Raffaella De Santis has over a decade of experience at the cutting edge of Digital and Traditional Media advising some of the world’s leading media and technology companies, artists, creators, rights-holders and brands.

Beginning her career as a reputation litigator with world-leading reputation law and advisory firm Schillings, she moved into media & entertainment, IP and commercial advisory work more broadly at the London Stock Exchange Group Plc, 7digital Group Plc, Harbottle & Lewis LLP and Level Law Ltd. 

Raffaella advises some of the leading artists, creators and digital and technology companies globally on legal and commercial strategy, and is the go-to advisor for many of the UK’s most innovative media, music and AI start and scale-ups. She specialises particularly in the fields of music, entertainment, digital media, technology, content creation, rights, and cutting-edge companies in the podcasting, live entertainment and AI fields. 

During her career she has been a trusted advisor to the likes of Queen, Madonna, Apple, Spotify, Global Citizen, the Virgin Group, Droga5, The Face, 7digital, Bandcamp and Pacemaker, as well as countless emerging and established artists, tech start-ups, podcast creators, record labels and music publishers.