Lee Stone - Partner, Film & TV

Lee is a partner in the Film & TV department at Lee & Thompson where he advises on all aspects of the feature film and television industry, having joined the firm in 2000 after having worked for 2 years in-house at Endemol UK (now part of Banijay Entertainment).

Lee’s practice is extremely diverse across both film and television. His clients encompass production companies for whom he often structures complex international co-productions, individual talent where he works closely with their managers and agents, rights management companies encompassing both sales agents and distributors, post-production houses who also double up as equity investors, and some of the UK’s leading independent film financiers investing in a vast number of both European and North American productions – a particular emphasis on bridge and senior lender gap financing.

Lee also has long-standing expertise in the Indian film and television industry, regularly advising on Indian productions seeking to take advantage of the UK’s locations, cast, crew and tax credits, as well as advising UK and overseas producers working in India.

In addition, Lee does a significant amount of animation work, from animated features to pre-school television programmes.

The latest Chambers & Partners UK research recognises Lee in this field:

“Lee is our main partner and has de facto become a crucial part of our organisation. He is always dependable and very commercially minded” – Chambers & Partners

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