Giles Crown

Practice Areas

Partner, heading up the part of the firm focussed on creative, innovative and brand-centric businesses. Specialises in advisory and dispute advice involving intellectual property, defamation/reputation management, privacy/data protection and consumer/regulatory work mainly in relation to brand protection/enforcement, advertising/marketing and media/online issues. Clients include brand owners, marcomms agencies and media companies.

Career

Barrister, Chambers of Richard Rampton KC, 1 Brick Court 1995-00; Head of Legal and Business Affairs, TBWA UK Group, 2000-01; Trustee Westminster Citizens Advice Bureau 2001-08; Partner, Lewis Silkin 2003 became Head of Department in 2008, Divisional Managing Partner in 2016 and Joint Managing Partner in 2019; Co-opted member of Membership Board of The Law Society 2017-19. Became trustee of Internet Watch Foundation in 2019.

Giles is a CEDR Accredited Mediator and has Higher Courts Rights of Audience.

Professional Memberships

Advertising Lawyers Group, Branded Content Marketing Association, British Brands Group, CEDR accredited mediator, Solicitor advocate.

Publications

'Advertising Law and Regulation', 1st Edition (Butterworths, 1998), 2nd Edition (Bloomsbury Professional, 2011).

Personal

St Paul's School, Barnes, Jesus College, Cambridge and University College, London. Running, drawing, inventing, spending time with wife and children.