Heather de Allende

Senior Associate
Music

+44 20 3206 2839
Email Heather
heather.deallende@smb.london
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Heather is a Senior Associate in the Music team, advising a diverse range of clients.

Heather offers a broad suite of business affairs services, tailored to each client’s needs from time to time. She advises client companies of varying sizes, from independent labels, publishers and management companies, to global music companies.

Heather also acts for talent and executive clients, including recording artists, songwriters, producers, composers (including composers for Film & TV), A&Rs and managers.

Her work covers a wide range of commercial, recording and music publishing agreements, alongside corporate matters such as joint ventures.

Heather brings a well-rounded industry perspective, shaped by in-house roles across the commercial, recording and publishing divisions of both major and independent music businesses. This experience underpins her pragmatic approach to supporting clients across the creative and commercial sides of their business.

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  • ‘Heather de Allende is a genius and a wizard lawyer who is very particular and has a lot of attention to detail. I love working with her and most importantly she is very fast to turn things around.’

    Legal 500, 2025