Ian Penman (Partner)
Ian Penman, one of the founding partners of New Media Law, is a solicitor specialising in Media & Entertainment. Ian works with a wide range of high profile clients within the internet, television, film, music, gaming, software and publishing industries, as well as other commercial organisations in related sectors.
Ian provides clients with specialist media advice in areas such as Copyright, Intellectual Property Rights, Trade Marks, Licensing, Distribution and Production as well as providing overall commercial advice in areas such as Employment Law, Mergers and Acquisitions, Libel and Slander, Litigation and Corporate and Commercial Agreements.
Ian prides himself on being a "commercial media and entertainment lawyer", with a focus on each client's business which is unusally sympathetic for most lawyers. Whilst Ian has been a full time lawyer since joining DLA in 1994, he spent some 10 years in the entertainment business prior to taking his law degree at the University of London. It is perhaps because he instructed many lawyers as a client first, that he particularly understands what clients want and what they are happily prepared to pay for. As a professional keyboard player, he is quite possibly the only lawyer in the World to have appeared (in his twenties) on Top of the Pops several times and the TV show 'Wogan' twice in one week with two different groups (with Dan Hartman and John Parr, for the trainspotters amongst you). Ian crossed over to law in 1990 when he became (at 28) too old to prance about on stage any more after working in record production (Ian was one of the owners of London Bridge Recording Studios in the late 80's where artists as diverse as Robert Plant, Bros and some of the Eastenders stars recorded), artist management and music publishing. At DLA he became known as an expert in the Internet and e-commerce (joining the advisory board of ICANN), and has continued to specialise in New Media (notably in music, film and television sectors) since co founding New Media Law in January 2002.
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To see Ian's full CV (in pdf format) use the link below.
