Entertainment · Sports · Intellectual property
Cresthood Legal advises artists, rights holders, creative businesses, sports clients and designers across Nigeria and the United Kingdom.
A record outlives the session it was made in. A logo outlives the brief. An image right outlives the season. The agreements signed at the beginning decide who benefits when that happens — and most of them are signed quickly, under pressure, by people who were never shown what the terms actually meant.
We work at the point where culture meets commercial reality. That means reading the deal properly, explaining it in plain terms, and negotiating from a position that reflects what the work is genuinely worth.
Counsel across the life of a record and the career around it — from the first release to catalogue-level decisions.
Representation for athletes, agencies and the commercial partners who work with them.
Securing what you own, and acting when someone else uses it without permission.
For designers and studios whose output is the asset, not the by-product.
The deal you sign is the deal you live with.Cresthood Legal
Recording artists, songwriters and producers negotiating deals, splits and partnerships at every stage of a career.
Labels, publishers and catalogue owners managing acquisitions, licensing and enforcement.
Studios, agencies, production companies and platforms building commercial structures that scale.
Athletes, agencies and rights partners handling image rights, sponsorship and representation.
Industrial and creative designers protecting their work and structuring collaborations with brands.
Companies partnering with talent who need terms that are clear, enforceable and fair on both sides.
Music
Sports & talent
Industrial design
Creative companies
A selection, published with permission. Many of our matters are confidential and are not listed.
Nigerian creative work travels. Deals are signed in Lagos and performed in London, streamed everywhere, and litigated wherever the contract says they will be. We advise across both jurisdictions so the governing law clause is a decision rather than an afterthought.
That matters most when things go wrong — when a payment stops, a release is blocked, or a name turns up on someone else’s product.
Send a short note about the matter and we’ll come back to you on whether we can help and how we’d approach it.
