Nina O’Sullivan
Counsel and Professional Support Lawyer Intellectual Property , King&Wood Mallesons
Nina qualified in 1998 at a City firm and focusses on contentious IP & IT matters. She has extensive expertise across all areas of IP litigation and protection, and in related fields such as IT litigation, data protection and defamation & reputation management disputes. In addition to advising clients on these issues, Nina provides the IP group and its clients with information, training and guidance on developments in IP law and practice. Nina is also an active member of our TMT, Life Sciences and Betting & Gaming sector groups.
Nina writes regularly for IP publications (including for Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice, European Intellectual Property Review, Intellectual Property Magazine, ITMA Review, CIPA Guide and Bio-Science Law Review) and also edits a number of King & Wood Malleson’s client publications. She has lectured extensively on IP and other areas, and recently worked with the Law Commission on its Report into the UK legislation concerning groundless threats of IP infringement proceedings, writing Background Papers on the current law.
Before joining King & Wood Mallesons, Nina spent a period of time as a Senior Lecturer in Business Law, Commercial Law and IP Law & Practice. She is currently an Independent Research Essay adviser on the LLM at University College London.
Nina graduated from Oxford University with a BA (Hons) in Jurisprudence in 1995. Following qualification, Nina obtained the Diploma in IP Law & Practice from Bristol University and, in 2007, an LLM in Commercial Law (with Distinction).