
• Beaverbrooks on the acquistion of six new units in Warrington, Leicester, Derby, Doncaster, Cardiff and Cribbs Causeway
• Brooks Brothers on the acquisition of a prime retail site for their flagship store on Regent Street
• L K Bennett on the expansion of their retail operations including three acquisitions in one month in Croydon Centrale, Pavillions Birmingham and Met Quarter Liverpool
• Lloyds Shoes in a trademark dispute with Adidas concerning the classic ‘three stripes’
• Monsoon Accessorize in a claim against Primark for alleged EU design right infringement in various fashion clothing items
• Monsoon Accessorize on the expansion of their retail operations including the recent acquisition of prime retail units in Manchester - the Arndale Centre, Fosse Park, Doncaster - Frenchgate, Monks Cross, Hay’s Galleria, Walton-on-Thames and Middlesbrough
• Kookai when Chloe brought a claim against them for the alleged design right infringement of a certain handbag model
• on a copyright infringement dispute between French fashion retailer Nitya and Windsmoor
• on the acquisition of premises for Cartier at the prestigious Royal Exchange, located in the heart of the City
• Simon Carter Accessories Ltd on a number of new licences including a franchise agreement with Moss Bros to open Simon Carter stores
• Spanish fashion retailer, Desigual, on the acquisition of their first unit in the UK. The premises, on Regent Street, will be their flagship store