The Firm: Having acted for book, music, newspaper and magazine publishers for a number of years, the team has earned itself a reputation as “a top London publishing practice.” Drawing upon the defamation, IP and IT expertise located elsewhere within the firm, it regularly defends publishers in high-profile cases, and provides clients such as Penguin and Private Eye with pre-publication libel-reading advice. The past year also saw the publishing team advise Macmillan on IP issues arising from the copyright of its ‘Buggy Buddies’ range of books, and act for author Anthony Horowitz on IP matters concerning his bestselling children’s novel ‘Stormbreaker’.