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Sam Tatton-Brown
Sam graduated from Durham University in 1993 with a First Class Honours degree in History. He trained at Frere Cholmeley Bischoff and qualified in 1998. Sam was an Assistant at Clifford Chance before joining Davenport Lyons in 1999. He became a partner in 2004.
Sam’s practice focuses on film and TV finance and production work.
Previous experience includes:
- Advising Platinum Films on its production, finance, licensing and distribution arrangements in relation to their children’s properties “Planet Cook”, “Dream Street” and “Matt Hatter”.
- Advising Deuce Films on their car racing show “Slips” for MTV hosted by the Fun Lovin’ Criminals’ Huey Morgan, one of the flagship shows MTV commissioned to launch their Freeview channel Viva.
- Advising Ealing Studios in relation to their development finance arrangements.
- Advising Stephen Woolley’s Number 9 Films on their feature film “How To Lose Friends and Alienate People” starring Simon Pegg and Kirsten Dunst.
- Advising the producers of Series 2 and 3 of ITV’s Stephen Fry vehicle “Kingdom”.
- Establishing the documentation for Piccadilly Pictures to provide equity investments into films and advising their LLPs on equity investments in various films including Ralph Fiennes’ “Coriolanus”, the Sean Bean and Danny Dyer WW2 epic “Age of Heroes”, Independent’s “We Need to Talk About Kevin” starring Tilda Swinton and John C. Reilly, “Hunky Dory” starring Minnie Driver and “The Numbers Station” starring John Cusack and Marlin Akerman.
- Advising various banks in relation to their TV financing activities including Coutts & Co (in relation to ITV’s children’s series “Tati’s Hotel”, Kudos’s drama “Eternal Law”, ITV’s “Above Suspicion” and “Sir Trevor McDonald’s Mississippi”), Bank of Ireland (in relation to Company Pictures’ “Wild At Heart” and “Skins”) and another clearing bank (on its financing of numerous ITV commissions including Linda La Plante’s “Trial and Retribution”, “The Commander” and recently Mammoth Pictures’ forthcoming BBC/HBO co-production “Parades End” written by Sir Tom Stoppard and starring Benedict Cumberbatch, Rupert Everett and Rebecca Hall).
- Developing the paperwork pursuant to which The Royal Bank of Scotland provided single picture gap finance from 2000-2006 and advising on the bank’s financing of numerous films during that period including Ken Loach’s Palme D’Or winner “The Wind that Shakes the Barley”.
- Devising the documentation for Alliance & Leicester the issue Letters of Credit in respect of Sale & Leaseback Net Benefits including the Bond film “Casino Royale”.
- Advising the sales agent ContentFilm International in relation to the medieval action film “Ironclad” starring Paul Giamatti, James Purfoy and Derek Jacobi.
- Developing the now industry standard documentation for banks to discount BBC commissions and C4 commissions from independent producers and advising various banks on their first such transactions, including the financing of Wall to Wall’s “New Tricks Series 4” for the BBC and “Skins” for C4.
- Advising Investec Bank on their first film financing transaction – financing Ealing Studio’s first “St Trinians” film starring Colin Firth and Rupert Everett.
Sam lectures at various film and TV finance seminars and industry training courses, including courses run by PACT.
