Media, Culture & Entertainment

This industry requires highly specialised expert legal skills as the most valuable asset of companies operating in the area lies in their intangible objects. We offer our clients in the field active assistance in protecting and increasing their intellectual property portfolios, also advising on matters in the area of advertising and communications.

Our experts have proved themselves trustworthy, reliable professionals in providing legal assistance in drafting service agreements, compilation of transfer, acquisition, and franchise agreements, also drafting confidentiality and advertising agreements. In addition, we have assisted media and entertainment companies in matters related to real estate, daily corporate governance issues, and highly specialist assignments.

Some of our recent assignments include:

  • advising IT company Forticom operating several popular social portals in Central and Eastern Europe on purchase of most visited portal in Russia and the CIS countries, odnoklassniki.ru;
  • advising the producer of the Cannes Film Festival winner The Temptation of St Tony on compilation of co-production, film music agreements, and on matters regarding distribution agreements;
  • advising media corporation Ekspress Group on initial and secondary public offering of shares on NASDAQ OMX Tallinn. We also advised the client on purchase of the portal DELFI from a Texas Pacific Group company;
  • advising  the Association of Estonian Broadcasters in a dispute over a claim by phonogram producers and bearers about calculation of pay on an equitable basis;
  • advising Martinson-Trigon Venture Partners, a private equity fund focusing on the media, technology, and telecom sectors in Russia and the Baltic states, on establishing the corporate structure and activities of MTV Baltics.

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Your contact: Peeter Kutman