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Business & Legal Affairs Role
An internationally recognised entertainment and streaming company is looking for an experienced Business & Legal Affairs person to join a team responsible for supporting their scripted series commissioned and/or produced in the UK on a short-term basis (6 months) to cover a parental leave.
Responsibilities
- Working both as lead and/or alongside other BLA team members on a wide range of business and legal affairs matters during the life cycle of a scripted series
- Commercially negotiating and drafting development and commissioning agreements with third party production companies
- Commercially negotiating and drafting talent agreements including writer, director, producer and cast agreements
- Drafting and commercially negotiating and/or reviewing underlying rights agreements and advising on any commercial/legal issues arising from chain of title review
- Working with production teams to ensure legal paperwork is in compliance with the company's requirements and to assist in any production related queries that arise
- Working alongside third party production companies
- Seeking and analysing specialist advice from a variety of internal legal teams
- Liaising with cross functional teams to ensure alignment and efficient information flow
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Candidate Profile
- 8+ years of relevant experience in a media law firm, film or television production company or broadcaster and ideally English law qualified
- Working knowledge of the UK television production landscape, industry norms and union agreements (including differences between US and UK guilds)
- Experience leading deal negotiations and drafting contracts with some or all of the following: rights acquisition, writers, directors, cast, producers, production partners or broadcasters
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
- Comfortable counseling business partners and making decisions that have both legal and business impacts
- Strong analytical capabilities and judgment
- Ability to work proactively, independently and reliably under tight timeframes in a fast-paced environment
- Ability to work effectively and collaboratively cross-functionally, think practically and be solution-oriented
- Curiosity, resilience and willingness to tackle matters outside area of expertise
- Commitment to embrace and advocate for inclusion.
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Our clients are committed to inclusion and diversity; are proud to provide equal opportunity workplaces; and on their behalf, we will evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, religion or belief, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or gender assignment, marital or civil partnership status, disability, pregnancy, childbirth or any other characteristic protected by law.
Application Process
Interested candidates should send their CV to Nick Wasserman for consideration. All successful candidates will be contacted within 5 working days of application. Due to the high volume of applications we receive, though, we are not always able to respond directly to everyone, but we will try our very best.
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