International law firm Simmons & Simmons expands its international intellectual property group with the appointment of Mark Heaney who will join the firm as a partner.*
Mark joins the firm’s London office on 14 October from Baker Botts, where he was a partner. He has experience in contentious matters covering a broad range of intellectual property work with a particular focus on patents, confidential information, and copyright and related rights.
Specialising in computers, electronics and telecommunications, he is widely considered amongst clients and peers as a “seasoned patent litigator with a remarkable level of IT and electronics industry knowledge” (IAM Patent 1000, 2014), and a “forceful litigator” who “thoroughly understands IP law, has excellent technical skills and a wonderfully approachable and engaging style.” Legal 500 UK 2015 ‘Leading Individual’ and Chambers & Partners UK 2015.
Commenting on the appointment partner and head of the firm’s dispute resolution group, Hans-Hermann Aldenhoff, commented: “As intellectual property rights and considerations across international jurisdictions increases, Mark’s arrival will add further strength to our intellectual property team across the firm, and the existing offering to our clients and their businesses.”
Partner and intellectual property group head, Marc Döring, continued: “Mark’s experience in both TMT and Life Sciences as two of our five key sector focus areas will be invaluable to our international practice, and to our clients, whose ability and ambitions to expand their businesses and products are, now more than ever, dependent on advice from a recognized, leading firm on intellectual property issues.”
*Subject to standard regulatory approvals.
Source: www.simmons-simmons.com
