SERVICES
The office is located 2 minutes' walk from Camden Town Underground Station, with quick and easy access to and from Central London. Camden Road London Overground station is also just a few minutes' walk away.
Leonard Lowy
Leonard Lowy & Co. specialises in all aspects of the music industry. With many years' music industry experience both "in-house" and in private practice, Leonard offers sensible, pro-active, effective legal and business affairs advice and assistance, quickly, competently and economically.
His previous dual role in artist management makes him particularly attuned to the relationship between artists and managers, and its attendant tensions and problems.
The firm advises also on recording, publishing, production, remixing, video, "live" performance, merchandising, copyright, new technology, and all other areas of the music business. We are particularly involved in all aspects of the digital side of music, assisting clients with various types of online operations such as aggregators, digital stores, and digital music and image libraries.
Julian Charles
Julian’s broad corporate and commercial practice includes:
- Buying and selling companies and businesses
- expert in private equity funding and joint ventures; drafting and negotiating investment agreements, shareholder agreements and ancillary documentation in relation to start ups and joint venture companies, later stage investments and exits; undertaking due diligence and verification
- particular specialism in advising on shareholder agreements and shareholder disputes
- agency and distribution agreements
- partnership and limited liability partnership agreements
- insolvency advice
- IT and software agreements and commercial licences
- acting for employers and employees in employment matters; drafting contracts of employment, grievance and disciplinary policies, drafting and negotiating compromise agreements
- significant experience of corporate work in relation to the Media sector
Recent Cases
Acting for:
- majority investor in leading edge technology JVC with proposed European, US and African operations
- architects in relation to employee share options for second and future generations, involving complex and sensitive negotiations in addition to detailed drafting
- majority shareholder in high profile Transport Company in successfully defending minority shareholders petition
- major investor in SPV for property development, dealing with major overseas lender and security documentation