Michael Forrester

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Michael heads Brandsmiths’ Manchester Office and the Litigation Team firm wide. He works with clients across the UK and Internationally, with a wide range of experience across IP, Media, Sport and commercial legal work.

His work has a contentious bias, mainly focusing on complex litigation problems or important deals for clients such as Microsoft, Iconix Brand Group (Umbro, Lee Cooper, Starter), Missguided, and Beagle Orthopaedic, other fast growth companies and startups. He believes clients should be given clear, pragmatic advice: answers first, backed up by applied legal principles.

Michael is regularly instructed on business-critical issues, with particular experience of injunctive proceedings before the IP and Commercial lists of the High Court. He has been listed in the leading legal directories since 2016 as providing “clear, direct and commercial advice” which is “tactically astute’ and being “tenacious” where necessary.

Overall, the Manchester office is said to be “very modern, friendly and approachable with an excellent understanding of the commercial realities of its clients”.