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Carolyn has more than 25 years’ experience working in commercial disputes, media, and intellectual property, representing a variety of clients across the entertainment, gaming, retail, and technology sectors. She is also a member of Reed Smith’s Retail & Consumer Goods Group. Carolyn has extensive experience in:
- Commercial litigation
- Intellectual property and media, including trade marks, copyright, breach of confidence, libel, privacy, and advertising. Carolyn’s intellectual property practice includes transactional work, such as rights, IT, and IP contract negotiations, as well as litigation
- Inquiries (in particular within the media industry)
- Social media
- Interim remedies, including worldwide freezing orders and anti-suit injunctions
- Media regulation
- Publishing and broadcasting (television and radio)
Experience
Representative matters
Representative matters
A leading member of the Secretariat for The Dame Janet Smith Review into the activities of Jimmy Savile and Stuart Hall
Acting for Trafigura on an extremely complex multi-party and multi-jurisdiction dispute
Acting for Bauer Media in a wide range of matters
Experience
A leading member of the Secretariat for The Dame Janet Smith Review into the activities of Jimmy Savile and Stuart Hall
Acting for Trafigura on an extremely complex multi-party and multi-jurisdiction dispute
Acting for Bauer Media in a wide range of matters
Acting on the IP aspects of numerous high profile acquisitions
Acting for a well-known bank in a major comparative advertising and trade mark dispute
Obtained a very unusual mandatory injunction for the Irish broadcaster, RTÉ, to force tapes of a programme to be delivered
Defending a worldwide freezing order resulting from alleged non-payment of monies due pursuant to derivative contracts
Acting for Bunge in respect of a complex multi-jurisdictional FFA dispute
Advising on a worldwide freezing injunction in respect of a sugar financing dispute
Complex brand clearance for the launch of a major new credit card
A wide range of work for national newspapers, magazines and most of the larger broadcasters
Recognitions
Named in the Enable Advocate Role Model List 2025
Ranked in The World Trademark Review (WTR) 1000, 2021-2026
Named “IP Star” by Managing Intellectual Property, 2020-2026
Credentials
Education
Education
- University of Wales, College of Cardiff
Professional admissions & qualifications
Professional admissions & qualifications
- England and Wales
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