Marks & Clerk launches a consultancy business

SPECIALIST intellectual property law firm Marks & Clerk has launched a new consultancy business.

Marks & Clerk Consulting will offer a range of consultancy services complementary to the group’s mainstream legal and IP advisory services, brought together under one roof for the first time.  A similar organisation has been set up in France.

The firm has long-established practices in Birmingham, Cheltenham and Oxford which will provide a gateway to the new consultancy services for businesses in the Midlands. 

Marks & Clerk Consulting is intended to be an intellectual property valuation service which offers valuations of intellectual property rights of all types, including patents, trademarks and designs, as well as other intangible assets such as goodwill and customer lists.

It will provide all the due diligence, documenting, portfolio assessments, validity and scope research needed to support credible valuations. The new firm will also offer strategic advice on how best to monetise IP portfolios and maximise their commercial value, providing budget and cash flow forecasts and assessing licensing options and structures.

Keith Hodkinson, managing partner of Marks & Clerk Consulting in the UK, said: “For the first time, these services are being offered through a single multidisciplinary outlet with all of the necessary expertise in one coherent unit.”