AGG and Three IP Partners Earn Recognition in 2025 WTR 1000
Atlanta, February 3, 2025 – Arnall Golden Gregory LLP (AGG) is pleased to announce the firm’s Intellectual Property practice has been recognized by World Trademark Review’s 2025 WTR 1000 for the sixth year. Additionally, AGG IP partners J. Tucker Barr, Anuj Desai, and Matthew V. Wilson have once again earned recognition as leading trademark and IP law practitioners.
Tucker Barr is a partner and co-chair of the firm’s IP practice. WTR notes that Tucker “competently assist[s] clients from registration to litigation. His clients include one of the largest restaurant chains in the United States, providing high-quality safeguarding for the brand.” Tucker works with clients to identify, clear, and register their trademarks. In addition to providing traditional trademark clearance, prosecution, and portfolio maintenance services, he provides strategic advice to help clients overcome trademark conflicts through brand transitions, consent agreements and licenses, and trademark purchases and assignments.
Anuj Desai, partner in AGG’s IP practice and head of Trademarks, “puts the firm on the map, frequently appearing in state and federal courts in his dispute resolution successes,” according to WTR. The publication also states that Anuj “provides top-tier strategic advice in all areas of the IP landscape and across countless industries.” As an IP lawyer with a hybrid practice encompassing transactional matters and litigation, Anuj’s clients trust him to manage, safeguard, and resolve disputes involving a variety of creative assets. He delivers strategic and practical advice to develop, protect, and enforce brands in both the U.S. and abroad.
Matt Wilson is a partner in AGG’s Corporate and IP practices and chair of the Entertainment & Sports industry team. “With an enthusiastic level of business acumen, he is the frontman for advising music festivals,” said WTR. Matt advises his clients on legal matters related to entertainment, technology, new media, and advertising. With more than two decades of experience representing recording artists, songwriters, publishers, producers, business teams, labels, distributors, and concert promoters, his clients value him as a trusted advisor on copyright, licensing, and other intellectual property matters and as a vital counselor in connection with their career paths.
“Housing a well-known, trusted trademark team, Arnall Golden Gregory is a great option for establishing global brand portfolios and is dedicated to protecting its clients’ creative works,” according to WTR. “Described wholly as ‘diligent, professional and knowledgeable,’ its valued team represents clients of all sizes.”
The WTR 1000 focuses exclusively on trademark practice and has firmly established itself as the definitive “go-to” resource for those seeking world-class legal trademark expertise. Across a four-month period, WTR’s team of analysts scrutinized the legal services market, conducting face-to-face and telephone interviews and exchanged correspondence with hundreds of lawyers, attorneys, and their clients involved with trademarks. Individuals qualify for inclusion in the WTR 1000 upon receiving sufficient positive feedback from market sources with knowledge of their practice and the market in which they operate. Firms qualify for a listing on the basis of their depth of expertise, market presence, and the level of work on which they are typically instructed.
To view AGG’s WTR 1000 profile, please click here.
ABOUT ARNALL GOLDEN GREGORY LLP
Arnall Golden Gregory (AGG) is an Am Law 200 law firm with offices in Atlanta and Washington, D.C. Our client-service model is rooted in taking a “business sensibility” approach of fully understanding how our clients’ legal matters fit into their overall business objectives. Our transaction, litigation, and regulatory counselors serve clients in healthcare, real estate, retail, technology, fintech/payment systems, global commerce/global mobility, life sciences, logistics and transportation, government investigations, and government contracts. With our rich experience and know-how, we don’t ask “if,” we figure out “how.” Visit us at www.agg.com.
- J. Tucker Barr
Partner
- Anuj Desai
Partner
- Matthew V. Wilson
Partner