Jo Alderson
Legal Director
Jo is an intellectual property specialist. She advises on the creation, protection, commercialisation and enforcement of all aspects of intellectual property, including patents, copyright, trade marks, design rights and confidential information.
Jo's experience
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Advised Coventry City Council on their collaboration with a number of strategic partners across the West Midlands to bring together the latest innovations in the automotive sector and to apply them to the light rail sector to create an affordable tram system utilising very light rail technologies, that is capable of being successfully deployed in Coventry and across the wider region.
- United Kingdom
- Government and public sector
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Advised key private equity client Livingbridge on its investment in Welltel (Ireland) Limited, a rapidly growing communications company and one of Ireland’s leading providers of innovative phone system and connectivity solutions to businesses, including Voice over IP/IP telephony (VoiP) technology.
- United Kingdom and Ireland
- Financial Services
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Advised the Sellers on their sale of Envitia Group plc to Maven Capital Partners for a value in excess of £16 million. Envitia Group plc is a global software and solutions group specialising in geolocation technology and improving data quality through a range of Machine Learning tools developed by the business.
- £16m
- United Kingdom
- Technology, Science & Industry
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Advised Sage on its $23 million minority investment in Brightpearl Limited. The investment comprises a mixture of new shares and acquisition from existing shareholders in which other key investors also participated adding an additional $10 million. The investment makes Sage one of the key investors in Brightpearl and dovetails with a strategic partnership agreement between Sage and Brightpearl to invest in and develop cloud based retail software applications with particular focus on the US market.
- $33m
- Cross-border
- Technology, Science & Industry
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Advised Capita on the intellectual property aspects of its investments in a number of technology scale-ups, including Dragonfly Technology Solutions, an early stage business disrupting how content is seen.
- United Kingdom
- Technology, Science & Industry
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Advised Halfords Group, a retailer of Automotive, Cycling and Leisure products, on the proposed administration and potential acquisition of the assets of Tyres on the Drive. This included advice on the acquisition of the relevant intellectual property assets from the administrators, enabling Halfords to develop its online mobile delivery and fitting offering through the existing platform.
- United KIngdom
- Technology, Science & Industry
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Advised a technology company on the intellectual property aspects of its acquisition of the fibre optics innovation company Fotech Solutions.
- United Kingdom
- Energy & Natural Resources
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Advised a Russian public sector client on the interpretation and renegotiation of a software development, exploitation and licence agreement relating to a mobile operating system.
- Russia
- Financial Services
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Advised a Russian public sector client on the interpretation and renegotiation of a software development, exploitation and licence agreement relating to a mobile operating system.
- Russian Federation
- Financial Services
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Advised a major car manufacturer on the intellectual property and data commercialisation aspects of an innovative new electricity “vehicle to grid” project with a major energy company, which involved the development of electric car charging infrastructure, technology and mobile applications to charge electric cars and "sell stored electricity back" to the grid.
- United Kingdom
Credentials
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2016Smith & Nephew - Secondment
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2011University of Oxford - Intellectual Property Law and Practice (Post-graduate Diploma)
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2008Hammonds (f. Squire Patton Boggs) - Lawyer
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2006Qualified - England and Wales
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2004Manchester Metropolitan University - LPC
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2002University of Manchester - LL.B. Law
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