Ethan Ezra

Associate

Ethan advises clients on a variety of intellectual property (both contentious and non-contentious), commercial contracts, and information law matters. His clients include higher education institutions, cultural organisations, businesses, and schools.

Ethan’s work ranges from advising on large commercial ventures to standalone queries on focused areas of law. Overall, he has strong experience helping clients navigate the day-to-day queries which arise as part of their commercial operations.

As well as assisting with more conventional intellectual property (IP), information and commercial contracts work, Ethan also enjoys advising clients on complex and often unusual areas of law, including sensitive freedom of information requests, copyright/moral rights issues, cultural property management matters, and contract law queries.

Expertise

Higher Education

Ethan advises several high-profile higher education clients on a variety of IP&C matters. These include standard contracts for goods and services (including software as a service), research collaborations, freedom of information (FOI) matters (from preliminary requests to hearings), international expansions, Office for Students (OfS) regulation, and data protection queries. More recently, Ethan has advised higher education (and other) clients on the rise of AI and how this may impact their ongoing operations and IP ownership. Ethan has also been on secondment at the London Business School as the School’s in-house legal counsel.

Cultural Organisations

Ethan has assisted some of the country’s top cultural institutions on their event contracts, digitisation projects, and cultural property handling and due diligence. A recent highlight has been advising a museum client on the proposed acquisition of a dinosaur skeleton, which covered several IP and commercial considerations. Ethan also has experience with art loan and exhibition agreements and has worked on high value classical and modern artwork loans.

Private Businesses

Ethan regularly advises the firm’s business clients. In particular, this work covers business to business (B2B) and business to consumer (B2C) contracts (including drafting and ongoing management), consumer law, personal data transfers (often involving an overseas jurisdiction), data subject access requests, and IP exploitation (especially trade marks).