Sport, media and entertainment

In today's fast-paced sport, media and entertainment world, the legal advice you receive needs to be timely and tailored to the challenges you face. However complex those challenges may be, Edwin Coe has the know-how to provide advice that is clear, commercial and reliable. This ability to make the complex simple has helped us to build an impressive list of clients from across the sport, media and entertainment sector including film, TV, music, new media, advertising, publishing and PR businesses.

Our lawyers are specialists in their individual fields of practice and together they offer expert advice across a wide range of sport, media and entertainment matters including:

• Commercial agreements (including marketing, merchandise, supplier and distribution agreements)
• Commercial contracts (including music, publishing and commissions)
• Company formations and re-organisations
• Confidentiality agreements
• Copyright registration, protection and infringement
• Corporate finance
• Defamation, privacy, libel and slander
• Employment law (including data protection)
• Intellectual property (including trademarks, patents and passing off)
• Internet and IT (e.g. domain names)
• Joint ventures
• Management buy-outs/buy-ins
• Media disputes
• Mergers, acquisitions and disposals

Please feel free to call one of our partners for more information on our sport, media and entertainment pedigree.