Fieldfisher

Media & Entertainment

Dr Isabel Schnitzer is a Counsel in the Fieldfisher's Munich office and advises in the area of Media & Entertainment.

Since the beginning of her professional career, her focus has been on copyright and media law.

She has many years of experience in the legal support of national and international film and series projects. She advises clients on film licence trading, content development and (co-)production through to the exploitation of film and television productions.

Due to her work as Head of Business & Legal Affairs, as interim Co-Managing Director of TELEPOOL and as Co-Head of GLOBAL SCREEN, she is used to looking at legal issues from a holistic, entrepreneurial perspective and, thanks to her extensive market knowledge, she has a good feel for realistic, practical solutions that take the interests of her clients into account in the best possible way. Her international expertise stems from the large number of international film projects she has managed, her global distribution practice and her close cooperation with the US shareholder of TELEPOOL, Westbrook Inc.

She is a Qualified Mediator IMI. This helps her to transform conflictual issues or negotiation situations into amicable solutions.

Before joining Fieldfisher, she spent the last six years as Head of Business & Legal Affairs, where she was responsible for all legal matters of the TELEPOOL Group, a leading film distribution company with a national and international focus, including the global distribution company GLOBAL SCREEN and the home entertainment subsidiary EuroVideo.

She advises her clients in German, English and French.

After completing her doctorate on personality rights issues in German and French press law, she initially worked in a renowned copyright law firm before joining TELEPOOL as an in-house lawyer.

She is an assessor on the board of Sternstunden e.V. - a non-profit organisation that supports projects and facilities that care for sick, disabled and needy children.