Profile
Tamsin Holman
Partner / London
Practice & Professional Experience
Tamsin’s practice involves predominantly ‘soft’ IP matters, with an emphasis on enforcement and infringement of trade marks, design rights, copyright, domain names, database rights, trade secrets/confidential information, as well as licensing disputes, matters involving ex-employees and anti-counterfeiting work. She acts for UK and international clients in a variety of sectors, including publishing, entertainment, leisure and fashion, FMCG, luxury goods, IT, finance and life sciences.
Tamsin practised as a barrister for five years at specialist IP chambers prior to qualifying as a solicitor and joining a leading City firm. She joined D Young & Co in 2011, together with Ian Starr, to establish the D Young & Co Dispute Resolution & Legal Group.
Tamsin is mentioned in the Legal 500 2011 top tier ranking of D Young & Co: "The team at D Young & Co LLP, the first firm of patent and trade mark attorneys to establish a Legal Disciplinary Practice (LDP), was joined by ‘seasoned IP litigator’ Ian Starr and former barrister Tamsin Holman from Ashurst LLP." It went on to say in its review of the D Young & Co trade mark practice: D Young & Co LLP is ‘top of its field’ and has ‘extensive knowledge’. It recently hired a dispute resolution team, including ‘great litigator’ Ian Starr and Tamsin Holman, from Ashurst LLP.
Qualifications
BA (Hons) in Metallurgy and Science of Materials, Trinity College, University of Oxford 1993. MA awarded 1996.
Called to the Bar of England and Wales (Middle Temple Scholarship) 1995.
Solicitor of the Senior Courts of England and Wales 2002.
Higher Courts (Civil Advocacy) Qualified 2002.
Memberships
Law Society of England and Wales.
International Trade Mark Association (INTA).
International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property (AIPPI).
