Richard Baskind > Simons Muirhead Burton > London, England > Lawyer Profile
Simons Muirhead Burton Offices
87-91 Newman Street
LONDON
W1T 3EY
England
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Richard Baskind
Work Department
Music/media/commercial.
Position
Partner and head of Music. Specialising in all aspects of music and related businesses including established artists and songwriters, independent record labels, publishing companies and key industry executives, also experienced in handling music and related rights catalogue deals both from a commercial and corporate perspective. Key clients include major record companies and some of the most prominent independent publishing companies in the UK as well as many of the key executives within the industry.
Career
1996-98, trainee at Herbert Smith (including six month secondment at BskyB); 1998, solicitor at Thoedore Goddard in film department; 1999-2001, solicitor at Eatons solicitors (music department); 2001-04, solicitor at Mishcon de Reya (following merger with Eatons solicitors); 2004-11, managing director of Edge Legal Limited, a boutique music legal services practice.
Languages
French.
Education
Leeds Grammar School; Bristol University (1993, LLB); Bristol University (1994, LLM, international commercial law); College of Law, York (1995, LPC).
Leisure
Football, golf, music.
Lawyer Rankings
London > TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Media: Music
Recent work for Simons Muirhead Burton‘s music department has included sales and acquisitions of master recording and publishing catalogues, asset sales of recorded music rights, and joint venture arrangements. Practice head Richard Baskind specialises in all aspects of the music and entertainment sectors; his team includes corporate transactional expert Alasdair George and is a regular advisor to notable artists, composers, songwriters, labels, publishers, managers, executives and charities.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Crime, fraud and licensing > Crime: general
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Media: Theatre, publishing and other media
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Reputation management
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Media: Digital content & social
Firm Rankings
- Public sector > Civil liberties and human rights
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Media: Film & TV
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Media: Music
- Private client > Family
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Franchising
- Crime, fraud and licensing > Fraud: white-collar crime (advice to individuals)
- Corporate and commercial > M&A: Smaller Deals, £10m-£100m
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: mid-market
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Sport
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Intellectual property: trade marks, copyright and design