Lawrence Engel

Senior Partner, Music

Lawrence is the firm’s Senior Partner and is a member of our highly regarded Music Group. An exceptional and highly respected lawyer, Lawrence advises some of the world’s most successful artists, managers, entertainment industry executives and their companies.  He is internationally recognised as a leading practitioner within the music industry.

Lawrence has deep experience across all aspects of the music and wider entertainment industries and is commended for his ability to deliver incisive and comprehensive advice. Clients value his clarity, decisiveness and practical approach. He enjoys the variety of his practice, which spans from providing media-sensitive advice to global stars, acting as a trusted adviser for clients’ core operations, to advising on complex cross-industry transactions.

Chambers & Partners, which praises his “phenomenal practice”, ranks Lawrence in Band 1, while The Legal 500 includes him in its Hall of Fame.

Lawrence serves as a trustee on the board of Teenage Cancer Trust. He started his legal career in 1994 and joined Lee & Thompson in 2009 having previously co-founded and run his own law firm.

“He has a phenomenal practice.”
Chambers & Partners