Herbert Smith Freehills LLP

Hayley advises on media and entertainment, consumer and digital commercial, transactional and regulatory matters.

Hayley heads our media and digital practice, in London, and assists clients on global strategic and innovative arrangements.  Hayley has spent time in industry on secondment at Sky, acted as quasi-in house counsel at FilmFlex Movies for a number of years and undertook mini secondments at OSN in Dubai.

Her practice is split into two: (i) advising both media companies and those in other sectors on media and entertainment matters including significant content licensing, partnering, joint ventures, regulation and marketing, sponsorship and advertising; and (ii) advising growing digital companies on partnering and product/geographical expansion and traditional companies on moves to new digital platforms.