Philip Hannay

Biography

Philip Hannay is an award-winning corporate lawyer with considerable personal, legal and business experience relating to the creative industries. Philip runs his own Glasgow based law firm, Cloch Solicitors, and has been advising businesses in the creative industries throughout the UK and beyond on the identification, protection, exploitation, management and valuation of their intellectual property rights and a range of other commercial issues since 2001.

Philip was involved in a number of artistic projects during the 1990s, and prior to entering the legal profession gleaned cultural and creative industry experience in America through work with the New York Department of Parks & Recreation and the non-for-profit Gen Art arts and entertainment organisation which showcased emerging fashion designers, filmmakers, musicians and visual artists.

Philip has personal experience of setting up and managing businesses within the creative industries and is closing in on a decade as Honorary Secretary of Friends of Glasgow School of Art. Philip also tutors in Company Law at the University of Glasgow School of Law and is an Associate Lecturer in Intellectual Property at Aberdeen’s Robert Gordon University Business School MBA programme.

Expertise

• Starting up: commencing business and forming a company or partnership
• Intellectual property advice: managing creativity and its legal protection
• Licensing: gaining and granting permission and use of artistic works
• Contracting: making money from products and services
• Compliance: rights and obligations of stakeholders and those in positions of authority
• Dispute resolution: risk management, enforcement, planning for settlement
• Transactional: business investment, asset sale or purchase, fundraising
• Succession: entering and leaving a going concern

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