Paul Maclennan
Paul is a solicitor and Partner at Anderson Law LLP. Paul joined the firm in 2005.
Paul advises on a wide variety of commercial agreements focussing on transactional work within the IT, life sciences and university sectors. His clients include a number of leading UK universities and an international IT/telecoms company.
Significant matters on which Paul has recently advised include:
- Advising a UK university on the terms of a multi-million pound research funding agreement from a US charitable foundation;
- Negotiating multiple collaboration agreements for an international, multi-centre clinical study into Huntington's disease;
- Negotiating a number of major software licence agreements with overseas companies;
- Advising a computer games company on international licensing agreements;
- Advising an IT client as to the effects of incorporating certain open source code in their software products.
- Advising a UK university on a number of projects funded by the European Space Agency.
Paul has attended negotiations on behalf of his clients in both the UK and in Europe and was the author of the intellectual property chapter of Anderson Law's publication, Drafting Agreements in the Biotechnology and Pharmaceutical Industries (Oxford University Press, 2009) and a contributor to Technology Transfer (3rd Ed, Bloomsbury, 2010). See our books for more information
Paul speaks regularly on intellectual property and commercial law topics for a number of conference organisers. For details of our upcoming talks, please see our forthcoming training.
Paul holds a degree in Computer Science with Law, a diploma in Intellectual Property Law and Practice and prior to qualification as a solicitor, gained experience of working in the software industry both as a programmer, and in customer liaison roles.