2024/2025
"Bird & Bird are the consummate professionals. On every occasion when I have worked with them, they have excelled in terms of experience, strategy and effectiveness. Their people are of the highest calibre, and are always a pleasure to work with. I have often also worked on the opposite side to them, and they make a formidable opponent."
"They are knowledgeable, diligent, and easy to work with."
"Bird & Bird has technical expertise, is well regarded in the market, provides high-quality legal advice for a reasonable price. The IP team are very easy to work with, they provide excellent advice that is practical and aligned with our commercial objectives."
Patrick Kelleher
"He has a pragmatic approach to issues in a case, with a good sense of the strong points on which to push hard and the weaker points on which to row softly."
Eleanor Root
"Has great communication, good understanding of the sector, and excellent collaboration."
Ewan Grist
"Ewan provides excellent advice, is responsive and practical. Ewan understands the commercial objectives at play for our organization and his advice takes these into account."
Emma Green
"Emma is very responsive and provides excellent trademark counsel."
2023
"They are professional and quick to respond, and were able to deal with a very tricky counterpart who tried every trick in the book."
"They provide an excellent service. It is a responsive team, who are experts in their field."
"They are great value for money."
"They have been thorough, insightful and responsive to our needs. They are technically extremely capable and very commercially astute and practicable. In particular, I have worked with Toby Bond and always found him to be a sound and strategic leader. His ability to combine strong technical yet practical direction with the details of management of his team allowed him to deal with our instructions extremely competitively and efficiently, which has been excellent value for money, whilst still being extremely responsive to our entire team."
"They are very strong strategically and easy to work with."
"They are very easy to work with."
"All of the partners and teams I have worked with at Bird & Bird have been extremely smart, hard-working and professional. As a barrister it is incredibly valuable to work with a solicitor team who are fully immersed in the technology and case strategy and whose support you can count on in all aspects of preparing a case for trial. Bird & Bird provide that."
"The team are highly engaged and innovative."
"They are very strategic."
"They are innovative and think outside the box."
"They are very active, approachable and clear in their advice. Decisive. "
2022 client testimonials
"The firm provides practical, straightforward advice."
"Easy to work with, responsive and clear."
"We chose the firm because of its strong reputation for patent litigation, responsiveness, international presence and ability to coordinate work across multiple jurisdictions."
"The firm understands the commercial complexities in infringement matters."
"Friendly, fun, approachable, responsive and knowledgeable."
2021 client testimonials
A client said the firm has a “highly knowledgeable team who can look at an issue from all angles and give practical solutions”. The client said the firm delivered a “superb client service”.
2019 client testimonials
A client said the firm’s practitioners are “responsive and easy to work with”.
Another client described the team as “extremely pragmatic and forward thinking”.
A long-standing client used the firm because of the “genuine IP specialists and real depth of expertise across the firm”, noting that there have been “no complaints”.
One client also used the firm because of its “proven track record” in IP. The client said the firm provided “strategic and commercially applicable advice based on excellent legal analysis”, adding: “We received an excellent service overall.”
One client provided a detailed explanation of what they like about the firm: “Bird & Bird provide a one-stop shop for all IP requirements, which is convenient. The size of the team is good so that their responses are generally quick, and work is undertaken at an appropriate and cost-effective level of seniority. We clearly understand how the teams are set up, so it is clear who our contact person is depending on what we need.” The client appreciates the value-add: “They are willing to invest in getting to know us better by providing secondees and assisting with in-house training. [We get] value for money.”
