Lorna is a Founding Partner at CFL Advocates. Her practice spans across intellectual property, advertising, marketing, promotion, and entertainment law.

Her expertise covers multijurisdictional intellectual property matters, with experience in filing, maintenance, and prosecution of trade marks, patents, industrial designs, and copyright across Africa. Lorna navigates international and regional registration systems including PCT, Madrid, ARIPO, and OAPI, offering strategic counsel to clients in the marketing and entertainment sectors.

Lorna supports creative enterprises through comprehensive services. Her practice includes due diligence investigations, intellectual property licensing and transfers in media and entertainment, enforcement strategies for advertising and brand protection, portfolio management, trade mark oppositions and infringement litigation, and anticounterfeiting surveys and brand monitoring.

As a certified mediator with expertise in data protection, Lorna provides legal advisory services that extend beyond traditional intellectual property management. She drafts and negotiates contracts for advertising agencies, entertainment companies, and media businesses, addressing technology transfer, intellectual property assignments, and support for mergers and acquisitions.

Her professional standing is strengthened by her membership in the International Trademark Association (INTA), the Pharmaceutical Trademarks Group (PTMG), the International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property (AIPPI), and ADVOC,  an International Network of Independent Law Firms. These memberships enable her to gain insights on the challenges faced by creative industries in Africa and to provide commercially focused solutions. She is a recipient of numerous accolades and citations including rankings In Chambers and Partners, Managing IP and WTR1000.

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