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Top 10
POWERLIST 2008
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DANIEL ALEXANDER, QC
Barrister
DANIEL Alexander, QC, has an Some of his glittering legal career
international reputation as one of the highlights include representing The
most celebrated intellectual property/ Beatles in the ongoing dispute with
media, entertainment and IT lawyers Apple Computers over the Apple
of the modern era. As one partner in trademark, plus a host of cases that
a leading City fi rm of solicitors noted have helped shape the present status
about how coveted are his services: of trademark law, involving household
‘He’s very hard to get hold of because he names such as Canon, BMW and Levi’s.
is in such high demand.’ Daniel obtained a fi rst in physics
With a client fi le that includes the and philosophy at Oxford, followed by
BBC, The Beatles, BSkyB, Channel 4 an LLM from Harvard Law School as a
and several prominent entertainment/ Kennedy Scholar. He was called to the
creative media individuals, you can see English and New York bars in 1988, was
why. appointed QC in 2003 and Deputy High
Awarded the Chambers Bar Awards Court Judge in 2006.
IT Silk of the Year 2007, Daniel has Daniel is a Trustee of the Natural
been at the centre of a plethora of History Museum, a member of the
groundbreaking judgements in both Oxford University Law Faculty Advisory
technical and artistic cases. In court, Group and a member of the Bar Council
another top lawyer commends him professional disciplinary panels.
as an ‘excellent operator. Intelligent, In 2005 he was appointed to the Board
thoughtful, nicely laidback – not of Trustees of the Kennedy Memorial
aggressive, but very smooth’. Trust by Tony Blair.
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DAVID ADJAYE
Architect
DAVID ADJAYE is the foremost British Architectural Association are vigorously
architect of his generation, hailed by Time contested for by students.
magazine as ‘the young wonder of the David’s burgeoning reputation has won
London design world’. his 40-strong fi rm an increasing number of
Nevertheless, David’s abiding legacy prestigious commissions, including Oslo’s
will, perhaps, not be for the stunning Nobel Peace Centre, Denver’s Museum of
structures he has designed in London, Art, the award-winning Idea Store library
Oslo, New York, Denver and Boston, but his near London’s Canary Wharf, New York’s
efforts to drag the doggedly insular world Museum of Contemporary Art and many
of architecture into a more inclusive 21st others.
century. In 2007 he launched an exhibition
The stark, but deceptively complex and a book, both entitled Making Public
characteristics of David’s work have Buildings. His building Rivington Place also
garnered him honours (the 2005 RIBA opened last year and was the fi rst new-
Building Award), numerous nominations build public gallery in London since 1968.
and a clutch of high-profi le commissions However, the buildings that present
from the likes of Ewan McGregor, Alexander the most eloquent expressions of David’s
McQueen and Chris Ofi li. determination to raise the multicultural
Born to Ghanaian parents in Tanzania, dynamic underpinning modern British
David achieved his masters at London’s creativity are refl ected in the Bernie Grant
Royal College of Art in 1993 and developed Arts Centre, in Tottenham, north London,
his studio into Adjaye/Associates in and the Stephen Lawrence Centre, in
2000. Places on his tutorials at London’s south-east London’s Deptford.
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