Gill Jennings & Every

What Gill Jennings & Every does

Gill Jennings & Every LLP (GJE) is a private English limited liability partnership headquartered at The Broadgate Tower, 20 Primrose Street, London, with a Munich office operated through GJE Germany GmbH under an alliance with German firm Wächtershäuser & Hartz. The firm provides specialist intellectual property legal services across three core practices — patents, trade marks, and designs — delivered through nine service areas: Patents, Trade Marks, Designs, Life Sciences & Biotech, Chemistry & Pharma, Computer Technology & AI, Physics & Engineering, Industrial Design & Consumer Products, and Branding & Trade Marks. The firm is regulated by IPReg and its European patent attorneys by the European Patent Institute (epi). GJE is governed by a Managing Committee led by Chairman Alasdair MacQuarrie, Managing Partners Stephen Haley and Michael Lord, and Practice Director Jenna Massey.

GJE's client base spans large multinational corporations (household-name names in telecommunications, telecom equipment, smartphones, software, pharmaceuticals, consumer brands, and music production equipment), academic institutions commercialising technology, growing SMEs, and start-ups across sectors including life sciences, climate tech, audio products, beverages, sportswear, and photography equipment. The firm earns revenue through professional services fees for IP prosecution, litigation, opposition, freedom-to-operate analysis, and IP due diligence, billed on time-cost or fixed-fee arrangements. Go-to-market is sales-led, driven by direct attorney-client engagement, legal directory rankings, client referrals, industry events (Advanced Materials Show, Agri-EPI Centre conferences), webinars, content marketing, and a client access portal.

Underlying capability rests on partner-attorneys with PhDs and advanced engineering/science degrees across multiple technical disciplines, supported by an operations layer (IT Director, Heads of Accounts, Records and Formalities, Operations, HR, and IP Support Managers) running Inprotech practice management and IT systems. The firm has held the Financial Times' No.1 ranking among European patent law firms for eight consecutive years as of 2026, with gold rankings in IAM Patent 1000 2026, recommendations in IP Stars 2026 and World Trademark Review 2026, and individual partner recognition in WIPR and Legal 500. The firm maintains dedicated Japanese and Chinese client landing pages, indicating active cross-border servicing into East Asia.

Name

Gill Jennings & Every

Legal name

Gill Jennings & Every LLP

Website

https://gje.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1994

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Intellectual Property Law Services

NAICS

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services (541)

akta.pro primary industry

Trademark Prosecution & Brand Protection (BPAHAMAB)

akta.pro secondary industries

IP Due Diligence & Freedom-to-Operate (FTO) Analysis (BPAHAMAG), IP Search, Watch & Competitive Intelligence (BPAHAMAI)

Keywords

• Patent attorney services
• Trade mark protection
• Design registration
• Intellectual property law
• IP portfolio management

Headquarters

HQ city

London

HQ country

United Kingdom

HQ region

Europe

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Professional Services - Patent Prosecution and Litigation: GJE provides patent, trade mark, and design prosecution, filing, and advisory services to businesses of all sizes. Fees are charged for legal services rendered, typically on a time-cost or fixed-fee basis for IP prosecution and advisory work.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels7 records

Core offering

Gill Jennings & Every LLP is a European intellectual property law firm providing patent, trade mark, and design attorney services. The firm drafts, files, and prosecutes patents, trade marks, and designs before the UKIPO, EPO, and EUIPO, and provides IP strategy, freedom-to-operate analyses, IP due diligence, opposition and enforcement work, and advisory services for international IP portfolios.

Product overview

Gill Jennings & Every LLP (GJE) is a leading intellectual property law firm offering a comprehensive suite of legal services across patents, trade marks, and designs. The firm operates as a single integrated practice with specialist teams in nine core service areas: Patents, Trade Marks, Designs, Life Sciences & Biotech, Chemistry & Pharma, Computer Technology & AI, Physics & Engineering, Industrial Design & Consumer Products, and Branding & Trade Marks. These services are delivered by patent attorneys, design attorneys, and trade mark attorneys who provide legal, technical, and commercial expertise to protect innovation, brands, and designs.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Patents

Quantifiable outcome

• Ranked No. 1 patent law firm in Europe for 8 consecutive years by the Financial Times (2026)
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers20 records

Segments6 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Wächtershäuser & HartzcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerGJE announced an alliance with Wächtershäuser & Hartz (W&H), a German patent and trade mark firm. W&H is listed as a limited liability partnership in the Partnerschaftsregister of the Amtsgericht Munich under entry No. PR 531. Their patent attorneys are registered at the German Patent and Trademark Office, European Patent Office, and Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market. GJE's registered business in Germany, GJE Germany GmbH, operates from Weinstraße 8, Munich.

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves7 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Mathys & Squire: UK IP firm focused on patents, trade marks, and designs with strong engineering, computing, and life sciences practices. Direct peer for European patent prosecution mandates and overlapping client base with GJE in mid-market and enterprise segments.
• J A Kemp: Long-established UK patent and trade mark attorney firm with comparable breadth across life sciences, chemistry, and engineering. Direct competitor for the same enterprise and academic clients and consistently ranked alongside GJE in FT and IAM surveys.
• Hoffmann Eitle: Leading German IP firm with a strong patent prosecution practice across engineering, physics, chemistry, and life sciences. Direct competitor in European patent prosecution, particularly for EPO oppositions and German/European patent portfolios.
• Mewburn Ellis: Leading UK-headquartered IP firm with a strong patent and trade mark attorney practice serving life sciences, chemistry, physics, and engineering clients. Closely comparable to GJE on sector mix, attorney-led delivery model, and FT/IAM league table positioning.
• Marks & Clerk: One of the largest European IP specialist firms with deep patent and trade mark attorney practices across the UK, Europe, and Asia. Direct competitor to GJE in European patent prosecution, particularly for multinational clients and across the same FT/IAM ranking landscape.
• HGF Limited: UK-headquartered IP specialist with a broad patent, trade mark, and design practice across multiple European offices. Comparable to GJE on full-service IP offering and analyst recognition, competing for similar FTSE/Russell and multinational mandates.
• Wächtershäuser & Hartz: German patent and trade mark firm and GJE's formal alliance partner, with attorneys registered at the German Patent and Trademark Office, European Patent Office, and EUIPO. Closely aligned on technical specialisations and serves as GJE's German platform.
• D Young & Co: Established UK patent and trade mark firm with sector strengths in life sciences, chemistry, and engineering. Competes directly with GJE for European patent prosecution mandates and appears in the same legal directory rankings.
• Boult Wade Tennant: UK-based IP firm with patent, trade mark, and design practices serving clients from start-ups to multinationals. Comparable to GJE on mid-market and enterprise IP work and similarly ranked in IAM Patent 1000 and WTR.

Broad incumbents

• Bird & Bird: Global full-service law firm with a leading IP practice across Europe, Asia, and the US. Overlaps with GJE on patent and trade mark work but competes from a broader multi-practice platform and deeper geographic reach — a likely counterweight for global enterprise IP mandates.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• YouTubeyoutube.com/user/GillJenningsEvery
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/gill-jennings-&-every-llp
• Xx.com/gje_llp

Compliance2 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles9 records

Subsidiaries1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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