Overview
Senior Manager/VP, Business & Legal Affairs Jobs in City of Edinburgh, UK at Fulwell73 Limited
Location: City of Edinburgh
Senior Manager/VP, Business & Legal Affairs
Department: Business & Legal Affairs
Employment Type: Permanent
Location: London, Islington
Reporting To: Donall Crehan
Role Description
Fulwell Entertainment is seeking a Senior Manager or VP, Business & Legal Affairs (depending on experience) to join its London-based team, reporting to the General Counsel. This role sits within a transatlantic Legal & Business Affairs function spanning London, New York, and Los Angeles. The position works across Fulwell’s full range of activities, including its Studio division (scripted and unscripted content for global buyers), owned and operated You Tube channels, brand partnerships, and collaborations with high-profile talent, while also partnering closely with internal teams such as Production, Strategy & Operations, Talent Relations, Post-Production, IT, Finance, and People Operations.
The Senior Manager/VP will lead the structuring, drafting, and negotiation of a wide range of commercial and rights agreements, including commissioning, licensing, distribution, talent, co-production, and rights acquisition deals, working closely with the US based BLA team. In addition, the role oversees Fulwell’s global corporate legal function, including entity management, intragroup transactions, M&A activity, dispute resolution, IP protection, and real estate matters.
As part of an AI-forward legal team, the Senior Manager/VP will also drive adoption of AI tools (including Harvey), developing workflows, improving efficiency, and ensuring the business remains at the forefront of legal innovation in the media and entertainment sector.
Key Responsibilities
- With a primary focus on the UK market (and with the support of the US BLA team on US transactions), structuring, drafting and negotiating a broad range of deals efficiently and collaboratively to a high standard across the full breadth of Fulwell’s business, including: commissioning agreements with broadcasters and streamers, distribution agreements with third party financiers, other financier agreements, production agreements and deals with third party rights holders, talent and contributor agreements (including on- and off-screen talent across scripted and unscripted productions), access agreements, development agreements, co-production deals, first-look deals, location agreements, writer agreements, director agreements, producer agreements, option and book licence agreements, format and other underlying rights agreements, brand partnership and sponsorship agreements, and digital platform/You Tube channel agreements.
- Ownership of all business and legal affairs aspects of production across both traditional studio commissions, owned and operated channels and brand programming, including keeping abreast of and advising on relevant guild and union agreements, and platform-specific terms of service and policies (including You Tube/Google partner policies).
- Responsibility for ensuring relevant legislative and policy information is passed to appropriate internal contacts and translated into practical changes of process and contracts, anticipating any legal and rights concerns and offering solutions to resolve these challenges.
- Advising on and supporting the Company’s brand sales and brand partnership function, including structuring and negotiating sponsorship, branded content, and commercial partnership agreements.
- Supporting Fulwell’s strategic partnerships function, including advising on joint venture, co-investment, and other strategic collaboration arrangements.
- Supporting and advising on talent relations matters, including structuring talent deals, managing ongoing talent relationships from a legal perspective, and advising on talent-related IP and rights issues.
- Providing “legalling” services (supported by outside clearance specialist in the UK and US) in relation to programming, advising in particular on fair dealing/fair use, Ofcom Broadcasting Code, defamation, contempt of court and other possible third party claims/compliance issues.
- Providing general commercial and legal advice in a cogent and well-structured manner, particularly in relation to copyright, trademarks, clearance…
Title: Senior Manager/VP, Business & Legal Affairs
Company: Fulwell73 Limited
Location: City of Edinburgh, UK
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