Hannah Finster

About me

Hannah is an intellectual property lawyer who advises clients on a broad range of contentious and non-contentious IP issues primarily pertaining to trade marks, passing off, design rights and copyright matters.

Hannah has been involved in multiple actions before the High Court and Intellectual Property Enterprise Court including cases with multi-jurisdictional elements. Hannah has experience providing clients with practical and commercial advice from the pre-action stage through to settlement. Hannah also has particular experience submitting online trade mark, copyright and PDO infringement notices to third party web-platforms and also domain name dispute resolution procedure.

On the non-contentious side Hannah has worked on corporate transactions, drafting commercial contracts, intellectual property licensing and commercialisation, mobile application and website terms of use and privacy policies, and has also advised more generally on brand protection strategy, trade mark clearance searches and both trade mark and design applications and registrations.

Hannah has represented clients operating in a wide range of sectors, particularly from within fashion, food and beverages and other retail sectors, digital media and has particular experience advising clients in the fast-growing health and wellness industry.

Hannah graduated from the University of Warwick in 2011 with a degree in History. After completing her GDL and LPC she trained at a boutique IP firm in the West End, qualifying in March 2016 before joining Marks & Clerk in 2017. Outside of work Hannah’s interests include travel, food, good wine and skiing.