Simons Muirhead Burton

Media Business and Rights and Media.

Partner and head of the commercial media practice, combining traditional film and television production and finance work, and general commercial work for media and publishing companies. Film and tv clients include Blumhouse, Fred Berger, Zig Zag Productions, Edge Investment, 42 M and P, Fresh Start Media and Acorn Productions which manages the Agatha Christie Literary Estate. Publishing clients include Dennis Publishing, LadBible, and Time Out Magazine. Recent work includes working on the film “Teen Spirit” for La La Land producer Fred Berger, various film and tv projects for 42 and acting for Fresh Start Media on various aspects of their deal with Sky.

Trained Simons Muirhead & Burton; qualified, 1989; partner, 1992. Visiting lecturer in Media Studies at Warwick University. Current Trusteeships: The Death Penalty Project Charitable Trust and the Professional Squash Association Foundation.

Publications of note: 

LexisNexis®PSL – Protecting a new TV format (Banner Universal Motion Pictures v Endemol Shine Group) – News on 2nd November 2017 Publishing industry—payment structures and royalties – Lexis PSL – TMT – Practice notes

Italian

PACT, Law Society and Royal Television Society.

University of Cambridge, (1984, MA, Classics St Johns College); College of Law, Lancaster Gate, (1986).

Member of MCC and Life Fellow of Zoological Society of London; keen squash and bridge player.