Secondment to a leading regional broadcaster based in Dubai as senior legal counsel, advising on all matters affecting the media organisation including
- Channel carriage agreements;
- Agreement for the organisation and sponsorship of an International Football Tournament;
- Software licence agreements; and
- Set top box supply and distribution agreements.
Secondment to leading global broadcaster based in Doha, Qatar, acting as in-house counsel and advising various internal business units on a range of agreements, including
- Content sale and acquisition agreements;
- Co-Production, production and commissioning agreements;
- Intellectual property infringement matters in relation to web, broadcast, and mobile content as well as trade mark infringement and domain name disputes;
- Agreements for the provision of audience research, measurement and analytical services;
- Talent agreements for producers / directors;
- Host broadcaster agreements for international athletics competition;
- Agreements for the design and on-going support of mobile and web-based applications.
Secondment to the client as primary in-house legal advisor on all matters relating to the multi-platform distribution of its broadcast rights of the English Premier League including
- Agreements relating to exploitation by encrypted satellite broadcast;
- Agreements related to the delivery of live matches via a web-platform as well as multi-territory delivery on a free to air, analogue and digital, terrestrial basis; and
- Agreements for simultaneous retransmission of encrypted satellite broadcasts on various other delivery platforms including by means of mobile telecommunications, IPTV and Cable.