Peter Lewin

Partner @ Wiggin

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.

Country

United Kingdom

City

London

Industry

Legal Services

Skill

Legal Advice, Dispute Resolution, Negotiation, Communication, Project Management, Events Organisation, Leadership, Legal Documents, Legal Research, Property Law, Westlaw, Document Drafting, Time Management, Contract Law, Medical Ethics, Conveyancing, Private Clients, Legal Writing, Employment Law, International Law

Experience

Partner

Wiggin

2023-4 - Present · 3 yrs 6 mos

London, England, United Kingdom

Senior Associate

Wiggin

2020-11 - 2023-4 · 2 yrs 6 mos

London

Senior Associate

Purewal & Partners

2015-9 - 2020-11 · 5 yrs 3 mos

London, United Kingdom

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

Trainee Solicitor

Pinsent Masons

2013-9 - 2015-9 · 2 yrs 1 mo

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

Trainee solicitor (secondment)

Mercer UK

2014-9 - 2015-3 · 7 mos

London, 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.

Westlaw Representative

Westlaw UK

2009-10 - 2013-6 · 3 yrs 9 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.

Research Assistant

The University of Edinburgh

2011-6 - 2011-8 · 3 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.