Melanie McGuirk

Melanie has a strong track record in resolving disputes for clients relating to intellectual property. She has extensive experience of acting for major retailers and clients in the fashion, manufacturing, and creative industries, helping to protect their brands, product designs and commercial know-how, including where they act as master franchisor.

She has specialist expertise in trade libel and reputation management, particularly in relation to the adverse or intrusive media coverage of clients’ business interests or personal lives. Melanie is also an experienced supervising solicitor in search order cases.

Melanie’s work highlights include cases where search and seizure orders were served or defended in multi-million-pound parallel import disputes and a key decision of the European Court of Justice in respect of jurisdictional issues arising from online trade mark infringement.