Simmons & Simmons

The team at Simmons & Simmons offers a fully comprehensive service to its clients and regularly handles a wide variety of matters in an array of sectors, including IT, software, fashion, design, telecommunications, chemistry, optics, publishing, and retail. Part of the firm’s remit includes both contentious and non-contentious work with significant strengths including copyright protection and enforcement and licensing agreement drafting and negotiation, as well as mediation and litigation. The firm is spearheaded by Sarah Bailey, a dual-qualified English and French lawyer who also heads the firms international cross-border brands team and is a specialist in unfair competition, advertising, and data protection. She is supported by Frédérique Potin, who advises on the IP aspects of acquisitions and corporate restructuring operations. Hélène Choquet is also a key name in the team, which was bolstered by the addition of Abdelaziz Khatab, an IT and IP litigation specialist who leverages his previous experience as an engineer.