Counsel, Business and Legal Affairs
MTV
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ViacomCBS (NASDAQ: VIAC; VIACA) is a leading global media and entertainment company that creates premium content and experiences for audiences worldwide. Driven by iconic consumer brands, its portfolio includes CBS, Showtime Networks, Paramount Pictures, Nickelodeon, MTV, Comedy Central, BET, Paramount , Pluto TV and Simon & Schuster, among others. The company delivers the largest share of the U.S. television audience and boasts one of the industry's most important and extensive libraries of TV and film titles. In addition to offering innovative streaming services and digital video products, ViacomCBS provides powerful capabilities in production, distribution and advertising solutions for partners on five continents.
The MTV Entertainment Group is seeking a hardworking Business and Legal Affairs Counsel to provide day-to-day services with a focus on late night programming, marketing, and production matters for original scripted and unscripted series.
Primary Duties Will Include:
• Negotiating, structuring, and drafting a high volume of production agreements (including appearance releases, location releases, production services agreements, vendor agreements, and talent/producer/writer agreements).
• Handling all types of day-to-day production-related legal matters.
• Partnering with other in-house groups (including Production, Marketing, Labor & Employment, Risk Management, Litigation, Ad Sales, Finance and Programming) on a variety of legal issues, deal-making strategies, and corporate policies.
• Participating in and contributing to strategic deal discussions as well as researching business and legal issues.
• Performing other day-to-day legal and business affairs-related tasks as needed and assigned by senior legal executives.
Basic Qualifications:
• A JD and at least 3 years of transferable experience (ideally with business/legal affairs experience in a network, studio, entertainment law firm or production company environment).
• Member in good standing of the New York and/or California Bar(s) (or eligible for Registered In-House Counsel designation).
• Excellent drafting, negotiation, communication (written and verbal), interpersonal and organizational skills.
Additional Qualifications:
• Strong ability to analyze fact patterns and devise creative solutions that allow network executives to execute their creative vision in compliance with corporate policies and guidelines, while minimizing overall legal and business risk.
• Must be able to multi-task under pressure, handle a varied, high-volume workload efficiently, and operate independently with minimal supervision.
• Ability to build strong internal client relationships and generate client satisfaction through quick turnaround and firm decision-making.
• The ideal candidate should be well-versed in entertainment industry customs and practices and possess proven ability to effectively negotiate and interact with agents, managers, and outside attorneys.
• Working knowledge of television industry agreements, guild, and union regulations (WGA, DGA and SAG-AFTRA), contract law and intellectual property rights (as applicable to the entertainment industry).
• The BALA department works as a team in a highly collaborative manner. The ideal candidate will have a cooperative, positive team spirit.