Our Practice

Our firm provides legal advice on all aspects of corporate and entertainment law, with an emphasis on film and television financing and production, and on the corporate, employment intellectual property, and immigration issues arising in this industry. We also offer expertise in technology start - ups, music law, book publishing and new media.  

• Lenders
• Producers
• Broadcasters
• Writers
• Technology Companies
• Composers
• Music Producers
• Music Publishers
• Talent
• Senior employees

• Acting for both lenders and producers, large and small
• Security searches and registrations
• Loan agreements, 
• Security agreements, 
• Intercreditor agreements

• Share and asset purchases
• Due diligence services in connection with these transactions
• Debt and equity financing
• Expertise in public and private company complianc

• Incorporations
• Amalgamations
• Dissolutions
• Shareholder agreements
• Compliance in Ontario and Canada

• Option agreements
• Writers agreements
• Development financing

• Domestic production
• Inter-provincial co-productions
• International co-productions
• Co-ventures
• Accessing Content and Production Services Tax credits
• CAVCO and CRTC Regulation
• Completion guarantees
• Errors and Omissions review
• Rights of Publicity
• Above the Line Negotiations
• Canadian and American guild requirements
• On Air Talent Representation

• Broadcast license agreements
• Distribution agreements
• Collection agency agreements 

• Copyright
• Trademarks

Representing senior employees in:

• Negotiation of employment agreements
• Review of termination packages

Representing Companies and their senior management teams in their 

• Negotiation of employment agreements
• Structuring of termination packages

• Composer agreements
• Recording agreements
• Publishing agreements
• Producer agreements
• Music clearances