About

I'm a commercial lawyer advising a broad range of clients, with a specialism in the creative, media & entertainment, and advertising sectors. I love working with clients with big ideas and helping them to harness and exploit their IP and the content that they create.

My background is in the arts – I worked in theatre prior to becoming a solicitor and so I bring a real grassroots understanding of the creative economy to my practice.

My work spans the full lifecycle of creative and commercial projects – from advising on talent, production and the IP and regulatory frameworks that shape how content is made and distributed, to negotiating the media buying agreements that underpin its monetisation, and supporting catalogue transactions involving the acquisition and further exploitation of rights.

Beyond the creative industries, I advise on a wide range of complex commercial transactions including logistics agreements, supply of goods and services arrangements, and I also regularly support on corporate transactions.

I am pragmatic and commercially driven having spent time in-house on secondments to Lewis Silkin clients at the forefront of their industries including a major film and television studio, a video games services company, an independent media agency and a theatre.

I am recognised as a "key lawyer" by Legal 500 for Lewis Silkin in TMT: Media – video games.

Experience

Media & entertainment

  • Drafting and negotiating a wide variety of agreements including film and TV production, podcasts, journalism, publishing, and video games development
  • Negotiating talent agreements across film, television and digital media, including AI-specific provisions and advising on copyright and performers' rights in the context of AI and emerging technologies
  • Advising on broadcast and media regulation and standards, including the emerging regulatory framework for video-on-demand services

Advertising & marketing

  • Advising both independent and network creative and media agencies on their client / agency contracts with household name brands
  • Advising on ad clearance and on advertising regulations
  • Advising creative and media buying agencies on the use of AI in the ideation and production process

Complex commercial contracts

  • Logistics agreements with major third-party logistics providers
  • Catalogue transactions, including the acquisition and exploitation of rights in music and audio-visual media catalogues
  • Negotiating complex media buying agreements for leading independent and network media agencies, with experience spanning both agency-side and customer-side work, including advising on global media buying tenders and RFP processes

Corporate transactions

  • Providing commercial, IP, IT and data protection support on corporate transactions, including due diligence, and negotiation of SPA warranties, with particular experience in the creative services sector both buyer- and seller-side

Pro bono

  • Founder and Head of the Amicus Death Penalty Project at Lewis Silkin leading a team of over 50 volunteers from across the firm in assisting US attorneys and mitigation specialists with case work
  • Before beginning my training contract, I spent time as an Amicus intern in Baltimore, USA, where I worked with mitigation specialists on defence teams for indigent clients facing the death penalty

Services

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