ENTERTAINMENT AND SPORT
Our team advises in the cultural and sports industries with a comprehensive and specialised approach. In the field of entertainment, we provide support in the negotiation and drafting of all types of contracts, the obtaining of public aid and legal-financial structuring of projects for the optimal use of aid and tax incentives. We also provide multidisciplinary legal advice to the audio-visual sector (national and foreign production companies, festivals and other agents in the sector) at all stages of production, as well as to the music and live performance sector, providing support to artists, agents, promoters, record labels, ticketing companies, etc. In sport, we work with federations, clubs, SAD and sportsmen and women, offering solutions in contracting, legal representation and disciplinary or judicial procedures. Our experience ranges from tax planning to strategic advice on rights and licensing, guaranteeing efficiency and protection with the aim of enhancing the success of our clients.
Our services
Audiovisual industry
Ongoing legal advice
- Drafting and monitoring the negotiation of contracts for the assignment of exploitation rights, starter agreements, national/international co-production contracts and production service agreements (PSA), among others.
- Review of the chain of title and underlying rights.
- Analysis and resolution of queries in relation to applications for national and international production funding. Advice on the initial structuring of the project in order to maximise the compatibility of direct funding (subsidies) and indirect funding (tax credit).
- Analysis of requirements for obtaining citizenship. In relation to international co-productions, review of applicable bilateral and multilateral treaties.
- Advising on the acquisition of commitments affecting the financing and operating plan of projects, such as capitalisations or inter-party agreements for the distribution of profits.
Project-based consultancy
- Review of contracts for the advance acquisition of exploitation rights with broadcasting companies – according to market -, distributors, international sales agents and platforms.
- Review of contracts with the project’s authoring team (script, direction, direction of photography and composition of original music), as well as executive production contracts and other contracts related to the execution of the audiovisual production.
- Legal analysis of the script and drafting of the clearance report.
- Agreements/authorisations for brand placement in the project.
- Contractual model in accordance with the terms set out in the collective agreements applicable to the hiring of technical and artistic personnel.
- Advice on the processing of visas and work permits.
- Advice on the recognition of the cost of public funding.
Deduction for investment/Media production management
- Active search seeking investors interested in tax credits for investments in audiovisual productions.
- Advice on how to obtain the tax rebate for the execution of foreign audiovisual productions (tax rebate).
- Control of the tax benefits generated, including their correct determination and quantification. Review of compliance with the requirements necessary for the correct transfer of the tax rebate.
- Formalisation of contracts governing the relationship with investors – framework agreement – through EIGs or financing contracts.
Music industry
Music creation and production
- Specialised legal advice on intellectual property matters: mapping of rights, analysis of ownership chains, drafting and negotiation of contracts (recording, distribution, publishing, commissioning of works, licences for synchronisation and transformation of works, theatrical performance and musical performance, among others).
- Tax planning service for artists.
- Internal organisational framework for music ensembles: band contracts and partnership agreements.
- Advice on the negotiation of artistic and executive production contracts.
- Legal support in dealings with institutions in the field of intellectual property (registrations, licences or settlements with collective management entities) and industrial property (registration and defence of trademarks at national or international level).
- Drafting of a legal framework in order to generate NFT licences.
Live performances
- Drafting and negotiation of live performance contracts, contracts with venues and concert locations, co-production contracts for events. Development of the contractual framework for the exploitation of live streaming and fake live streaming of artistic performances.
- Negotiation of advertising contracts (sponsorship contracts, naming rights contracts and advertising broadcasting contracts, among others).
- Structuring of tax incentives and attracting investment for projects. Specialised advice on international taxation and tax implications of performances by foreign artists in Spain. Legal support in the processing of subsidies.
- Specialised legal advice in the field of ticketing, RFID/NFC cashless payment systems and cryptocurrency payment services at concerts and festivals.
Management and representation
- Drafting and negotiation of management, booking and 360º management contracts.
- Creation of a contractual framework governing the orderly termination of the manager-artist relationship (residual income time horizon and sunset clauses, among others).
- Legal advice in those areas of the artist’s activity managed directly by the agency (agreements with brands and sponsorship or endorsement contracts, among others).
Sport
Athletes and sports organisations
- Specialised advice to sports entities, being familiar with of the particularities of the sector in each of the main legal areas.
- Advice to sports entities on compliance with and/or drafting of the specific regulations for each sporting modality: general and disciplinary regulations, as well as economic control regulations, among others.
- Negotiation and drafting of all types of contracts, especially contracts for the transfer of federative rights, sponsorship contracts and collaboration agreements with public administrations, among others.
- Tax and estate planning for professional sportspersons , both nationally and internationally.
- Advice on criminal proceedings related to sport (doping, betting, etc.).
Sporting events
- Defence of clubs, sportspersons and managers in disciplinary proceedings, both federative and administrative or contentious, in the different competitions in which they participate.
- Advice to sportspersons and sports entities in any type of legal and/or arbitration proceedings, both before the contentious or civil jurisdiction as well as before the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) .
