the media & communications team
Media Lawyers
Expert Media Lawyers
Specialist legal advice and services for ambitious start-ups and growing businesses.
Working with media and communications clients, we understand not only the relevant areas of corporate and commercial law, but their businesses, and unique competitive and regulatory environments.
How our lawyers can help
We can support companies involved in television and radio broadcasting, music or film production, events, talent management, book or newspaper publishing, and telecommunications services or infrastructure.
Our expertise spans IP and content licensing, M&A and international joint ventures, UK and cross-border industry regulations, contractual disputes, investments and much more.
Our Experience:
- Worked with a global celebrity on their various corporate, commercial, employment and IP matters including the partial sale of their shares in its media business
- Acted for an international talent management company with respect to its various ongoing legal matters which includes advising on certain potential M&A deals
- We have handled incorporation and shareholders' agreements for a well-known broadcaster to house a format that he had devised which was later exploited with one of the terrestrial TV networks, we have handled numerous talent agreements for high profile broadcasters and international film stars (acting for both talent and producer) and we have been instructed in relation to the exploitation of numerous factual documentaries, some involving very high profile contributors
- Assisting with defamation claims, trade libel, and reputational issues, contractual disputes concerning media based industries including performance contracts and telecommunications. Instructed by a high-profile sports personality in applying to strike out the judgment in default entered against them
- We've advised clients on agency agreements, in all media spaces (including social) and representing both talent and agency sides
- We have helped software companies with the launch of numerous successful apps
Get In touch
If you’re running a tech start-up or an established media & communication company and want legal advice and support from a law firm that understands your needs and working environment, get in touch with us here at Ignition.