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Entertainment Law

We specialise in legal services for the entertainment industry, offering our expertise in the business of film, film financing, co-production, regulatory requirements, underlying rights, and production legals. We provide comprehensive support, from structuring deals to securing rights for producers, financiers, and creatives, creative agencies, management agencies, record labels and companies.

What we can offer you:


  • Business of Entertainment – with the firm having been involved in over 200 films and television series and having represented producers, banks, studios and various entities that are involved in the business side of entertainment, we understand that moving content projects, while a creative process, is ultimately a commercial endeavour. We understand how the deals work and how the money from the exploitation of the projects flows. We understand how the collection agent, the completion bonder, the distributor, the financier and the producers all fit together.


  • Film Financing – we have advised on the financing of over 70 independent projects. We represent foreign lenders and banks and assist in securing the assets of the projects being shot in South Africa for foreign and local lenders.


  • Co-production – we understand the needs of local and foreign producers co-producing under the relevant treaty and structuring the rights and the finances in order to meet the minimum requirements of the relevant treaty.


  • Regulatory issues – we assist both local and foreign clients with navigating the relevant regulations pertaining to security structures, sale/assignment of IP, payment to entertainers, withholding tax, DTIC rebate, and loan-out structures.


  • Underlying rights – we assist in ensuring that the chain of title and IP rights of the projects are properly contracted so as to provide comfort to investors, sales agents and distributors that the IP rights are owned by the entities purporting to exploit the project.


  • Production legals – during the course of the shoot there are a myriad of agreements that constantly change. Location, crew, cast, stunt, clearances, and VFX agreements, are an example. Without proper production agreements, the IP rights in the project may be jeopardized.


Please note: 

We do not provide tax advice. 

We do not submit DTIC applications.

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