Laura Symons

Laura Symons is an English qualified commercial and IP solicitor with experience working in both private practice and in-house. She has advised a wide range of businesses, including in theatre, publishing, digital media, sponsorship, technology, education and sport, with a particular focus on start-ups and the media and entertainment sector.

Laura specialised as an intellectual property lawyer at London law firm, Harbottle & Lewis LLP. Her work involved advising clients on a broad spectrum of commercial matters, as well as brand protection issues such as copyright, infringement disputes and trade mark registration and opposition. Laura also spent some time on partial secondment at Microsoft, as well as several months working in-house on secondment at Virgin Atlantic Airways.

Since relocating to Montreal in 2014, she has built up a wide-ranging base of clients whom she advises in a freelance capacity, as well as working as sole inhouse legal counsel for a publicly listed company headquartered in London. In these roles, she advises clients on a variety of contractual and commercial matters, including terms and conditions, confidentiality agreements, software licensing and service and supply contracts. In Laura’s own words...

“My aim is to deliver commercially astute legal advice in an easily digestible format, tailored to the budget of the client.”