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From brilliant creatives to technology trailblazers across the globe WBD offers career defining opportunities thoughtfully curated benefits and the tools to explore and grow into your best selves. Here you are supported here you are celebrated here you can thrive.

Your New Role...

This is a fixed-term position covering maternity.

Warner Bros. Discoverys BLA Legal Department seeks an enthusiastic and motivated Counsel BLA Legal to work within all commercial and legal aspects of WBDs content commission co-production acquisition and talent deals for Discoverys products across the EMEA markets with a focus on Italy Spain France and Kids content for EMEA. The successful candidate will have experience in commercial intellectual property matters a strong commercial acumen and a pragmatic approach. Extensive contacts amongst programme producers and distributors would be an advantage.

Your Role Accountabilities...

• Negotiate all commercial and legal terms relating to the acquisition commissioning development and co-production of programming for Warner Brother Discoverys services across the international regions within internal budget guidelines and channels requirements.

• Draft and negotiate programming agreements such as development acquisition commission co-production format and licensing agreements and associated agreements such as distribution agreements independent contractor agreements location and participant release agreements.

• Liaise with network and third-party production companies and distributors to negotiate and complete such agreements.

• Support and work closely with the Business Affairs & Legal Senior Director creative teams and production management to advise on legal and business affairs matters relating to local productions anticipate any legal and rights concerns and offer solutions to eliminate risk. Offer advice on matters such as budgets risk assessments duty of care copyright clearance issues insurance and review talent agreements contributor releases legal opinions and any other third party agreements associated with productions.

• Establish maintain and develop relationship with internal key stakeholders.

• Working closely with local content teams and the central EMEA content team responsible for sourcing content.

• Establish maintain and develop relationships with key content suppliers.

• Provide market intelligence research and support for business initiatives as directed.

• Provide on-going general business and legal advice to internal clients concerning production broadcast clearance copyright and other intellectual property and content-related issues as they arise.

• Trouble shoot various programming business and legal issues including drafting responses to claim letters drafting delay notification letters termination agreements assisting with pre-publication review and legal compliance content review and liaising internally and externally as appropriate regarding high exposure rights clearances.

• Updating the departments template agreements.

• Revise and update the internal database and such other information tracking mechanisms in use within the company.

• Supporting other company business initiatives as directed.

Qualifications & Experience...

• Experience working in media or television related business and/or knowledge of business and legal affairs in the entertainment industry including commissioning and acquiring TV rights preferable.

• Excellent negotiation drafting and contract analysis skills.

• Excellent interpersonal skills including clear and effective communication at junior and senior level within and outside the company.

• Good organizational skills and ability to work well under pressure.

• Ability to handle high volume of work as well as recognize priorities and manage time effectively to meet deadlines.

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