Creative Industries

We act for a huge variety of companies across a wide range of diverse creative industries, from start-ups to large international blue-chip corporations. Our solicitors are very experienced in this sector and understand the world in which our clients operate and the challenges that they face.

Our clients come from a wide variety of industries in the creative sector, including:

• Advertising
• Architecture
• Arts and Culture
• Craft
• Createch
• Design
• Fashion
• Games
• Music
• Publishing
• TV and Film

We regularly help clients with:

• Advice on intellectual property rights and brand protection
• Commercial contracts
• Data protection and privacy laws
• Debt collection
• Disputes with contractors
• Agency, distribution and franchise arrangements
• Mergers and acquisitions
• Commercial landlord and tenant advice
• Property and lease disputes
• Managing employment issues, including disciplinary, grievances and dismissals
• Defending Employment Tribunal claims
• Drafting employment contracts, settlement agreements and post termination restrictions

Our experience in the creative sector:

• Advising a well-known music artist in relation to a trademark application
• Advising a well known international independent record shop on various matters, including new leases and lease renewals, employee settlement agreements, company acquisitions and supplier disputes
• Advising a digital marketing agency on a contract dispute and providing advice on copyright issues
• Advising a large architectural firm in relation to employment contracts, share options and lease renewals
• Advising a specialist experiential marketing services company in relation to a contract dispute with a website designer
• Advising a publishing company in relation to a passing off action
• Advising a specialist festival company in relation to trade mark application and shareholders’ agreement