ETA & Associates
Specialists in creative, intellectual property, commercial, and corporate law. We are modern legal professionals focusing on startups and the creative sectors.
About us
We are a forward-thinking legal practice offering creative and commercial advice to clients.
Our focus is on clients in the media, technology and music sectors but, as experienced commercial lawyers, we are also able to tailor our advice to a range of commercial clients.
Our Services
- Company & Commercial
- Media & Entertainment
- Sports & Agency
- Employment
- Data, Privacy, & Specialist Technology
- Mergers & Acquisitions
Our lawyers are excellent corporate and commercial lawyers who advise startups and other business clients on how to get the most out of their business.
Amongst our clients, we can count a technology provider to yacht companies, a luxury e-commerce platform, and a leading up and coming marketplace for asset-backed NFTs, amongst many others. We can assist you with:
- Business structure
- Company formation and dissolution
- Allocation and transfer of shares
- Shareholder and partnership agreements
- Investment documentation
- Resolutions
- Share purchase agreements
- Option Agreements
- Terms of Business
- Website Terms
- Company Restructuring
- Joint ventures
- Partnerships
- Board Advisory Services
Our lawyers are well versed in intellectual property matters and advise musicians and other creative industries clients across a spectrum of matters, such as:
- Copyright and trademarks
- IP Assignment documentation
- Licensing arrangements
- Publishing agreements
- Management/agency contracts
- Offer Letters
- Distribution agreements
- Sub-distributor agreements
- Sync licensing documentation
- Single song assignments
- Band / Collective agreements
- Brand partnership agreements
- Influencer agreements
- Sponsorships
- Live events
We cover UK trademarks internally, and international trademarks via our practice partner firm, Jamieson Law. Specialising in business law and brand protection, Jamieson Law is committed to helping businesses safeguard their ventures as they grow and scale by delivering clear and concise advice tailored to each business’s unique needs. They also provide support in areas including commercial lease agreements, investment rounds, and client contract assurances. You can read more about the firm here: https://jamiesonlaw.legal/
Eta & Associates has some experience working with clients in the sports industry. We have a client who we assisted in organising a fitness festival and are able to advise across a range of matters, including but not limited to:
- Brand management
- Sponsorship agreements
- Employment agreements
- Contract review
- Management/agency contracts
We are also able to separately offer to clients on request direct agency support via our sister company, Ubuuru, who boast a number of creative freelancers on their books and within their network. If this is of interest, please contact and engage info@ubuuru.com directly.
- Employment contracts
- Directors’ service agreements
- Freelancer Service Provider agreements
- Consultancy and sub-consultancy agreements
- Terms for recruitment agencies
We ensure that clients are looked after in such matters via our partner firm, Orbital law (https://orbital-law.com/.) Orbital Law helps companies build compliant platforms and applications by analysing their ecosystem and advising on legal, regulatory, and commercial risks. As certified data privacy professionals with over 40 years of combined experience working across all sectors of technology, they bring a wealth of expertise to ensure businesses operate within legal boundaries while mitigating potential risks.
Some of their key offerings are:
- Technology Procurement
- Feasibility Studies
- Risk Analysis
- Data Privacy Audits and Impact Assessments
- Our Mergers and Acquisitions deals are completed via a consultancy collaboration with the firm Kingsley Wood, as facilitated by Law For Me (https://www.lawforme.co.uk/).
- Kingsley Wood is a London based legal services business structured around consultants, enabling the most talented lawyers to deliver their very best performance. Backed by trailblazers in the world of platform-based legal service delivery, Kingsley Wood is one of the industry’s leading recruiters of dispersed talent. You can read more about Kingsley Wood here: https://kingsley-wood.com.
- Law For Me has a vastly experienced team well-versed in technology and the legal environment. Their team has expertise in diverse legal areas including Mergers and Acquisitions, drafting and advising on share and asset purchase agreements, sale and purchases of companies and shareholder agreements.
Locations
London
We specialise in English law and are based in London, United Kingdom.
Our registered office is at:
Eta & Associates
FORA Melcombe Place
12 Melcombe Place
Marylebone, London
NW1 6JJ
Lagos
via our partner practices, SS Kohn and Uxbridge LP
SS Kohn is a full service law Nigerian-based Firm, with an international recognition, boasting expertise in diverse legal areas such as: Dispute resolution, Energy, Natural Resources and Environmental Law, Corporate and Commercial Law and Aviation. You can read more about the firm here: https://sskohn.com/
Uxbridge LP are media and entertainment law specialists, having worked with some of Africa’s biggest artistes.
New York
via our partner firm, Pierce Kwok
Pierce & Kwok LLP is an accessible, client-focused law firm that represents entrepreneurs, performing and visual artists, small businesses, start-ups, and midsize companies at every stage in an artist’s career, or in the corporate life cycle of a business, from incubation, startup, growth, angel and venture financing, to merger, acquisition, or IPO.
You can read more about the firm here: https://piercekwok.com/
Tokyo
via our partner firm, Masuvalley & Partners
Masuvalley and Partners is an Asian intellectual property firm offering specialised services in all areas of intellectual property including patents, trademarks and designs. They also offer services pertaining to various searches relating to novelty, validity, judicial precedents and litigation matters.
You can read more about the firm here: https://masuvalley.net
Agency Support
We are also able to separately offer to clients on request direct agency support via our sister company, Ubuuru, who boast a number of creative freelancers on their books and within their network. If this is of interest, please contact and engage info@ubuuru.com directly.
Our Thinking
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