Anna Williams is a Senior Associate within Osborne Clarke's media team. Anna specialises in providing commercial and intellectual property advice to a number of brand owner and agency clients within the advertising, publishing and media sectors. Anna regularly advises on a variety of issues concerning marketing and sponsorship activities including the negotiation of client/agency agreements, talent agreements and sponsorship agreements as well as advising on all aspects of intellectual property, promotions, digital marketing, advertising clearance, brand exploitation and general commercial contracts.

Before joining the media team in 2004, Anna was an in-house lawyer for Vodafone Group Services Ltd was responsible for advising Vodafone group companies on a range of intellectual property and commercial matters both on a local and global scale. She provided advice in relation to Vodafone's corporate sponsorship activities; their advertising campaigns; joint collaborations with other companies; music and content related activities and the exploitation and protection of the Vodafone brand.

For the last three years, Anna has been quoted as an "Associate to watch" within the Chambers Guide to the Legal Profession with her clients highly rating her "dedication, speed, accuracy and clear style". She is a regular speaker at a variety of conferences each year which focus on advertising and sponsorship issues and issues affecting the media sector.

Anna was also previously a member of the Direct Marketing Association's Mobile Marketing Council and assisted with the creation of the DMA's best practice guidelines for mobile marketing from a legal perspective.