With 41 lawyers, Wragge & Co's Intellectual Property (IP) team is one of the largest dedicated IP practices in the UK. And, as Managing Intellectual Property's UK law firm of the year, it matches quality with quantity. This year's Legal 500 describes the team simply as 'impressively strong', while Chambers refers to the team as 'one of the top players'.

When not winning awards, this nine-partner team can be found advising some of the world's biggest companies – British Airways, Dyson, Birds Eye, Microsoft and Kingspan - on clearance, exploitation and enforcement of their IP rights. The team divides itself along sector lines – high tech, brands (including franchising) and life sciences. This, together with backgrounds including biochemists, physicists, engineers and microbiologists ensures the team's advice is rooted in and supports your business.

Sector specialisation and secondments equip this team with the commercial pragmatism needed by today's lawyers. Legal 500 agrees, 'Wragge & Co LLP's excellent practice wins praise for its 'commercially orientated' approach, particularly as regards cost management and 'awareness of commercial objectives'.

A regular supply of comment and practical tips on the big issues affecting intellectual property keeps the team's contacts up to date with developments and helps them stay ahead of their competition. Articles, seminars and speaking engagements in the UK, Singapore, California, Boston, Chicago, Prague, Paris, Rome and Copenhagen ensure an international reputation for thought leadership.

The team also includes a member of Nominet's panel of experts Cerryg Jones and CEDR appointed mediators Nick Cunningham and Gordon Harris. Gordon is a World Intellectual Property Organisation disputes panellist and is on the recommended panel of mediators for the Patents County Court. He also 'has a brilliant way with clients and offers plenty of support' (Chambers UK). David Barron, described as 'highly skilled, intelligent and knowledgeable' by Legal 500, leads the high-tech patent litigation team  which is active in some of the biggest cases ever to be heard in the Patents Court while Huw Evans 'is an effective patent litigator who leaves you feeling calm and reassured'.

A brand audit service led by Michael Luckman and Sara McNeill ensures that clients' IP portfolios are commercially relevant to their business, effective and appropriately protected. The service demonstrates the team's expertise in the creation, maintenance, exploitation and enforcement of IP.

For more about IP, contact gordon_harris@wragge.com.