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KANAVAL - Artistry in Law
KANAVAL - Artistry in Law
Structure your deals with confidence
Drawing on extensive commercial experience, we draft and negotiate contracts that protect your interests, mitigate risk, and foster strong, lasting business relationships.
Safeguard your intellectual property rights
Our seasoned intellectual property experts help protect your creations, maximise their creative and commercial value, and uphold your rights.
Strategic support for every stage
Whether establishing a company, securing investment, or pursuing a merger, we provide the legal insight and strategic guidance essential for your business’s sustainable growth.
Introducing
At Kanaval, we are more than legal practitioners — we are passionate advocates for the creative industries. Dedicated to empowering entrepreneurs and businesses across film, television, music, fashion, visual arts, digital & tech, we provide bespoke legal advice and practical insights that ensure your vision is realised and your creative endeavours are protected.
Services
Creative industries need creative lawyers — that’s where we come in.
From protecting intellectual property to structuring commercial deals, we support entrepreneurs and businesses in film, TV, music, fashion, digital and tech to move forward with confidence.
We take care of the legal, so you can focus on what you do best.
Some of our clients & collaborators
Insights
Create. Protect. Grow.
Let’s discuss how we can protect your ideas, strengthen your contracts, and power your growth.
Testimonials
We recently had the pleasure of working with Kanaval Consultancy for two different legal requirements. From the outset, Rory and the team exhibited a down-to-earth approach to the task with professionalism and dedication. There was full transparency regarding costs and an unwavering commitment to delivery. In an industry where clarity and trustworthiness are paramount, Kanaval Consultancy stands as a beacon of excellence. We wholeheartedly recommend their services to anyone seeking legal assistance.
The Angus Tap & Grind
Thanks to Kanaval, and in particular Rory, who prepared and successfully concluded a trade mark application on behalf of Baltic Creative CIC. They took care of the entire process from start to finish and provided invaluable guidance throughout – an absolute pleasure to deal with.
Baltic Creative
We have worked with Rory on our business legal needs and have found him to be knowledgeable, understanding, and patient. His prices are very reasonable, and he really does take the time to understand your business needs. We highly recommend Rory and Kanaval Consultancy.
Urban Paws
Working with Rory at Kanaval has been a pleasure. His attention to detail, diligence, expertise and understanding of our needs has led us through a complicated legal process with ease. We would not hesitate to recommend Kanaval and look forward to working with them in the future to develop our contracts and assist in our legal needs.
Focal Studios
Working with Rory and Kanaval Consultancy was the best experience we’ve had of someone listening to and understanding our business problems and then delivering effective and structured IP and commercial law insights. They are definitely our first choice in the future for any commercial or IP law-related queries.
Cleversteam
We highly recommend Rory from Kanaval Consultancy. His expertise, professionalism, and clear communication made our experience smooth and stress-free. Rory’s attention to detail and prompt responsiveness ensured our project was handled efficiently. With his support and guidance, he helped facilitate a favourable outcome. If you’re seeking reliable legal services, we wholeheartedly endorse Rory at Kanaval Consultancy for his work.
Dock
Kanaval made the process of getting our trade marks for our products really simple and easy. Dealing with Rory is like dealing with a friend, no waffle and straight to the point to get the job sorted. When one trade mark was contested Rory explained the potential issue, suggested the solution, made a call to the other party and had the issue sorted the same day.
Floorscan Acoustics
We had a fantastic experience working with Rory at Kanaval on our artist performance contracts and would highly recommend his services to anyone in the arts and music industry looking for professional yet personable guidance.
Africa Oye Festival
Rory at Kanaval was consistently helpful in advising the company on how best to register unique furniture designs. We have now successfully registered multiple designs quickly and with ease with the professional guidance of Kanaval. Highly recommend if you are looking for a firm that is both personable and efficient with a workable budget for a small business.
Ensemblier
Working with Rory from Kanaval Consultancy has been a 100% positive experience - highly recommended! We are not very knowledgeable about trade marks, but Rory broke it all down and managed our application from start to finish, including dealing with some opposition to the application. The guidance we received from Rory was communicated with excellent clarity and we were incredibly impressed by the thorough and diligent approach to the opposition. It’s thanks to this that our trade mark was successfully granted, without any compromise. Thank you.