- Advice to sports federations of any modality in their correct in-house functioning and in the fulfilment of their delegated public functions, as well as in the management and functioning of the competitions in which they act as organisers.
Other services
- Drafting of legal reports on specific matters of considerable legal and sporting complexity.
- Active participation as lecturers in numerous conferences and courses, as well as teaching in different legal specialities (disciplinary law, tax law, administrative law) and in various specialised postgraduate courses.
- Comprehensive advice to sportspersons and sports entities, covering matters of any legal speciality.
Ongoing legal advice
- Drafting and monitoring the negotiation of contracts for the assignment of exploitation rights, starter agreements, national/international co-production contracts and production service agreements (PSA), among others.
- Review of the chain of title and underlying rights.
- Analysis and resolution of queries in relation to applications for national and international production funding. Advice on the initial structuring of the project in order to maximise the compatibility of direct funding (subsidies) and indirect funding (tax credit).
- Analysis of requirements for obtaining citizenship. In relation to international co-productions, review of applicable bilateral and multilateral treaties.
- Advising on the acquisition of commitments affecting the financing and operating plan of projects, such as capitalisations or inter-party agreements for the distribution of profits.
Project-based consultancy
- Review of contracts for the advance acquisition of exploitation rights with broadcasting companies – according to market -, distributors, international sales agents and platforms.
- Review of contracts with the project’s authoring team (script, direction, direction of photography and composition of original music), as well as executive production contracts and other contracts related to the execution of the audiovisual production.
- Legal analysis of the script and drafting of the clearance report.
- Agreements/authorisations for brand placement in the project.
- Contractual model in accordance with the terms set out in the collective agreements applicable to the hiring of technical and artistic personnel.
- Advice on the processing of visas and work permits.
- Advice on the recognition of the cost of public funding.
Deduction for investment/Media production management
- Active search seeking investors interested in tax credits for investments in audiovisual productions.
- Advice on how to obtain the tax rebate for the execution of foreign audiovisual productions (tax rebate).
- Control of the tax benefits generated, including their correct determination and quantification. Review of compliance with the requirements necessary for the correct transfer of the tax rebate.
- Formalisation of contracts governing the relationship with investors – framework agreement – through EIGs or financing contracts.
Music creation and production
- Specialised legal advice on intellectual property matters: mapping of rights, analysis of ownership chains, drafting and negotiation of contracts (recording, distribution, publishing, commissioning of works, licences for synchronisation and transformation of works, theatrical performance and musical performance, among others).
- Tax planning service for artists.
- Internal organisational framework for music ensembles: band contracts and partnership agreements.
- Advice on the negotiation of artistic and executive production contracts.
- Legal support in dealings with institutions in the field of intellectual property (registrations, licences or settlements with collective management entities) and industrial property (registration and defence of trademarks at national or international level).
- Drafting of a legal framework in order to generate NFT licences.
Live performances
- Drafting and negotiation of live performance contracts, contracts with venues and concert locations, co-production contracts for events. Development of the contractual framework for the exploitation of live streaming and fake live streaming of artistic performances.
- Negotiation of advertising contracts (sponsorship contracts, naming rights contracts and advertising broadcasting contracts, among others).
- Structuring of tax incentives and attracting investment for projects. Specialised advice on international taxation and tax implications of performances by foreign artists in Spain. Legal support in the processing of subsidies.
- Specialised legal advice in the field of ticketing, RFID/NFC cashless payment systems and cryptocurrency payment services at concerts and festivals.
Management and representation
- Drafting and negotiation of management, booking and 360º management contracts.
- Creation of a contractual framework governing the orderly termination of the manager-artist relationship (residual income time horizon and sunset clauses, among others).
- Legal advice in those areas of the artist’s activity managed directly by the agency (agreements with brands and sponsorship or endorsement contracts, among others).
Athletes and sports organisations
- Specialised advice to sports entities, being familiar with of the particularities of the sector in each of the main legal areas.
- Advice to sports entities on compliance with and/or drafting of the specific regulations for each sporting modality: general and disciplinary regulations, as well as economic control regulations, among others.
- Negotiation and drafting of all types of contracts, especially contracts for the transfer of federative rights, sponsorship contracts and collaboration agreements with public administrations, among others.
- Tax and estate planning for professional sportspersons , both nationally and internationally.
- Advice on criminal proceedings related to sport (doping, betting, etc.).
Sporting events
- Defence of clubs, sportspersons and managers in disciplinary proceedings, both federative and administrative or contentious, in the different competitions in which they participate.
- Advice to sportspersons and sports entities in any type of legal and/or arbitration proceedings, both before the contentious or civil jurisdiction as well as before the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) .
- Advice to sports federations of any modality in their correct in-house functioning and in the fulfilment of their delegated public functions, as well as in the management and functioning of the competitions in which they act as organisers.
Other services
- Drafting of legal reports on specific matters of considerable legal and sporting complexity.
- Active participation as lecturers in numerous conferences and courses, as well as teaching in different legal specialities (disciplinary law, tax law, administrative law) and in various specialised postgraduate courses.
- Comprehensive advice to sportspersons and sports entities, covering matters of any legal speciality.
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