Peter Lewin

CEO

London, England, United Kingdom16 yrs 3 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Decade of experience in video games law.
Expert in negotiation and intellectual property.
Cross-jurisdictional perspective on industry challenges.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a specialist in legal services for the interactive entertainment industry.

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Legal AdviceDispute ResolutionNegotiationCommunicationProject ManagementEvents OrganisationLeadershipLegal DocumentsLegal ResearchProperty LawWestlawDocument DraftingTime ManagementContract LawMedical Ethics

About

I'm a commercial and regulatory lawyer with a decade of experience working in the video games and wider interactive entertainment industry. I advise on the legal and business aspects of running digital entertainment businesses, with a particular focus on negotiation of complex deals, regulation and exploitation of intellectual property. I work exclusively within the interactive entertainment industry, and am exceptionally lucky to work with a wide range of incredible clients spanning developers, publishers, distributors, tech providers and esports businesses. This, together with the fact that my practice includes clients of all sizes spread around the world, gives me a hugely valuable cross-industry and cross-jurisdictional perspective on industry developments, challenges and market practices.

Experience

Wiggin

2 roles

Partner

Promoted

Apr 2023 – Present · 2 yrs 11 mos

Senior Associate

Nov 2020 – Apr 2023 · 2 yrs 5 mos

Purewal & partners

Senior Associate

Sep 2015 – Nov 2020 · 5 yrs 2 mos · London Area, United Kingdom

http://www.purewalandpartners.com/peter-lewin

Mercer uk

Trainee solicitor (secondment)

Sep 2014 – Mar 2015 · 6 mos · London Area, United Kingdom

During this 6 months secondment I was responsible for developing and strengthening our relationship with one of our key clients by becoming an integral member of the Mercer team and acting as a representative for my firm. My work spanned a wide spectrum, from pension litigation to commercial contracts negotiation.

Pinsent masons

Trainee Solicitor

Sep 2013 – Sep 2015 · 2 yrs

Throughout my traineeship I undertook 6 month rotations in Energy Finance, Commercial Property, a secondment in Pension Litigation and IP.

The university of edinburgh

Research Assistant

Jun 2011 – Aug 2011 · 2 mos

This was a very intensive 8 week research project into over-criminalisation (i.e. whether or not there are too many criminal laws) during the last Labour government. My task was to find out how many criminal offences were brought into law during a certain 2 year period, analyse each of these in depth to determine the various elements of the crime, the possible penalties etc, and present these in an easily digestible form. How I was to go about achieving this was very much up to me.
I was working independently throughout most of the project so was largely left to my own devices to implement a research plan, timetable, set milestones, organise catch up meetings, analyse data, review work, resolve issues, communicate findings and so on. Over the course of the project I analysed and recorded over 2000 criminal offences.
The research I had carried out was later used as the foundation for a paper published in the Oxford Journal of CLP.

Mcgrigors

Summer Intern

Jun 2011 – Jun 2011 · 0 mo

Legal internship involving analysis of legal contracts and conducting research with a focus in Commercial Technology.

Semple fraser llp

Summer Intern

May 2011 – May 2011 · 0 mo · Edinburgh

Legal internship involving analysis of legal contracts and conducting research with a focus in Construction and Banking.

Westlaw uk

Westlaw Representative

Oct 2009 – Jun 2013 · 3 yrs 8 mos

In this role I was effectively acting as a consultant on two of Thomson Reuter’s online legal databases containing legislation, case reports, legal journals etc. I hosted semi-weekly drop-in sessions, providing guidance on optimal searching, resolving user issues and teaching users about new tools.