The partners' shared interest in the arts in general and music in particular has resulted in rapid growth of this specialist area of our practice.

Areas of work include:

• Contractual arrangements
• Immigration & work permits
• Sponsorship agreements
• Agent / manager agreements

We represent a number of international opera singers and actors, including some of the greatest singers before the public today.

We are particularly associated with some arts institutions. We are the retained legal advisors to the Wigmore Hall, London's leading recital venue. Through our Woodbridge office we have a close association with the Aldeburgh Festival, where we have sponsored a recital by Dame Margaret Price, and the Belcea Quartet with Imogen Cooper.

On 22 April 2004 the firm put on a concert at the Riverside Theatre in Woodbridge at which the composer and concert pianist Ronan Magill gave a splendid recital. Ronan was one of the first pupils to study at the Yehudi Menuhin School and he later became a protégé of Benjamin Britten. He played music by Beethoven, Chopin and Debussy and finished with part of the Lizst’s transcription of the Liebestod from Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde.

Marshall Hatchick introduced private benefactors to the Wexford Festival Opera in 1997 and 1998, and established an annual bursary for young singers supported by a private client.

The concert launching of the Norbert Brainin Foundation at the Wigmore Hall in London which was sponsored by the firm was a critical success with laudatory articles appearing in The Times, and The Guardian. Keith Hatchick is a Trustee of the Foundation.