Member Profiles

Jonathan has a great deal of experience in the development and management of trade mark portfolios for a broad range of clients. He is also a regular speaker on trade mark issues in various contexts including for INTA, an organization in which he is heavily involved on various fronts. He helps set up and maintain commercially relevant opposition strategies for his clients. Handling oppositions and appeals across many jurisdictions forms a significant part of his practice. He has particular experience in resolving disputes by negotiating commercially practical agreements on behalf of his clients. Jonathan has long-standing relationships with many of his clients. His commercial understanding of their businesses helps him deliver sophisticated and appropriate advice. Clients like his grounded approach and his clear focus on practical and workable solutions. As a result of his work for multinational clients, he is experienced in IP issues across diverse commercial sectors including finance, pharmaceutical, medical, power systems, fashion, retail and tobacco. He is active in many other commercial areas as well, not least due to his extensive collaborations with SMEs. Jonathan has been a contributing author of all three editions of Wolters Kluwer’s Concise European Trademark and Design Law, writing the commentary on about 30 Articles of the EUTMR and the corresponding provisions of the CDR. This book was recently divided into separate volumes for trade marks and designs. He was also the Editor of an international title in The Law Reviews series called The Trademarks Law Review for ints first three editions from 2017-2020 Additional Information Partner 1996 IPReg Board Member 2012-2019 Specialisms Trade marks Portfolio management Contentious matters Negotiations Qualifications MA Classics, Magdalene College, Cambridge Registered Trade Mark Attorney 1992 Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Trade Mark Attorneys 2002

Chris Cooke is Senior Partner of Rooks Rider Solicitors. He is a member of Society of Trust & Estate Practitioners (STEP), plays a high profile role on the International Committee of STEP, sits on the Editorial Board of the English and Welsh law section of the STEP Directories and writes the UK money laundering sections. He is also a member of the Association of Contentious Trust and Probate Specialists (ACTAPS). Chris is highly respected by his peers in the offshore world. He continues to travel abroad extensively, visiting the offshore jurisdictions and speaking at STEP functions. He has been closely involved with the offshore world since 1969 and has dealt with jurisdictions such as, Australia, Anguilla, Antigua, Alderney, Bahamas, Barbados, Belgium, Bermuda, British Virgin Islands, Canada, Cayman, Turks & Caicos, Delaware, Gibraltar, Guernsey, Hong Kong, Isle of Man, Jersey, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Holland, Nebraska, Nevis, New Zealand, Prince Edward Isle, The Cook Islands, The Dutch Antilles, Sark, Singapore and Switzerland. Chris has also advised extensively on HM Revenue & Customs disputes and settlements.

Kathleen Harris is head of the London office and helps steer the firm's Anti-Corruption practice where she represents companies and individuals in a wide range of regulatory/enforcement investigations and the related proceedings. Kathleen is recognised internationally as a leader in her practice area. She represents a FTSE 100 Company in relation to a financial fraud case and another FTSE 100 Company in relation to a global investigation. Her representations include GSK, Hewlett Packard, News UK and individuals in relation to investigations into Barclays, Rolls Royce, and Tesco. She is regularly instructed by companies and individuals in a range of other high-profile criminal matters. Kathleen also provides advice in respect of both compliance and enforcement relating to financial and trade sanctions. Kathleen is a highly respected practitioner in all areas of crime and her pro bono work includes acting for vulnerable individuals within the criminal justice system. In The Legal 500 she is recognised as having a "very keen intellect." Chambers and Partners has recognised her as a leading individual in her field. She is an accomplished litigator with extensive knowledge of and experience in matters involving internal and external investigations and prosecutions under the full range of potential criminal offences and sanctions. Kathleen has broad experience advising government ministers on the development and implementation of policy and fraud strategy, and leading complex overseas enquiries and analyses. Kathleen is a member of the Corporate Governance working group of the firm, and with her experience, clients, Board of Directors, and Special committees regularly rely on her counsel with respect to complex corporate governance issues. She has written articles on the Deferred Prosecution Agreement and UK Bribery Act, as well as newsletters covering the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) and UK Enforcement updates. Before joining the firm, Kathleen served as a Senior Civil Servant Heading the Fraud Business Group and Head of Policy at the Serious Fraud Office (SFO), Senior Strategic Policy Adviser in the Attorney General's Office, and held positions in HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC), The Revenue and Customs Prosecutions Office, and the Department of Works and Pensions in the United Kingdom. Kathleen has led the prosecution of organisations involved in high-profile bribery investigations, complex financial crime, and tax evasion.

