Robert Deacon
11 Stone Buildings

Robert Deacon has broad experience in chancery, commercial and business related civil litigation with specialist knowledge in intellectual property and media and entertainment. His expertise extends to banking and guarantees, partnership, construction, fraud and asset-tracing and professional negligence. Primarily known as a litigator he has undertaken many heavily contested often high profile trials and devoted a substantial part of his practice to specialist advice work. He is an experienced interlocutory litigator particularly in relation to freezing and search orders and other interim remedies.

His intellectual property practice ranges from trade marks to copyright, patents and design right work and he has extensive experience of defamation and privacy claims. He has chaired and for some years delivered lectures at the annual intellectual property law and sports law conferences for London Legal Training. His lecture topics have included privacy and image rights, performers' rights, performers' royalties, database rights and freedom of movement of goods.