Media & Entertainment

We advise extensively across the entertainment and media industries, combining legal expertise with a practical understanding of the commercial, creative, and intellectual property interests that drive the sector.

Our entertainment practice covers the full lifecycle of an artist’s business’s interests, including recording and artist agreements, music publishing and administration agreements, split sheets, producer and songwriter agreements, catalogue acquisitions and monetisation, royalty structures and collection, licensing, and related intellectual property matters.

Our practice also extends across film, television and broadcasting, where we advise on talent and crew agreements, development and production arrangements, option and literary purchase agreements, licensing, distribution, and regulatory and broadcasting compliance. For live entertainment and touring, we advise on venue and promoter agreements, performance contracts, tour sponsorships, artist engagements, and the commercial arrangements that underpin successful events.

We further advise artists, creators, brands and entertainment businesses on endorsements, sponsorships, merchandising and commercial collaborations, including name, image and likeness rights, brand ambassadorships, licensing, and the protection and commercialisation of personality and brand assets.

Our approach is deliberately sector-focused: we do not treat entertainment agreements as ordinary commercial contracts. We understand the creative relationships, revenue streams, rights structures and commercial realities behind them, and structure and negotiate transactions with those realities in view.