Founded in 2004, Lavrynovych & Partners Law Firm provides full range of legal services owing to more than 50 committed professionals located in Ukraine, Austria and the USA. We advise companies from over 30 countries. Nearly half of the Firm’s clients are international companies, including multinational corporations listed in Fortune Global 500. In September, 2015, our firm officially announced opening of the representative office in Vienna, based on the Brandstetter, Baurecht, Pritz & Partners Law Firm. It provides the clients of Lavrynovych & Partners with a special benefit to acquire an expert advice and legal assistance regarding its activities on the territory of the Republic of Austria. Our commitment to internationally recognized professional standards, as well as our efforts in being at the very top of our profession, results in satisfaction of highly valuable clients and external recognition we gain internationally and locally.

Jurinter law firm is one of the first law firms in Ukraine to begin rendering maritime law services after proclamation of independent Ukraine. For the long period of its activity the firm has proved to become a reliable partner and advocate of its clients’ interests both within the national jurisdiction and abroad. Jurinter law firm dealt with numerous major legal cases and claims of Azov Shipping Company, that used to be one of the biggest shipping companies in Ukraine, such as assisting the latter to withdraw their vessels globally from a number of foreign charterers to whom the vessels were bareboat chartered. The firm has been legal adviser of Azov shipyard on the matters concerning their foreign economic activity. Jurinter law firm was the first among Ukrainian law firms jointly with English law firm Lawrence Graham to apply successfully both in English and Ukrainian jurisdictions the provisions of newly adopted Commercial Maritime Code of Ukraine and international conventions relating to limitation of liability and in particular that of the owner of m/v “Alkor” (the vessel capsized at port Kherson with full cargo on board) and succeeded in minimizing the owners’ losses considerably. The company successfully defended in Ukrainian courts the interests of big Russian shipping company Volgotanker in connection with the huge claim of the local ecological authorities against the company due to the oil spill in Mariupol port and managed to prove with the team of best experts employed that neither of the vessels owned by the said company could be considered liable for the spill. The firm represents both in Ukraine and abroad the interests of many other shipping companies in connection with ship arrests, exercising lien over the cargo, collisions, demurrage, crew claims etc. Equally, the firm renders legal services to the charterers, leading insurance companies (Ingosstrakh, Raets Marine etc) and mutual insurance associations, such as British Marine Mutual, West of England, UK PandI Club etc., insurance brokers, forwarding companies, crewing companies and ship agents. The firm has vast experience in settlement of mass fatal and severe injury cases, both local and cross border ones, in connection with ship collisions, sinking, explosions etc. Besides representing owners, charterers, insurance companies in the courts Jurinter legal firm has been representing them also in Maritime Arbitration Commissions of Ukraine and Russia, English arbitration (LMAA), consults on concluding of charter parties, demurrage claims, cargo claims and provides claims handling services taking all possible steps to avoid costly litigation and/or secure the client’s claims, provide expert advice/affidavits on various issues of Ukrainian law within legal proceedings abroad. Deep understanding by the firm’s lawyers of the industry and clients’ needs combined with experience and in-depth knowledge of maritime law and practice, best foreign languages and correspondence skills ensure efficient and speedy attendance and cost effective solutions tailored for each client’s case. Our firm is equally represented in the following ports of Ukraine: Odessa, Chernomorsk (ex Ilyichevsk), Mariupol, Nikolaev, Kherson.