LEGAL

Our Mission

  • Our goal is to provide cost-effective legal support, unburdening you from the day-to-day legal workload so you can focus on building your business.
  • We are passionate about supporting your commercial goals – not point scoring or over-lawyering.
  • City trained, but without the soaring and uncertain city fees.
  • We strive to be your trusted advisor, an extension of your team, in a way that works with your budget. We want to see matters through from start to finish and will rattle cages where we need to.

Background – Amy Holt

Amy Holt
  • Amy studied law at Oxford before training at city law firm Hogan Lovells, qualifying into the commercial team. She was seconded to Save the Children UK and then John Lewis / Waitrose, which later turned into a permanent position. Over the next 5 years, Amy advised both retailers on the IP aspects of major marketing campaigns, managed the global trade mark portfolios, negotiated key sponsorship and talent agreements (including the Olympic and Commonwealth Games sponsorship), drafted and negotiated customer and logistics agreements, and led on GDPR and privacy compliance.
  • Amy completed the Financial Times’ Non-Executive Director diploma and has acted as a board advisor for a number of clients. Being a founder with many start / scale ups as clients, Amy is able to provide advice and support through a distinctly entrepreneurial lens.
  • Amy was nominated as Sole Practitioner of the Year in The Lawyer Excellence Awards two years running, was a finalist in the Legal Innovation Awards and was recognised as a Rising Star in the Legal 500’s Powerlist. Holt Baker was shortlisted in the Legal Innovation Awards 2022 and winner Legal & Financial Advisory of the Year 2023 at the Corporate Livewire Innovation & Excellence Awards.

Background – Rob Foote

  • Rob has extensive commercial and litigious experience, having qualified as a solicitor at Walker Morris in 2009. Prior to working with Holt Baker, Rob was Legal Counsel at Johnson Matthey PLC, a FTS100 constituent, and a senior associate at Brandsmiths.
  • With a mix of litigious and commercial work, Rob's specialism includes advising on all aspects of international and domestic commercial arrangements and dispute management, along with handling intellectual property and employment matters. Rob often acts as out-house general counsel for many clients, providing a practical approach in a down-to-earth manner.

HOW CAN WE HELP?

Fractional Legal Counsel / GC

  • Acting as your outsourced, on-demand Legal Counsel / GC – managing your legal risk and load to free you up to run your business.
  • Bolstering your team during critical investment / M&A / pitching phases.

Intellectual Property (IP)

  • Developing strategies to realise and protect IP assets – what are your IP assets, how do you create value in those assets, and how do you reduce the risk of being copied?
  • Exploiting IP rights –negotiating robust licence and assignment agreements.

Data Protection

  • Advising on the impact of GDPR / DPA; including navigating compliance requirements, mitigating data breach risk, and allocating risk in third party contracts.
  • Drafting customer facing privacy policies and collection notices for websites, apps etc.

Contracts

  • Creating and unlocking value for businesses by ensuring the correct contractual terms are in place and avoiding restrictive terms which might impede business’ goals/profitability.
  • Reviewing, drafting and negotiating a wide range of contracts including:
    • shareholder, founder and partnership agreements;
    • template agreements to establish and grow clients’ business including supply of goods and services, manufacturing,  joint venture agreements;
    • licence, assignment, and co-creative agreements to protect and exploit IP; and
    • complex supply chains from product/service creation to end customer / consumer contracts.

Brand protection

  • Sponsorship, endorsement and talent agreements – extracting the most value from brand-related relationships.
  • Advertising / marketing advice to support campaigns and product launches – minimising regulatory and reputational risk.

Property

  • Acting for owners, occupiers, developers and funders of corporate real estate on all aspects of commercial property.
  • Right to light specialists.

Legal services to be provided by A Holt Limited, authorised and regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority, registration number 633334. Finance and accounting services are provided by J E Baker Limited and regulated by the ACCA (which is regulated by the IFAC)

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