Senior Attorney

2 Months ago • 8 Years + • Legal

Job Summary

Job Description

The Senior Attorney will provide legal counsel to Disney+ (Direct-To-Consumer) in Italy and D2C/linear channels in Greece. Responsibilities include advising on marketing, advertising, regulatory, and consumer law matters. This role requires close collaboration with various teams (marketing, advertising sales, production, creative, CSR, finance, and controllership) to ensure compliance. Key tasks involve drafting legal documentation for Disney+ functionalities, promotional offers, and campaigns; negotiating ad sales agreements; ensuring compliance with advertising regulations in Italy and Greece; reviewing marketing campaigns; drafting agreements for promotional content production, talent agreements, product placement, and sponsoring activities; and working with the Health & Safety manager on event-related matters. The position necessitates strong contract drafting skills and experience in media/entertainment law. Onsite presence is required 4 days a week.
Must have:
  • 8+ years PQE in media/entertainment
  • Excellent knowledge of contract, commercial, consumer, and copyright law
  • Data protection and EU digital strategy knowledge
  • Significant contract drafting experience
  • TV and/or digital media experience
  • Fluent English
Good to have:
  • Greek language
  • Experience in streaming distribution

Job Details

Job Summary:

The role supports the media business, advising Disney+ (Direct-To-Consumer) in Italy as well as the D2C and the linear channels business in Greece with a focus on marketing, advertising, regulatory and consumer law matters.
 

Working closely with the marketing, advertising sales, production, creative, CSR, finance and controllership teams, and with other members of the legal and privacy teams to ensure full compliance of marketing campaigns, promotions, events, partnership deals of Disney+ and the linear channels in Greece.

The role will require you to be onsite 4 days a week.
 

Key Tasks/Objectives  

  • Work closely and be first point of contact for Italy and Greece with EMEA Disney + team and DSS Disney+ team to provide advice and drafting relevant legal documentations in relation to Disney + new functionalities, updating, promotional offers, global promotional campaigns, events and new projects etc.  

  • Drafting, negotiation and provide advice to Disney+ local advertising team for ad  sales  agreements on Disney+. Work closely with EMEA team to ensure compliance with advertising regulation both for Italy and Greece. 

  • With reference to the linear channels business in Greece, work closely with local team and EMEA team to ensure compliance with regulatory framework requirements.  

  • Define issues, perform legal research, analyze problems, evaluate alternatives and make appropriate recommendations to the business providing ongoing legal analysis and counselling to internal teams in a wide range of legal areas, including intellectual property, digital media and regulatory, consumer law and data protection 

  • Review and analyse marketing campaigns and promotions and provide legal advise to the business to best structure the campaigns, events and/or the commercial deals; 

  • Drafting, negotiation and provide advice to local production team for promotional agreements, promotional content production, talent agreement, product placement, sponsoring and promotional activities related to local production content promotion. 

  • Works closely with the Health&Safety manager (RSPP) to address H&S matters in relation to Disney events and promotional activities and has good control of the H&S Italian legislation 

  • Monitors local and EU Law developments 

 

Deal Management  

  • Works closely with the direct-to-consumer EMEA and US team, marketing (DTC and performance) , creative, advertising and  production team and promotion teams to develop deal negotiating strategy and deal structure, optimizing potential rights structures consistently with Disney approach in EMEA 

Experience & Professional Qualifications

  • Qualified lawyer with a minimum of 8 years PQE, in private practice (within media/entertainment sector) or in a media/entertainment business, or a combination of both

  • Excellent knowledge of contract and commercial law, consumer law, copyright, data protection, European digital strategy regulatory framework

  • Significant contract drafting experience 

  • Television and/or digital media experience (preferably in distribution and/or streaming)

Other

  • Fluent English is required for the role

  • Greek language would be a plus

The Walt Disney Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We strive to be a diverse workforce that is representative of our audiences, and where all can thrive and belong. Disney is committed to forming a team that includes and respects a variety of voices, identities, backgrounds, experiences and perspectives.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

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