Ed Baden-Powell
UK Guide 2025
Band 3 : Media & Entertainment: Music: Non-contentious
Band 3
About
Provided by Ed Baden-Powell
Practice Areas
Ed is a Partner in the Commercial group and advises on all aspects of commercial contracts and intellectual property.
His focus is on providing the firm’s corporate and entrepreneur clients with advice on their key business and operational contracts and, in particular, high-value services agreements, outsourcing arrangements, and brand protection and rights-exploitation arrangements.
Ed has particular experience in acting for clients in the entertainment and media sector, including a number of leading global rights-owners, sports bodies and entertainers, and advising on a broad range of contracts within the media and sports industries, including live events. He also works closely with the firm’s Corporate team on acquisitions, joint ventures and commercial franchising across a range of sectors.
Before qualifying as a solicitor in the City, Ed worked in the music industry and founded his own production company, winning a MOBO award for best producer and producing several platinum records, including with Seal and Shola Ama.
Ed contributes to Copinger & Skone James on Copyright and Practical Commercial Precedents published by Sweet & Maxwell and is on the editorial board of Entertainment Law Review.
Chambers Review
UK
Ed Baden-Powell advises music industry and wider media clients on IP, franchise and catalogue licensing, and contracts of all kinds. He is also recommended for advice on corporate acquisitions and joint ventures.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Ed is a music industry expert. He's highly intelligent and very reliable."
"Ed is probably the most sophisticated but approachable adviser on copyright and general IP rights issues I have ever dealt with."
"Ed is brilliant. He is a very clever lawyer."
"Ed is a music industry expert. He's highly intelligent and very reliable."
"Ed is probably the most sophisticated but approachable adviser on copyright and general IP rights issues I have ever dealt with."
"Ed is brilliant. He is a very clever lawyer."