Film & television solicitors

No. 1 ranked firm for Media & Entertainment (Legal 500 2009).

Sean Egan ranked as a leading individual in both Chambers and Partners 2010 for Film & TV Finance and Production and Legal 500 2009 for Media & Entertainment.

We provide services across a wide range of industries advising broadcasters, film and television producers and distributors, agents and talent, film financing, and music, sponsorship, and advertising.

We increasingly advise on television formats and the development of TV projects.

You will find our enthusiasm refreshing as well as our ability to assess issues from a film and programme-maker's point of view.

Film

• Film financing
• Co-productions and other financing structures
• Underlying agreements
• Option and writer agreements
• Content and issues
• Author agreements and agreements with other production personnel
• Music licences, clearances and soundtrack deals
• Sales agency and distribution agreements
• Merchandising and ancillary exploitation

Television

• Agreements with broadcasters
• Format deals, writer and underlying rights agreements
• Regulatory advice – sponsorship and advertising
• Presenter agreements
• Distribution agreements and online rights exploitation
• Setting up independent television production companies
• Work permit related advice and other immigration issues
• Worker rights: freelancers and employees

“unfailingly helpful and supportive”… “great background knowledge” Legal 500, 2009.