Aaron Trebble

Aaron Trebble is a Legal Director in Lewis Silkin’s Interactive Entertainment team. He specialises in intellectual property and contentious data privacy. Aaron regularly advises clients on matters such as the development, ownership and licensing of games and software, disputes about rights ownership and software defects. Aaron has supported publishers and developers with a wide range of issues, disputes and transactions involving businesses and projects at different stages, from start-up indies through to multinational AAA developments. Aaron’s intellectual property experience encompasses a wide range of contentious and non-contentious advice including trade mark prosecution, brand protection, patent, trade mark, copyright and design infringement, counterfeit and imitation products, passing off, domain name and company name disputes as well as transactional corporate and commercial matters. This includes a busy practice enforcing and defending IP-related claims in and out of the courtroom. His advisory work has involved creating strategy documents to help businesses identify and protect IP and navigate risks, including techniques to manage the risk of infringement at the content creation stage. He has also supported a number of innovative businesses through significant development projects, and mergers and acquisitions. Aaron’s contentious data protection work covers disputes about cybersecurity and data breaches, subject access and other data subject requests, and defending compensation claims for distress or other damage. He is experienced in resolving small individual claims in this area, as well as very high value matters involving multiple claimants.