Rosie Duckworth Partner

Partner

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Rosie advises clients on general commercial matters, intellectual property, data privacy, IT, and consumer protection. She has experience advising in relation to outsourcing, licensing, advertising, branding, technology and other bespoke commercial arrangements.

Rosie’s work covers a broad range of sectors including technology, advertising, media and entertainment, sport, and financial services.

In addition to her stand-alone commercial work, Rosie regularly advises on the commercial, intellectual property and data privacy aspects of corporate transactions, including complex business carve-outs. She is also part of the firm’s media and advertising group and technology group.

Rosie has previously undertaken secondments to one of the UK’s largest media agencies and a global live entertainment and ticketing company.

Expertise

Recent work

arbdn

Advising long-term client arbdn, on the sale of its £7.5bn assets under management European-headquartered Private Equity business to Patria Investments.

Investec

Advising Investec, a leading bank and wealth manager, on an all-share combination of Investec Wealth & Investment Limited and Rathbones Group plc to create the UK’s leading discretionary wealth manager.

Virgin Group

Advising the Virgin Group on an extension to its brand licence arrangements with Australian-based airline Virgin Australia, as part of a new agreement with incoming owner Bain Capital, the US private equity group

A consortium led by Lawrence Stroll

Advising consortium led by Lawrence Stroll on a £500m strategic investment in FTSE250 luxury British sports car manufacturer Aston Martin Lagonda.

Neste Group

Advising Neste Group on IP and commercial arrangements in connection with the disposal of its Russian fuel business.

Banijay Group

Advising Banijay Group on IP and media rights aspects of its high profile acquisition of Endemol Shine.

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In depth

Contract party could not refuse payment in alternative currency and invoke force majeure

Dominic Sedghi, Christopher Charlton , William Hedges, Rosie Duckworth 10 Nov 2022

The Court of Appeal has held that a party to a contract could not invoke a force majeure clause on the basis that payments could not be made in the contract currency, because the...