About

Emma Moloney boasts an impressive legal career having taken on various legal leadership roles with the likes of Sky, Amazon (Kindle) and News UK. Moloney completed her law degree in New Zealand and trained at Allens in Sydney, Australia where she’d been a paralegal. She moved to London in 1997 where she worked at Ashurst within the media team and then made the move in-house at National Geographic Channels International where she was promoted to the global general counsel at the age of 32. She then went on to assume roles at Sky, Amazon (Kindle), Axiom and News UK where she was the head of commercial legal affairs, then interim general counsel before being appointed as the general counsel. Moloney joined Dutch-based media company Endemol Shine Group in March 2016 and moved to Amsterdam at the same time. Amongst her career highlights, Moloney was part of several large-scale output deals while at Sky, an example being the HBO output deal for Sky Atlantic, a process Moloney describes as ‘the most exciting professional experience’, which involved her going to New York as part of a small team to negotiate with HBO. ‘The deal changed a lot for the UK market and for viewers, and all while Game of Thrones was just a script for the first episodes. This deal was a very inspired strategy by Sophie Turner Laing, then at Sky and now the CEO of Endemol Shine Group’, says Moloney. In her current role Moloney has worked on increasing collaboration, where she has been responsible for bringing together two legal teams that traditionally sat and worked separately, into one cohesive whole. ‘I’ve also worked hard to create a tribe across the worldwide business and at our International Legal Conference in Amsterdam in late 2017, the results of this were evident’. As a result, collaboration has increased and connections between the various lawyers, results which are paying off for the business. With Mia Wellfare, then at Control Risks and now at Veon, along with Irma Dekkers, she founded a Compliance Club in the Netherlands in early 2017 which now has around 40 members that participate to integral quarterly meetings with well-regarded speakers.