Oliver has over 20 years’ experience settling disputes involving a wide range of commercial and intellectual property matters.He specialises in company and financial services disputes as well as trademark, copyright and libel claims. Oliver acts for both UK and international companies and has particular experience advising Russian entities.
Expertise
- Emergency urgent injunctions including freezing of assets and search and seizure of evidence
- Intellectual Property disputes (trademarks, passing off, copyright, design rights, patents)
- Online retailing disputes, anti-counterfeiting strategies
- Cybersquatting and domain name disputes including the Uniform Domain-Name Dispute-Resolution Policy (UDRP)
- Data theft claims against ex-employees going to a competitor or setting up a competing business
- Online defamation, privacy and brand protection claims libel, slander, malicious falsehood, right to privacy, confidential information, data rights and trade secrets)
- “Norwich Pharmacal” Disclosure Orders against ISPs to identify anonymous online publishers
- Company, director and shareholder disputes
- Contract, fraud and breach of fiduciary duty claims
- Hostile takeovers and proxy battles for listed companies
- Financial Services disputes – insider dealing, market abuse, mis-selling
- Media sector disputes involving print and online publishers (book publishers, newspapers, magazines, blogs, email newsletters and review websites)
Experience
- Acting for active investor in shareholder proxy battle over a listed dot com company
- Advising leading stockbroker in £300m certificate of deposit fraud
- Defending director and fiduciary duties claim by a £500m investment fund
- Bringing libel claim for leading FTSE 250 inter-dealer broker against a solicitors’ firm
- Successfully defending Private Eye magazine in the longest running UK libel claim
- Obtaining a “super-injunction” to protect the privacy of a successful sportsman
- Successfully defending a trade mark claim by one of the world’s largest retailers and obtaining record costs award in the Trade Marks Registry
- Winning a landmark reported copyright case for joint authorship of the song “Young at Heart” by The Bluebells used in a VW TV advertisement
Please note: The experience list above may include examples of work completed prior to joining Keystone Law.
Career
Oliver qualified as a solicitor in 1993. Prior to joining Keystone Law in 2011, he worked at the following firms:
- Michael Simkins
- Rosenblatt
- Davenport Lyons