Taylor Oballa Murray Leyland LLP
Automatically compiled listing. Details may contain errors.9 lawyers · Established 2006 · City of Toronto
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About Taylor Oballa Murray Leyland LLP
Taylor Oballa Murray Leyland LLP is a Toronto entertainment and media law firm that also serves clients in Vancouver and elsewhere in Canada. Chris Taylor started the firm in March 2006, after running Last Gang, an independent record company that helped develop artists including Metric, Death From Above 1979, and Crystal Castles. In 2016, Taylor moved on to Entertainment One and passed the firm to its current partners, whose names it now carries.
The firm's nine lawyers work out of an office in Liberty Village and represent musicians, record companies, film and television producers, authors, and other creative professionals on transactional work such as recording, publishing, financing, and intellectual property agreements. Several partners bring their own industry backgrounds to the practice. Pat Leyland played guitar and co-wrote songs in a band signed to Arista Records before joining the firm at its founding, and Safwan Javed still drums for and co-manages Wide Mouth Mason, a Juno-nominated band Javed co-founded in 1995.
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In the community
- Partner Miro Oballa co-founded ADVANCE, Canada's Black Music Business Collective, and has also been a board member of CARAS, the Polaris Music Prize, and the Canadian Live Music Association.
- Partner Doug Murray is a director of the Canadian Comedy Hall of Fame and a board member of the Canadian Comedy Foundation for Excellence, and previously sat on ACTRA's National Commercial Agreement negotiating committee and its Agency Agreement Committee.
- Partner Safwan Javed is president of Fair Trade Music International and serves on the boards of the Songwriters Association of Canada and Canada's Music Incubator.
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149 East Liberty Street, Suite 286, Toronto, Ontario, M6K 0H7, Canada · 416-537-1529
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