Radius Media provides Legal & Business Affairs services to film and TV productions and to music licensors, drawing on over 20 years experience working across production, finance, distribution and international sales.

Our Approach

Radius Media offers a proactive and flexible service supporting producers across the commercial aspects of film and television production. Company management has previous experience overseeing project finance ventures with a combined value of over £120m, and productions with budgets ranging from a few hundred thousand to over £50m. As a qualified corporate finance member of the Chartered Institute of Securities and Investment, a strict Code of Conduct is adhered to when dealing with clients.

Legal & Business Affairs

Radius Media provides a range of cost-effective legal and business affairs services spanning the full life of a project, from securing rights, planning funding options through to distribution.

Recent work includes the optioning of a children’s book for cross-media exploitation, establishing a US LLC with a UK limited partner to access the NY film tax credit, drafting a book rights option and writer’s agreement for the adaptation of a novel, researching and clearing the ownership of video and television rights in old programming for re–release, overseeing tax credit certifications and a co-development agreement between two production companies. More...

Corporate Finance

Alongside our core film and television focused services, Radius Media provides general corporate services including company administration and legals (such as share capital alterations, cap tables, term sheets, shareholder and subscription agreements), financial modelling, Enterprise Investment Scheme and Seed EIS qualification and compliance (including for complex cases such as establishing a film and television company), business plan / pitch deck preparation and financial promotion compliant fundraising offer documentation, and access to finance options for both productions and general trading operations. Outside of the film and television sector the company focuses on sourcing finance for property development projects and acquistion led business expansion. 

Production Services

With its broad talent pool, high-end facilities and service providers, light touch regulation and generous tax credit, the UK offers international producers an ideal production base to realise high quality projects. Whether activity is undertaken wholly within the UK or using the UK as a hub for international production, Radius Media supports producers with a range of flexible services to ensure productions are set up to fully capitalise on the benefits available. More...

Film Tax Relief

Following the extension of the film tax credit to cover 25.5-​39.75% of qualifying costs, the UK has become one of the leading international production hubs for producers seeking to elevate their projects and add value. Whether utilised to ​supplement limited funding or expand the scale of production ambitions, the tax credit enables access to a wide ​variety of diverse locations, highly talented professionals spanning a range of budget levels, and world-class studio and post-production facilities. 

With a track record that includes using complex multi-party co-productions to access tax benefits on budgets exceeding £50m, Radius Media assists UK and international producers seeking to optimise their funding, from initial budget reviews and co-production structuring through to tax credit certification, exploring loan finance options and working closely with auditors to promptly finalise claims. More...

contact [at] radius-media.co.uk