David Llewelyn represents clients in all aspects of intellectual property protection and exploitation, as well as the resolution of disputes concerning intellectual property by negotiation, mediation, litigation and arbitration.

After a period as a NATO Fellow in 1979, he spent nearly two years as a Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property and Competition Law in Munich. In July 1994 David founded Llewelyn Zietman, which grew to a 25-lawyer firm before he left in September 1999 to join White & Case.

David has published and lectured extensively: he is Professor of Intellectual Property Law at King's College London and External Director of the IP Academy, Singapore. He is co-author of Kerly's Law of Trade Marks and Trade Names (14th ed. 2005), the leading practitioners' textbook on the subject in the UK and EU, co-author of Cornish, Llewelyn & Aplin on Intellectual Property: Patents, Copyright, Trade Marks and Allied Rights (7th ed. 2010) and the author of Invisible Gold in Asia – Creating Wealth through Intellectual Property (2010).

David 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.

Bars and Courts
England and Wales, 1985

Education
City of London Polytechnic, 1982
Worcester College, University of Oxford, 1979
LLB, Southampton University, 1977

Languages
English

Citizenship
United Kingdom