Film

We advise on all the legal and related issues involved in developing, producing, and exploiting feature ﬁlms, and we pride ourselves on always giving comprehensive, practical, and relevant advice that meets our clients’ commercial needs. We provide a full spectrum of legal services, which include:

Drafting and advising on option agreements
Writers’ agreements and ﬁrst overhead deals
Advising on structuring co-productions
Shareholder agreements
Joint ventures
Equity ﬁnance and bank ﬁnancing (both pre-sale and debt)
Drafting and negotiating talent agreements,
Including director, producer, artist and composer agreements
Chain of title and clearance reports.
Advising on sales agency agreements and distribution deals

When advising foreign clients, our firm can field a team of expert Japanese lawyers and foreign lawyers who have relevant experience and bi-cultural sensitivity. Our team can do business and draft documents in Japanese, English, German, Mandarin, Hindi, Korean, and Marathi, and provides services around the clock through our global affiliated offices.