Media, Entertainment and Sport

The world of media, entertainment, and sport is fast paced. It can be exciting, and challenging and anyone involved in the fields of media, entertainment or sport needs to have their wits about them or the support of specialist entertainment and sports lawyers to protect their interests.

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Media, entertainment and sport services

Whether you are an aspiring or leading individual in the field of media or entertainment or a publishing house or sporting organisation, sponsor, or licensed agent, our dedicated and specialist team of media, entertainment and sports lawyers can help you with:

commercial contracts including publishing deals
sponsorship deals
ambassador agreements
social media and introducer agreements
confidentiality and non-disclosure agreements
brand protection and management
UK entry clearance for creatives in the fields of art, media and entertainment
sportsperson visas for UK entry
finance agreements
regulatory issues and governing bodies and organisations
tax structures and arrangements
tax investigations of corporates, partnerships or individuals

IMD Corporate entertainment, media and sports sector expertise

IMD Corporate help individuals, organisations and companies with all their business law related entertainment, media and sport legal needs, including:

providing specialist commercial solutions
commercial contract disputes
alternative dispute resolution
delivering corporate solutions
global mobility solutions for international artistes, creatives and sportspersons
employment contracts and resolving employment disputes
customer and supplier disputes
regulatory and compliance advice
data protection
financial services
tax law services and investigations

Who IMD Corporate act for

The team of media, entertainment and sports lawyers, from a range of business law disciplines, act for a variety of individual media and entertainment personalities and sportspersons to companies, including:

advertisers
agents and promoters
authors and publishers
broadcasters
clubs
creatives from writers to musicians to actors
entrepreneurs
event promoters
film and television companies
governing bodies
managers
players
producers
streaming service providers
investors

Marcin Durlak

Managing Partner View profile

Key contact

Olexandr Kyrychenko

Partner View profile

Why chose IMD Solicitors as your media and sports lawyers

For us, our value is in our excellent client service, attention to detail and getting the legal stuff right. We do not pretend to be anything other than great lawyers, and that’s what makes us a winning team when we represent talented individuals and companies in the creative and sporting sectors.

Whether our team of lawyers is drafting a high profile contract or resolving a regulatory, compliance or contractual issue or negotiating a broadcasting deal, we focus on getting the job done, quickly and with reputation and brand management our key priority.

IMD Solicitors have offices in London, Birmingham and Manchester, and several European cities, with many trusted partners throughout Europe. We resolve UK and EU based disputes, corporate transactions and commercial law matters governed by UK or EU law.

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List of notable commercial cases

Advising one of the largest European banks on a number of occasions in respect of validity and construction of guarantees and on demand bonds, together with validity of agreements varying the guarantees and the underlying multi-million facility agreements.
Advising on the establishment of a large entertainment company. Preparing various corporate and investment documents and leading extensive negotiations of shareholder agreement and ancillary documents. In addition, we provided various legal support to the company on on-going basis.
Acting for a major automotive manufacturer in a joint venture with a UK company to commence production and distribution on the product in the UK and the Commonwealth. Negotiating and preparing all the relevant joint venture documents.
Acting for the construction company in a large scale building project of circa £25m. Involved in negotiating an extensive JCT D&B contract as between our client (main contractor) and the local authority who were their client in this project.
Drafting Terms & Conditions and Warranty terms for a leading UK manufacturer of steel doors, windows and partitions.
Representing a sub-contractor in construction contract negotiations involving a large number of parties for construction of a museum in Kuwait.
Advising on and drafting SaaS (Software as a Service) contract for the Client entering the UK market
Advising on both pro-supplier and pro-customer Software Development Agreements for various Clients
Advised a technology start up to set up and validate a messaging app, a direct competitor to Facebook’s Messenger
Advising the client on and negotiating terms of corporate and personal guarantees tied to a cross-border commercial contract.
Assisting a charity in preparation of various terms and conditions and contractual agreements.
Advising the client on the terms of a joint venture agreement in an innovative waste management project.
Advised the first Polish-owned bridging company in the UK
Advising the client on the validity of execution of a number of international corporate finance agreements.