Richard VARY is a solicitor advocate and Senior Litigation Counsel for Nokia. He manages Nokia's European litigation.

Richard has particular expertise in multi-jurisdictional patent litigation. Since joining Nokia's litigation team, he has managed the European and Asian aspects of the litigations brought by Qualcomm, Interdigital and IPCom. For these cases, Nokia was awarded the "in-house team" award in 2009 by Managing Intellectual Property, and has been nominated in the "in house" category by Juve. Managing Intellectual Property also named Nokia v Interdigital as European Patent Case of the year in 2008.

Richard has bachelors and masters degrees in Natural Sciences (physics, chemistry, molecular cell biology) from Downing College, Cambridge University. He studied law in London, then trained at Linklaters, qualifying into the Intellectual Property department. During his time at Linklaters he worked on IP litigation and the IP aspects of corporate and commercial transactions. He joined Nokia's IPR litigation team in 2006.