Cripps Harries Hall

Kathryn Leslie

Associate

Kathryn Leslie is a solicitor advising on a wide range of commercial contracts with a particular focus on technology and intellectual property related matters. Her clients include investment managers, hosted service providers, data management companies and digital media agencies.

Expertise

  • Commercial agreements
  • Software agreements
  • Service contracts
  • Standard terms/conditions of business
  • Distribution
  • e-commerce
  • Competition
  • Agency
  • Joint ventures
  • Intellectual property

Memberships

  • Association of Partnership Practitioners
  • Society for Computers & Law (London branch)

Career

  • Associate, Cripps Harries Hall LLP, 2011
  • Solicitor, Cripps Harries Hall LLP, 2006
  • Trainee Solicitor, Cripps Harries Hall LLP, 2004
  • Advising the owners of the Pink Lady® brand on a wide range of brand licensing and management issues
  • Advising on the acquisition of a well-known international haircare brand and associated assets
  • Advising an international personal care products company on the prevention of parallel imports
  • Advising in a complex copyright litigation relating to the ownership of rights in published music
  • Advising a technology start-up on open-source licensing and IP ownership issues
  • Advising the University of Kent on a £20m contract for the development of student accommodation
  • Advising an international print and distribution logistics company on a European-wide contract with a leading petrol retailer
  • Advising a specialist manufacturing company on a number of contracts with household-name consumer conglomerates
  • Advising one of the largest fund managers in the UK on a range of procurement contracts for IT and outsourcing
  • Advising a leading provider of student accommodation management services on a facilities management agreement
Legal updates view all
+ Commercial law - Back to Basics - Part 1 - Contracts - April 2012
This is the first in a series of 'Back to Basics' articles looking at contract law and how it applies to your business.
16/04/2012
+ Media & advertising update - Breaching Advertising Guidelines? You're not when you're #spon
A marketing campaign by confectionary giant Mars has been cleared by the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) in its first investigation involving social networking site Twitter.
08/03/2012
+ Media and advertising update - Ofcom changes rules preventing product placement - February 2011
Product placement involves an advertiser paying a broadcaster to have its brand, products, services and/ or trade marks included in a programme. Broadcasters have to adhere to Ofcom's Broadcasting Code, which currently prohibits this form of advertising. However, on 28 February 2011, a new section of the Broadcasting Code will be implemented which will, for the first time, allow product placement in UK-produced programmes. Certain restrictions on product placement will remain in place so that programmes do not become distorted advertising mechanisms and there will be restrictions on different types of products and programmes to which the new
01/02/2011
+ Bribery Act 2010 - What does it mean for Corporate Hospitality - September 2010
The Bribery Act 2010 is intended to bring the UK into line with international best practice for anti-corruption legislation, and replaces the existing patchwork of anti-corruption laws. Its scope is extremely wide-ranging, and this has led to concerns that activities perceived as legitimate - such as corporate hospitality - could become illegal when the Bribery Act comes into force (now expected to take place in April 2011).
 01/09/2010
+ Media and advertising law - New advertising codes - July 2010
In March 2009 the Committee of Advertising Practice (CAP) and the Broadcast Committee of Advertising Practice (BCAP) launched a consultation about a wide-ranging review of the advertising codes. This was the first time that CAP and BCAP had conducted a comprehensive, co-ordinated review of the advertising codes, covering both broadcast and non-broadcast advertisements.
 01/07/2010