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Alexander is a well-known media and entertainment lawyer in the UK and is recognised in particular for his expertise in the licensing and distribution of music in the online and mobile environment. Alexander also advises on a wide range of issues in the technology sector, specialist copyright issues, e-commerce, book publishing, theatre rights, promotions and photography. Alexander has been commended in the Legal 500 for his "extremely deep industry knowledge" and "robust and persistent negotiating style".
Record labels, music industry bodies, publishers and technology companies.
During the course of his career Alexander has been at the cutting edge of the music industry's venture into new media and has gathered an enviable client roster. He is one of the relatively few experts on international rights licensing in the online environment, and he also advises on all issues facing technology companies.
Alexander lectures as an authority on new media issues and is a regular panelist and moderator at Midem, Popkomm, and other conferences. He writes regularly on music and copyright issues and his articles have appeared in European Intellectual Property Review, Entertainment Law Review and International Media Law. He writes an occasional column for the music industry magazine Five Eight.
Alexander is on the Executive Committee of the International Association of Entertainment Lawyers and moderates the Association's legal panel at Midem each year. He is also a member of the British Literary and Artistic Copyright Association.
• Educated at Westminster School and gained a BA (Hons) in Classical and Medieval Literature and Latin at Sussex University.
• Trained at Theodore Goddard (now Addleshaw Goddard) and qualified there as a solicitor in 1995.
• Joined Wiggin & Co as a partner in 2004.
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