At Stobbs, our mission is to become the World’s Leading Brand Advisory firm, and in March 2025, this mission has become another step closer.

Stobbs is excited to announce the opening of our practice in the US and our commitment to bringing the approach that has made us so successful in the UK and Europe to brand owners on this side of the Atlantic.

US clients will get to experience that if they’ve ever worked in or with a big law firm, working with Stobbs is nothing like that.

Our founders group in the US is made up of some of the highest profile and highest caliber IP professionals in the country.

Scott Evans
Scott joins us having served as Sr. Director, IP, Advertising & AI Policy Law for Adobe. J. Scott has substantial in-house experience having worked at Fruit of the Loom, Yahoo, and Adobe. J. Scott frequently lectures on trademark, copyright, Internet, and AI policy issues and in 2017, he was awarded In-House Counsel of the Year by WTR.

Marty Schwimmer
Marty has been practicing trademark and copyright law for over 35 years. He is a member of the New York state bar. He litigates in U.S. district and appellate courts, and before the U.S. Trademark Office. Marty is a UDRP panelist and is best known as the publisher of The Trademark Blog, the world’s oldest blog devoted to trademark law.

Matthew Ladenheim
Matthew joins us having honed his craft as a named partner in his own firm for 18 years. Matthew is a Board Certified Specialist in Trademark Law. Matthew served as the Chairman of the Trademark Specialization Committee and as President of the Intellectual Property Section. He is currently the Chairman of the Board of Directors for the North Carolina State Bar Board of Legal Specialization. Matthew is also an NCDRC Superior Court Mediator.

They are supported by:

• An established and growing local team, based in Charlotte NC
• The 200+ -strong team in the UK and Europe

This team will be delivering and extending the same disruptive approach that has been received so well by Stobbs clients over the last 12 years:

• A client partner with a truly global view
• A strategic and holistic approach – creating better value client solutions through our range of expertise
• More cost effective – brand advisory is all we do – and we have the systems, scale and infrastructure to deliver this effectively
• A refreshing approach to fees and costs
• An unrivalled breadth of offering – we create creative, bespoke and lasting solutions based on the right blend of our range of our functions
• Designed to deliver better value
• Providing certainty of spend for clients
• No uplift on overseas attorney fees and no soft disbursements

What clients should expect from us

1. Strategic advice on all aspects of brand-related IP work and management across the globe;
2. Filing and prosecution in the US and around the world – in a strategic and cost-effective way;
3. Full-spectrum brand enforcement that is practical and cost-effective – from programmatic takedown programmes to recovery-based programmes to litigation;
4. Marketing legal support and expertise on advertising work in US and Europe; plus access to a global network of marketing legal experts;
5. Access to the wider suite of Stobbs Intangible Asset Management services – including licensing, brand protection, valuation and IP legal-tech systems

We recognise the issues that US brand owners face – increased complexity, increased budgetary pressures, the need to think beyond individual jurisdictions.

With Stobbs now in the US, come and experience for yourself what IP should feel like.