Professor David Llewelyn
Biography
Professor David Llewelyn joined BIICL as Honorary Senior Fellow in 2020. Professor Llewelyn is a Professor of Law at King's College London and a partner and Head of Intellectual Property at international law firm White & Case in its London office. He is also External Director of the IP Academy Singapore and Honorary Professor in Intellectual Property Law at Hong Kong University.
After a period as a NATO Fellow in 1979, Professor Llewelyn spent nearly two years as a Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property and Competition Law in Munich. In July 1994, he founded Llewelyn Zietman, which grew to a 25-lawyer firm before he left in September 1999 to join White & Case.
Professor Llewelyn is one of the "Leading Individuals" in intellectual property named by Chambers' Guide to the Legal Profession and is one of the top 50 trademark lawyers in the world chosen by Euromoney's Managing Intellectual Property.