Travelins
We have used Rory Taylor from Kanaval Consultancy on multiple occasions in relation to various IP matters. Our business spans many global regions with some complex IP laws to navigate and Rory has always gone above and beyond to provide sage advice which is clear and concise. We would highly recommend Rory and Kanaval Consultancy to any company who has a requirement for intellectual property advice and guidance.
Tokyo Time
Rory’s greatest strength is his ability to really take the time to listen to and fully understand our project. He made us feel really valued and demonstrated excellent interpersonal skills throughout. The end result was a piece of work delivered to the highest standard. We would highly recommend Rory and his approach has helped to form a long term working relationship as our company grows in the future.
Freedom2Move
Rory is a true professional and very personable. He took his time to explain the legal jargon to us several times until we understood the work and only then did he produce the final document. Highly, highly recommended.
Hot Fishin'
Working with Kin was a straightforward and ultimately successful experience. He led us through the contracts process explaining the major points that we had to consider and communicated these sometimes complex clauses with a simple clarity that we could easily understand. We were impressed by his diligent and thorough approach allied with his respectful and polite manner when dealing with our future clients.
Troika Arts
We have worked with Kin on a selection of issues with regard to our hospitality sites. He was brilliant, structured and took the time to explain how we were following best practices but also what that meant for us. Having someone with specialist knowledge of law and also real life hospitality scenarios makes such a difference when working in this market as there was future problems he was able to foresee and able to build in protection to our paperwork to help make future life easier. It was wonderful working with him, he gave proficient clear good advice, and we would definitely work with him again.
Sub Rosa
Working with Rory and Kanaval Consultancy to negotiate a licensing agreement has been a great experience. He was professional and efficient whilst also taking the time to really understand the project. He really went above and beyond to make sure a fair deal was negotiated, and I am very thankful he was able to meet my budget as an up-and-coming musician. I really recommend working with Kanaval, especially if you are a musician who is starting out – I learnt a lot from Rory.
Sara Wolff
Rory was a great help to us discussing and analysing record contracts. He talked through things in a way that put us at ease and helped to demystify the process. Plus, he's a big music fan as well as a legal person, so that made all the difference!
Clinic
I was referred to Rory by some friends of mine, they mentioned how knowledgeable, professional, and reliable he was. They weren’t wrong. I had some really good chats with Rory about my requirements and how fast I needed them. He gave some brilliant advice and kept me in the loop at all times. He got everything done quickly and created some really good documents which fit my needs perfectly. Safe to say, I will be coming back to Rory again in the future for my legal needs. Thank you so much, top notch service.
Focused Minds Creative
Rory is a highly experienced and knowledgeable legal practitioner and was a calm and patient influence in getting us through our issue. He's also a pleasure to work with and we would highly recommend him.
Fan Film
Testimonials
We recently had the pleasure of working with Kanaval Consultancy for two different legal requirements. From the outset, Rory and the team exhibited a down-to-earth approach to the task with professionalism and dedication. There was full transparency regarding costs and an unwavering commitment to delivery. In an industry where clarity and trustworthiness are paramount, Kanaval Consultancy stands as a beacon of excellence. We wholeheartedly recommend their services to anyone seeking legal assistance.
The Angus Tap & Grind
Thanks to Kanaval, and in particular Rory, who prepared and successfully concluded a trade mark application on behalf of Baltic Creative CIC. They took care of the entire process from start to finish and provided invaluable guidance throughout – an absolute pleasure to deal with.
Baltic Creative
We have worked with Rory on our business legal needs and have found him to be knowledgeable, understanding, and patient. His prices are very reasonable, and he really does take the time to understand your business needs. We highly recommend Rory and Kanaval Consultancy.
Urban Paws
Working with Rory at Kanaval has been a pleasure. His attention to detail, diligence, expertise and understanding of our needs has led us through a complicated legal process with ease. We would not hesitate to recommend Kanaval and look forward to working with them in the future to develop our contracts and assist in our legal needs.
Focal Studios
Working with Rory and Kanaval Consultancy was the best experience we’ve had of someone listening to and understanding our business problems and then delivering effective and structured IP and commercial law insights. They are definitely our first choice in the future for any commercial or IP law-related queries.
