Media, Entertainment & Communications - Davis LLP

The Davis LLP Media, Entertainment & Communications Law Practice Group provides corporate and legal advice to clients active in film & television production, communications, broadcasting, animation, print, music and technology.

Our clients in this sector include producers and independent production companies, as well as financiers involved in film & television and lending & equity placement.

We strive to assist our clients in achieving their long-term business objectives and financial strategies. We offer high-level legal expertise in business development, financing, production, distribution, insurance and entertainment related labor issues.

Specifically, we assist with:

Entertainment

• Production and distribution matters
• Financing structures, including securitization of tax credits and government agency
• Entertainment related insurance including completion bond requirements
• Rights licensing
• Talent and labour relations
• Music Clearance
• Intellectual property law, including issues related to errors & omissions, copyrights and trade-marks

Corporate

• Corporate/commercial/securities law
• Mergers, amalgamations, acquisitions and takeover defences
• Insurance/risk management
• Taxation matters, including tax credits, withholding tax and commodities tax
• Banking

Litigation

• Litigation in the federal and provincial trial and appellate courts, and in the Supreme Court of Canada
• Freedom of expression, defamation and "newsroom" law
• Privacy, publicity and personality rights issues

Regulatory

• CRTC
• Copyright Board
• Competition
• Marketing and publicity law
• Labour, employment and personnel matters, including advocacy before arbitrators, tribunals, and federal and provincial labour relations boards