Experience

Warner Bros. International Television Production UK

• Broadcast Media Production and Distribution
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Senior Legal and Business Affairs Executive

  • Jun 2021 - Present

  Within the Warner Bros. International TV Production team, I have been the senior production lawyer mainly responsible for Renegade Pictures, working directly with the CEO and Director of Productions. In this role I provided production legal and business affairs advice for factual documentaries such as: 'Coca Cola's 100 Billion Bottle Problem' and 'AIDS: The Unheard Tapes' both for BBC, 'Children of Ukraine' for ITV and 'Help! My Home is Disgusting' for C4, plus factual entertainment programmes such as 'Car SOS' for Nat Geo, 'Save Our Squad with David Beckham' for Disney+ and 'Ben Fogle's New Lives in the Wild' and 'Our Yorkshire Farm' both for C5. o Negotiated and advised on production agreements for contributors, presenters and talent, access and locations, consultant and production services agreements. o Advised production teams on rights issues, copyright clearance, and compliance with the OFCOM Broadcasting Code and broadcaster policies; o Advised on broadcaster’s terms of trade and availability of rights, and negotiated the terms of commissioning and development agreements; o Negotiated and advised on production financing arrangements and tax credits suitability; o Prepared guidance notes in relation to areas such as child licensing, filming in hostile environments, data protection and duty of care policies for contributors; o Carried out programme legal and compliance viewings; o Responsible for allocating legal and BA workload amongst junior colleagues, corporate legal teams and external counsel; and o Conducting production ‘set up’ meetings to advise teams on legal and compliance issues that may be relevant during production and to communicate company policies.


Sky Studios
• United Kingdom
• Broadcast Media Production and Distribution
• 1 - 100 Employee
• Legal Counsel - Commissioning

  • Jun 2020 - May 2021


Endemol Shine UK

• United Kingdom
• Media Production
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Senior Legal and Business Affairs Executive (Dragonfly and DSP)

  • Jul 2018 - Jun 2020

• Senior / Legal and Business Affairs Executive (Shine TV)

  • Jul 2015 - Jul 2018


Optomen Television
• United Kingdom
• Broadcast Media Production and Distribution
• 1 - 100 Employee
• Legal and Business Affairs Executive

  • Sep 2011 - Jul 2015

Davenport Lyons
• United Kingdom
• Law Practice
• 1 - 100 Employee
• Trainee Solicitor

  • Sep 2009 - Aug 2011

HIT Entertainment
• Brazil
• Advertising Services
• 1 - 100 Employee
• Trainee Legal Counsel - Secondment

  • Sep 2010 - Mar 2011

Slaughter and May
• United Kingdom
• Law Practice
• 700 & Above Employee
• Litigation Paralegal

  • Sep 2008 - Aug 2009

PDP
• United States
• Computers and Electronics Manufacturing
• 1 - 100 Employee
• Sub-Editor/Production Editor

  • Jun 2007 - Aug 2008

Wolters Kluwer Law & Business
• United States
• Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee
• Production Editor

  • Jun 2005 - Sep 2006