Stuart Malcom

Stuart Malcolm is a Partner, Solicitor at EIP. Stuart is a specialist deep tech intellectual property and innovation lawyer with extensive senior-level experience across the United Kingdom's science, technology and innovation sectors. He helps businesses innovate and succeed by protecting, developing and commercialising their intellectual and creative assets.

Stuart's work spans intellectual property strategy, commercial contracts, licensing of technology, joint ventures, corporate finance, spin-outs and technology transfer, and legal due diligence. He has a deep understanding of the UK's science-to-innovation community and a long record of advising on corporate finance deals and commercial matters with a strong technology focus.

Over his career, Stuart has advised clients and stakeholders right across the UK's science-to-innovation and creative ecosystems. These include deep technology companies, start-ups and scale-ups, entrepreneurs, venture capital and private equity firms, research institutions, universities, government bodies, and media and creative enterprises.

From 2016 to 2025, Stuart was General Counsel and Company Secretary, and later Group General Counsel and Group Company Secretary, at M Squared, a leading deep tech photonics and quantum technology business. He built and led the group-wide legal function, with responsibility for legal operations, compliance and IP management across the worldwide business. He created and ran the group's IP management strategy, scaling the portfolio to 70 patent families covering 223 patent applications and granted patents, one of the largest hard IP portfolios held by a UK company.

Earlier in his career, Stuart was a Partner at Shoosmiths, where he established and led the Intellectual Property Team in the Thames Valley office, and a Partner at MBM Commercial. He founded Stuart Malcolm LLP, a niche business law firm focused on the UK's science, technology and innovation sectors, and held senior legal roles at Darbys Solicitors, Oxford University Press, BrookStreet Des Roches, Manches and Celoxica.

Stuart qualified as a solicitor with the Law Society of Scotland in 1999 and with the Solicitors Regulation Authority in 2009. He is also a Notary Public. He holds an LLB with Honours in Commercial Law and a Diploma in Legal Practice, both from the University of Glasgow.