Entertainment law

Proper legal planning for your project allows you to focus your main energies on the project’s creatives, and its physical production.

Eric Birnberg is an entertainment lawyer with hands-on experience in film and television production and distribution, and broadcasting. He is a partner in the Toronto-based law firm Lewis Birnberg Hanet Bobadilla, LLP, and the Toronto-based company Behind the Scenes Services Inc. which handles a full range of business affairs and administration services for Canadian film, television and digital media producers.

Proper legal planning for your project should ensure a smooth production and distribution process, allowing you to focus your main energies on the project’s creatives, and its physical production. Topics to be covered include rights acquisition, clearances and E&O insurance, cast and crew deal terms and contracts, public and private financing arrangements, tax credit planning, and interim financing arrangements.