Entertainment Lawyer [Prodco]

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Toronto, ON
Mid level
Kids + Family • Marketing Tech • Mobile • News + Entertainment • Retail
The Role
The Entertainment Lawyer will collaborate with the Development, Production, and Licensing/Distribution teams at Spin Master. Responsibilities include drafting and negotiating contracts, ensuring legal clearances, managing rights, compliance with tax credits and unions, and tracking contractual obligations.
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Are you a kid at heart looking to build a career with a leading global children's toy, entertainment and digital gaming company?

At Spin Master, our unwavering commitment to open mindedness, integrity and innovation is a great part of what has made us an industry leader. How do we stay ahead of the pack? By hiring the best and brightest minds—and that’s why we want you!

Job Description:

What will you work on?
The Entertainment Lawyer works directly with Entertainment’s Development, Production and Licensing/Distribution Teams to ensure all legal and business affairs issues – from negotiations and agreements to copyright protections, insurance policies, rights management matters, credits and clearances – are resolved professionally, optimally and efficiently.

This role is a temporary position with benefits, tied to production timelines and deliverables. Opportunity to turn into full time regular role.
How will you create impact?

  • Draft and negotiate contracts, legal clearances, obtain insurance policies, track and advise on contractual obligations.
  • Liaise regarding tax credit compliance and eligibility, financial review of contracts, internal financing and structuring of productions.
  • Service Provider Contract negotiations, drafting and tracking.
  • Union compliance management and signatory process.
  • Rights Management, creative negotiations with multiple third parties to achieve necessary split of rights. Advising leaders of rights and restrictions.
  • High volume of contracts required on urgent basis.

What are your skills and experience?

  • J.D. or LL.B. degree Licensed to practice law in Ontario (or another Province of Canada) and in good standing
  • 4-10 years working in a film or television legal and business affairs department and/or entertainment law firm.

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What you can expect from us:

Our mission is to Make Life More Fun with a vision to push the boundaries of innovation, creativity, and fun.

  • Growth and Career Opportunities
  • Flexible Work Hours
  • Innovation, Collaboration and Fun
  • Comprehensive Benefits
  • Other fun Perks!

What’s it like to work here?

Spin Master is a fast-paced, hands-on organization that provides many great opportunities for impactful decision-making; though our challenging start-up atmosphere isn’t for everyone, we have a proven record of opportunities for future advancement and internal transfers for our passionate and results driven team.

Everyone is welcome in our sandbox and we are committed to an accessible and inclusive hiring process that provides reasonable accommodation to all applicants.

Spin Master strives to create an accessible and inclusive application and selection process and is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to job applicants who may require provisions to participate in the recruitment, selection and/or assessment processes. Should you require an accommodation, please contact our Talent Acquisition team, by email at [email protected] or by phone at 416 364-6002 and we will work with you to meet your accessibility needs.

Follow us on Instagram and Twitter @SpinMaster to stay up to date on Spin Master career opportunities.

We do appreciate all interest; however only those selected for interview will be contacted.

The Company
Toronto, Ontario
1,909 Employees
On-site Workplace
Year Founded: 1994

What We Do

Spin Master Corp. (TSX:TOY) is a leading global children's entertainment company creating exceptional play experiences through a diverse portfolio of innovative toys, entertainment franchises and digital games. Spin Master is best known for award-winning brands PAW Patrol®, Bakugan®, Kinetic Sand®, Air Hogs®, Hatchimals® and GUND®, and is the toy licensee for other popular properties. Spin Master Entertainment creates and produces compelling multiplatform content, stories and endearing characters through its in-house studio and partnerships with outside creators, including the preschool success PAW Patrol and 10 other television series, which are distributed in more than 160 countries. The Company has an established digital presence anchored by the Toca Boca® and Sago Mini® brands, which combined have more than 25 million monthly active users. With over 1,800 employees in 28 offices globally, Spin Master distributes products in more than 100 countries.

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