Maximizing your intellectual property: insights on tax, legal, and economic strategies

Tom Adcock advises a wide range of international clients on structuring their global affairs, frequently using offshore jurisdictions to achieve effective tax and commercial outcomes.

He provides strategic advice on how specific structures operate to deliver both efficiency and compliance and regularly supports individuals and businesses engaging with the UK tax system from around the world. Tom serves as the UK representative on the International Tax Committee of DFK International.

A recognised voice in the field, Tom frequently presents and writes on a wide range of property tax matters.

Starting his career as a Corporate Tax Inspector with HMRC enables him to successfully manage tax enquires into both corporates and individuals; his experience in working on ‘both sides of the fence’ means he maintains an exceptional record in supporting clients with tax investigations.

Ben Miller is a Partner and leader of Bennett Thrasher’s Transfer Pricing practice. He works with clients to design, implement and maintain transfer pricing policies that align strategic business objectives with local and foreign transfer pricing rules and regulations.

Ben’s experience includes evaluating the transfer prices of tangible goods, intangible property, services and loans for various purposes, including penalty protection documentation, planning, international supply chain and debt restructuring, Advance Pricing Agreements, audit defense and due diligence for mergers and acquisitions. His industry experience is broad based, with recent focus in manufacturing and distribution, technology, professional services and real estate.

A partner in Potter Clarkson’s litigation and licensing team, Dave specialises in non-contentious intellectual property law, with experience in significant contentious patent matters. Dave specialises in the biotechnology, synthetic biology and cancer therapeutics sectors, with a major part of his practice focussing on novel therapeutics.

In particular, his practice includes drafting highly complex, multi-jurisdictional agreements including licensing arrangements, research and development agreements and complex collaboration agreements, as well as providing commercially focussed IP strategy advice for his clients.

Esmé has considerable experience in drafting and prosecuting patent applications, as well as preparing patent oppositions and conducting freedom to operate and due diligence investigations related to a wide variety of patents in the chemical and pharmaceutical fields.

She has vast experience in managing and prosecuting global patent portfolios which has seen her handle national and international applications before the European Patent Office (EPO), and other major jurisdictions such as Australia, Canada, China, India, Japan and the US. Esmé particularly enjoys assessing a business’s commercial objectives and their innovation to subsequently formulate IP strategies that closely align the two to ensure their maximum potential and value can be achieved.