We advise on all the legal and related issues involved in the development, production and exploitation of feature films and we pride ourselves on always giving comprehensive, practical and relevant advice that meets our clients’ commercial needs.

Our clients range from individual producers to financiers, distributors and exhibitors, and we are happy working across all genres and at all budget levels.

Specific areas of work include: drafting and advising on option agreements, writers agreements and first overhead deals; advising on structuring coproductions, shareholder agreements, joint ventures and EIS, equity finance and bank financing (both pre-sales and debt); drafting and negotiating all talent agreements, including director, producer, artist and composer agreements; chain of title and clearance reports; advising on sales agency agreements and distribution deals.