Commissioning, Legal & Business Affairs Executive - Paramount - London, UK
(2025-05 - 2026-06)
- Comprehensively advise production companies on production-critical clearance paperwork, providing red-line responses on contributor, access, talent/VO, location and material releases to protect the interests of Channel 5 and Paramount.
- Successfully negotiate and draft production and commissioning agreements including PPAs, novations, acquisitions, assumptions, developments, programme finance agreements, production stand-downs/termination and amendments.
- Negotiate commercially sound costings and draft documentation for primary and secondary re-licences, licence period extensions and anonymisation reversions across Channel 5 and Milkshake services.
- Line-manage two colleagues to deliver time-sensitive Ofcom reporting, including the annual PSB Made Out Of London report and ongoing broadcast metadata validations.
Commissioning, Commercial Rights & Business Affairs Executive - BBC Scripted - London, UK
(2024-02 - 2025-05)
- Constructed and presented funding proposals for weekly greenlit Intention To Commission titles for directorial scrutiny; researching and articulating Barb CPVH audience data, tax credit eligibility, TX slots, synopses and Ofcom quota data.
- Negotiated and drafted a broad range of agreements with QI and NQI production companies and licensors for children's content across BBC platforms (linear, iPlayer VOD, YouTube, Sounds and live shows).
- Drafted Programme Production Agreements from ITCs and LOAs for new media deliverables incl. podcasts and props.
- Drafted acquisition agreements for pre-buy and off-the-shelf content, incl. YouTube promo clip usage and dubbed content.
- Drafted development agreement for pilot episodes, casting tapes, series outline and early writer treatments.
- Collaborated on the redrafting of the PSB's editable distribution template, centralising TV/VOD and DVD/DTO rights.
Rights Negotiations, Commercial Rights & Business Affairs Assistant - BBC Studios - London, UK
(2022-03 - 2024-02)
- Drafted licence extension agreements and led negotiations to renew film clip and still image licences with suppliers.
- Advised on calculated clearance costs to Sales teams, supporting large bundle sales across territories and platforms.
- Resolved documentation discrepancies on SOR, Silvermouse PasCs and music cues using strong QI/ NQI collaboration.
Production Management Internal Secondment - 2023 EBU Eurovision Song Contest - M&S Arena Liverpool
(2023-05 - 2023-05)
- Proactive on-site runner for ESC talent/ production senior leadership throughout rehearsal weeks and live broadcasts.
Regulatory Affairs, Editorial Standards Advisor - BBC Studios - London, UK
(2021-01 - 2022-03)
- Project managed the BBCS Managed Editorial Risk List, publishing monthly reports for SEC members; regularly liaised with Heads of Production, Distribution and SEFs to garner production and project risk updates; led training.
- Project managed group-wide FYE secret recording and competition audits re: pre-TX and pre-publication authorisations.
- Conducted monthly editorial content, advertising and promotion audit reports by viewing 9 hours of randomly-selected global branded service playout and assessing the appropriateness of the categories of content/ads/promo broadcasted.
- Researched the latest rulings for breaches of the ASA BCAP, ASA CAP and Ofcom Broadcasting Codes and curated findings into a monthly Regulatory Newsletter; stipulating BBC Editorial Guidelines to be adhered to, to mitigate risk of breach.
Global Business Operations, Deal Management Coordinator - BBC Studios - London, UK
(2019-09 - 2021-01)
- Autonomously resolved licence period conflicts, distribution/underlying rights issues to ensure proposed programme sales proceeded efficiently, capitalising on strong relationships with Content Genre Execs, Sales EVPs and Rights Teams.
- Resolved accounting issues, requested fund releases from Credit Controllers and handled confidential new licensee data.
- Successfully interpreted and registered commercial terms relating to LPs, holdbacks, exclusivity, territory, transmissions and catch-up days from licence, output, co-pro, min guarantee and syndication for Nordic, CEMA, US and ANZ territories.
- Accurately performed end-to-end invoicing under tight deadlines using Rightsline, SPS and S4 Hana via CSV files.
Risk & Compliance Paralegal - Mishcon De Reya LLP - London, UK
(2019-04 - 2019-07)
- Successfully completed conflict and CDD searches for existing, new and underlying clientele for contentious/non-contentious matters to mitigate AML risk, including CDD on 6 neighbours in real estate to assess property value impacts.
- Completed opposing party conflict checks in contentious matters to ensure no material prior firm interaction.
- Ran pre-registration trademark searches against matter and client names to avoid future commercial conflicts.
Business Management and Administration Coordinator - BBC Archives - London, UK
(2017-11 - 2019-01)
- Project managed company-wide Open Days and taught researchers to identify rightsholders in BBC News clip metadata.
- Created daily Excel spreadsheets and weekly Janus reports to represent extracted AV&R/Music sales data in SAP.
- Confidentially generated unique Q Codes for hundreds of visiting production companies, used to charge for retrievals of copyrighted Archive material for BBC commissions, involving data entry into Janus and Elsy software.
Legal Assistant Internal Secondment - Competition and Intellectual Property teams - BBC Legal - London, UK
(2018-09 - 2018-09)
- Bundled marketing evidence and key supporting legislation, to create a defence to a consumer complaint.
- Discredited IP format claims by gathering evidence that proved lack of opportunity for copying and lack of similarities.
National Academic Coordinator for the Legal Research Group on the European Corporate Compliance Benchmark - K&L Gates LLP and ELSA International
(2016-11 - 2017-09)
- Successfully line managed 10 student researchers throughout the construction of a comprehensive report on the UK's corporate compliance legislation, answering 12 research questions set by our sponsors K&L Gates LLP.
- Edited the final UK report, published in the multi-jurisdictional report: files.elsa.org/AA/LRG_EBC_Final_Report.pdf.
- Generated timelines of interim submission dates, researcher feedback sessions and progress reports to stakeholders.
- Researched the Bribery Act 2010, ML Regulations 2007, Fraud Act 2006 and POCA 2002 to verify researcher draft points.
Gateway Assessor - Citizens' Advice - London, UK
(2017-03 - 2017-09)
- Confidently triaged and documented 8-10 calls/day, entering concise attendance notes into the Petra database.
- Advised hundreds of clients on practical resolution to their employment, consumer rights, housing and benefits issues, including guidance on Letters Before Claim, tribunal procedures and solicitor consultation bookings.
Mediation Session Supervisor - International Chamber of Commerce Paris - Paris
(2016-02 - 2016-02)
- Set up mediation suites for the 2016 ICC International Commercial Mediation Competition, entrusted to collate judges' score cards, enforced ICC rules with LCIA/CEDR professionals and enhanced my mediation techniques.
Asylum Case Researcher - South Yorkshire Refugee Law and Justice Centre
(2013-10 - 2014-03)
Legal Intern - DLA Piper LLP
(2013-06 - 2013-06)
Mini-Pupillage with Mr Earl Pinnock QC - No5 Chambers
(2012-08 - 2012-08)
Legal Intern - Accenture at 20 Old Bailey Law Courts - London, UK
(2012-06 - 2012-06)
Legal Intern - Pinsent Masons LLP
(2011-08 - 2011-08)
Contract Review Group and Culture & Engagement Board Member - BBC Studios - London, UK
(2022-04 - 2024-02)
Discover Law Outreach Ambassador - University of Sheffield Faculty of Social Sciences - Sheffield, UK
(2013-05 - 2016-07)
President (2015-2016) and Founding Vice President (2013-14) - European Law Students' Association Sheffield - Sheffield, UK
(2013-01 - 2016-07)
