Sheenal Singh

Since joining Kirkland, Sheenal has worked on the following matters:

• Acting for US software company in patent infringement proceedings against multinational Fortune 500 entity in the English High Court.
• Acting for leading international airline in a trade mark invalidation appeal before the English High Court.
• Acting for international tobacco group in patent infringement and revocation proceedings in the English High Court, and assisting with coordination of enforcement actions in a range of European jurisdictions.

Prior to joining Kirkland, Sheenal worked on the following matters:

• Acted for copyright collecting society in headline newspaper licensing dispute with Australian media monitoring organizations, involving complex valuations and novel questions of law regarding the jurisdiction of the Copyright Tribunal.
• Acted for Australia’s industry body for commercial free-to-air television broadcasters in a historic copyright licensing dispute with collecting society for the communication of musical works and associated lyrics.
• Represented Australian subscription video on demand provider in multi-party licensing dispute in the Copyright Tribunal.
• Successfully acted for Australia’s largest subscription television provider in a series of landmark ‘site blocking’ cases securing injunctions to disable access to websites that infringe or facilitate the infringement of copyright.
• Represented Australia’s largest subscription television provider in an application for judicial review from the Copyright Tribunal’s determination of a license for the exercise of copyright in sound recordings.
• Advised educational institution and subscription television provider on copyright law reform and in complex copyright licensing negotiations.
• Advised Australia’s second largest telecommunications company on a range of data protection, consumer and advertising law issues.

MinterEllison, Sydney

• Senior Associate, 2020–2022
• Associate, 2018–2020
• Lawyer, 2016–2018