Our recent experience includes advising:
Subscription television
FOXTEL, News Limited and Premier Media Group
Successfully acting for these
clients in Federal Court proceedings concerning claims that the acquisition of
the AFL rights by News and the on sale of those rights to FOXTEL, Nine and Ten,
the acquisition of the NRL pay rights by Premier Media and the content supply
agreement between FOXTEL and Optus breached Part IV of the Trade Practices Act
1974 (Cth).
Star
Advised on broadcasting and regulatory issues across the Asia-Pacific
region including on its acquisition of a stake in Indonesian national
terrestrial television broadcaster, PT Cakrawala Nadalas Televisi.
Broadcasting
International Olympic Committee
Advised on the broadcasting agreements for the
2008 Beijing Olympic Games, and the Winter and Summer games in 2010 and 2012.
International Rugby Board
Advised on the broadcasting rights for the 2007
Rugby World Cup.
National Indigenous TV
Advised on negotiations with FOXTEL to retransmit
National Indigenous TV's service on FOXTEL's basic TV tier.
Melbourne 2006 Commonwealth Games
Advised on the broadcasting rights
agreements with Publishing and Broadcasting Limited (the Nine Network) and with
Telstra Corporation Limited.
New media
AOL LLC
Advised on the Australian law aspects of the acquisition of the social
networking site Bebo, Inc.
Walt Disney
Advising on a range of co-production, format licensing and mobile
content licensing projects in China, as well as advising on its acquisition of Gamestar.
Radio & music
Sony BMG Music Entertainment
Drafting and negotiating music publishing
agreements with artists such as Delta Goodrem and Ben Lee, recording agreements
with artists such as Rogue Traders and representing Sony BMG in copyright
infringement disputes.
Macquarie Media Group
Acted on the establishment of the MMG and its listing on
the Australian Stock Exchange. We have subsequently advised on the acquisition
of a strategic stake in Southern Cross Broadcasting, the acquisition of a radio
station and on privacy and telemarketing compliance.
News Limited
Advised on its sale of Festival Mushroom Records (FMR) to Warner
Music Australia, and the FMR music publishing business to the Mushroom Music
group.
Film and video
The Fox Group
Advised on intellectual property, film financing and
distribution matters in Australia and China.
