People | Andy Millmore

Andy is a Partner, and is the Head of the Litigation Practice.

He graduated in law from Cambridge University in 1982 and qualified as a solicitor in 1985 with Macfarlanes, where he became a partner in 1990. He was a partner there for ten years, with responsibility for the firm’s contentious intellectual property practice, and with a workload which specialised in IP (both soft and hard), particularly for clients with media and rights related interests, but which also regularly involved heavyweight commercial litigation and arbitration, often with international elements.

Amongst the disputes on which he has worked during his career are: Tiny Rowland v Dieter Bock, the British and Commonwealth collapse, Zino Davidoff v A&G Imports, Milliken v Walk Off Mats, Dixons v DFS Dorland, Saatchi & Saatchi/M & C Saatchi, Pioneer v Disctronics, Jasper Conran v Glolite/YSL and format protection for Hat Trick Productions and others. Recently, he led the Harbottle & Lewis litigation team in a major commercial dispute involving the Skype software.

After leaving Macfarlanes in 2000, he ran his own boutique firm specialising in dispute resolution strategy, and became a consultant with us exclusively from 2004, before joining Harbottle & Lewis as a Partner in 2007.

Andy is a member of the International Trade Mark Association (and on its Parallel Imports Committee), an Associate Member of the Institute of Trade Mark Attorneys, an accredited mediator, and speaks and writes regularly. He is also Head of the Advertising and Marketing Group, as well as working regularly with our Intellectual Property, Music, Film and Television and Publishing Groups.