Cleversteam
We highly recommend Rory from Kanaval Consultancy. His expertise, professionalism, and clear communication made our experience smooth and stress-free. Rory’s attention to detail and prompt responsiveness ensured our project was handled efficiently. With his support and guidance, he helped facilitate a favourable outcome. If you’re seeking reliable legal services, we wholeheartedly endorse Rory at Kanaval Consultancy for his work.
Dock
Kanaval made the process of getting our trade marks for our products really simple and easy. Dealing with Rory is like dealing with a friend, no waffle and straight to the point to get the job sorted. When one trade mark was contested Rory explained the potential issue, suggested the solution, made a call to the other party and had the issue sorted the same day.
Floorscan Acoustics
We had a fantastic experience working with Rory at Kanaval on our artist performance contracts and would highly recommend his services to anyone in the arts and music industry looking for professional yet personable guidance.
Africa Oye Festival
Rory at Kanaval was consistently helpful in advising the company on how best to register unique furniture designs. We have now successfully registered multiple designs quickly and with ease with the professional guidance of Kanaval. Highly recommend if you are looking for a firm that is both personable and efficient with a workable budget for a small business.
Ensemblier
Working with Rory from Kanaval Consultancy has been a 100% positive experience - highly recommended! We are not very knowledgeable about trade marks, but Rory broke it all down and managed our application from start to finish, including dealing with some opposition to the application. The guidance we received from Rory was communicated with excellent clarity and we were incredibly impressed by the thorough and diligent approach to the opposition. It’s thanks to this that our trade mark was successfully granted, without any compromise. Thank you.
Travelins
We have used Rory Taylor from Kanaval Consultancy on multiple occasions in relation to various IP matters. Our business spans many global regions with some complex IP laws to navigate and Rory has always gone above and beyond to provide sage advice which is clear and concise. We would highly recommend Rory and Kanaval Consultancy to any company who has a requirement for intellectual property advice and guidance.
Tokyo Time
Rory’s greatest strength is his ability to really take the time to listen to and fully understand our project. He made us feel really valued and demonstrated excellent interpersonal skills throughout. The end result was a piece of work delivered to the highest standard. We would highly recommend Rory and his approach has helped to form a long term working relationship as our company grows in the future.
Freedom2Move
Rory is a true professional and very personable. He took his time to explain the legal jargon to us several times until we understood the work and only then did he produce the final document. Highly, highly recommended.
Hot Fishin'
Working with Kin was a straightforward and ultimately successful experience. He led us through the contracts process explaining the major points that we had to consider and communicated these sometimes complex clauses with a simple clarity that we could easily understand. We were impressed by his diligent and thorough approach allied with his respectful and polite manner when dealing with our future clients.
Troika Arts
We have worked with Kin on a selection of issues with regard to our hospitality sites. He was brilliant, structured and took the time to explain how we were following best practices but also what that meant for us. Having someone with specialist knowledge of law and also real life hospitality scenarios makes such a difference when working in this market as there was future problems he was able to foresee and able to build in protection to our paperwork to help make future life easier. It was wonderful working with him, he gave proficient clear good advice, and we would definitely work with him again.
Sub Rosa
Working with Rory and Kanaval Consultancy to negotiate a licensing agreement has been a great experience. He was professional and efficient whilst also taking the time to really understand the project. He really went above and beyond to make sure a fair deal was negotiated, and I am very thankful he was able to meet my budget as an up-and-coming musician. I really recommend working with Kanaval, especially if you are a musician who is starting out – I learnt a lot from Rory.
Sara Wolff
Rory was a great help to us discussing and analysing record contracts. He talked through things in a way that put us at ease and helped to demystify the process. Plus, he's a big music fan as well as a legal person, so that made all the difference!
Clinic
I was referred to Rory by some friends of mine, they mentioned how knowledgeable, professional, and reliable he was. They weren’t wrong. I had some really good chats with Rory about my requirements and how fast I needed them. He gave some brilliant advice and kept me in the loop at all times. He got everything done quickly and created some really good documents which fit my needs perfectly. Safe to say, I will be coming back to Rory again in the future for my legal needs. Thank you so much, top notch service.
Focused Minds Creative
Rory is a highly experienced and knowledgeable legal practitioner and was a calm and patient influence in getting us through our issue. He's also a pleasure to work with and we would highly recommend him.
Fan Film