Carlton Wood and Harry Fielding run a company called City Prime Associates in London specialising in intellectual property; trademarks, patents, and copyrights usually for high-end technology. Wood is the business brain, who studied corporate law, and Fielding does the technical stuff after a course in science and engineering (Although he has commonly demonstrated a lack of common sense, such as failing to realise that the PR company the gang claimed to represent never existed beyond their con), the two joining forces a year and a half before the gang confronted them. Their typical business strategy consists of acquiring a new product, stealing the idea, selling it on through a smaller company, and then selling the small company to make themselves a fortune.