Responsibilities

• Negotiate and draftcontracts forallaspects of motion pictureand television content development and production.
• This will include allabove-the-linecontracts: talent engagement,co-production arrangements, rights acquisition and licensing.
• Review, perfect and approve chain of title on developments and productions with a view to assess and minimize risk. Review and track third party obligations with respect to licensing of adaptation rights including film remake rights.
• Review scripts and content for pre-development and pre-exploitation clearances with IP and other third-party rights.
• Negotiate and draftliterary works option and purchase contracts, rights acquisition and licensing contracts.
• Negotiate and draft rights sale and licensing contracts for exploitation of content through all modes and platforms and output deals.
• Negotiate and draft all contracts pertaining to marketing and promotion of content produced and/or distributed including in-film product placements, co-branding etc.
• Negotiate and draft all manner of assignments,releases, contingent compensation definitions and standard definitions,settlement agreements etc.
• Contractexecution, administration and management.
• Liaise with Head Office Legal Team in Los Angeles.
• Maintain and update status reports on ongoing projects by collating updates received from all departments.
• Research and preparenecessarybackground information and counsel briefing and internal notes forlitigation preparation.
• Research related to contract laws, arbitration laws,privacyrights,copyrightlaws,internationalsubsidies, tax credits,guild requirements and related matters and circulating notes on key developments impacting business to keep the team abreast of all relevant information.
• Perform other relatedduties as assigned.

Qualifications

• LLB froma reputed institute.
• Minimum 7 years’experience in entertainment law preferably motion pictureand television financing, production and exploitation.
• Mustbeproficient in Microsoft Word.
• Must have excellent negotiation and communication skills (written and oral).
• Additionallanguageskills will be an advantage.

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