Senior Legal and Business Affairs Executive

Company

Banijay Kids and Family, the dedicated production, distribution, and sales division for children’s programming at Banijay, is a global leader in the children's entertainment industry, producing a wide range of animation and live action series, digital content, and entertainment formats for children worldwide.

Banijay Kids and Family unites multiple production companies in the UK, France and Italy. Zodiak Kids and Family France, Monello Productions and Procidis in France, Zodiak Kids and Family Productions UK, Tiger Aspect Kids & Family and Kindle in the UK, Movimenti Group in Italy – combining their expertise and creativity to nurture a broad range of upcoming productions and a catalogue of popular, original, and imaginative programming.

Its distribution arm, Banijay Kids and Family Distribution, represents over 2,200 hours of content, partnering with leading broadcasters and platforms globally.

With offices in Milan, Paris and London, Banijay Kids and Family is led by CEO Benoit Di Sabatino.

About Tiger Aspect Kids & Family

Under the leadership of MD Tom Beattie, Tiger Aspect Kids & Family creates bold, funny and iconic content for all ages, from pre-school through to family. Spanning live-action series and animated shows, notable credits for the multi-BAFTA award-winning company include Aliens Love Underpants, Charlie and Lola, Mr Bean: The Animated Series, Danny & Mick, Tinga Tinga Tales, Corpse Talk and recently launched Super Happy Magic Forest.

About Zodiak Kids & Family Productions UK

Zodiak Kids & Family Productions UK is a leading creator of original, innovative, and award- winning programming. The company produces distinctive and captivating entertainment for a wide range of broadcasters in the UK and worldwide. From pre-school to teenagers, its stellar credits include BAFTA award-winning series’ Secret Life of Boys and Joe All Alone, Millie Inbetween, Mister Maker, Ted’s Top Ten, and recent international, BAFTA nominated, sci-fi drama Silverpoint.

About this role

This role is responsible for managing the Legal & Business Affairs function across all development and production activities undertaken by two of the Banijay Kids & Family UK production companies: Tiger Aspect Kids & Family (representing approx. 90% of workload) and Zodiak Kids & Family Productions UK (approx. 10% of workload).

Job responsibilities

• Drafting and negotiating agreements relating to all stages of the development, financing, production and delivery of scripted programming in the kids and/or family genres (live action and animation), including agreements with underlying rights owners, writers, key talent, development funding and commissioning broadcasters, financiers, co-producers and distributors
• Providing advice and full legal support to production teams throughout the course of production
• Liaising with applicable UK unions and guilds as necessary
• Liaising with and providing advice to other parts of Banijay Kids & Family and/or Banijay Group companies as required
• Managing the trademark portfolio for each production company
• Providing rights availability and clearance information to distributors of finished programmes

Knowledge and skills

• The ideal candidate will have at least 5 years PQE and have acted as lead or sole provider of legal and business affairs services to one or more producers of scripted or animated television programming for at least 1 year
• Must have solid and demonstrable knowledge of and experience of all the following:

• negotiating agreements with underlying rights owners, writer and key talent agents, broadcasters and financing partners for the development and production of scripted TV programming
• UK commissioning broadcaster terms of trade and standard agreements
• UK union/guild agreements

• Experience of working on both animation and live action Kids international coproductions an advantage
• Experience of negotiating with ex-UK talent, agents, broadcasters and financing partners an advantage
• Legally qualified or specialist experience gained through working for UK producers of scripted programming
• Up-to-date knowledge of trade bodies policies

Reporting To: Managing Director of Tiger Aspect Kids & Family

Contract Type: Permanent, full-time

Hours: Monday - Friday, 9:30am - 6pm

We will consider flexible working requests for all roles unless operational requirements prevent otherwise. There is no obligation to raise this at the application stage but if you wish to do so, you are welcome to. Flexible working will be part of the discussion at offer stage.

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Banijay is an equal opportunities employer. We welcome applicants from diverse backgrounds and are committed to providing a creative and inspirational home for all people.