Ms Ruth Hunter > Matheson LLP > Dublin, Ireland > Lawyer Profile
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70 SIR JOHN ROGERSON'S QUAY
DUBLIN 2
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Ms Ruth Hunter
Work Department
Partner and Head of Entertainment Law Group
Position
Ruth Hunter is a partner in the Finance and Capital Markets Department. She focuses on the area of film and television production including the negotiation and drafting of financing agreements, distribution agreements, equity and tax based financing arrangements (including Section 481 tax credit financing), talent agreements (including film rights agreements), writers agreements, actors, directors, designers and composers agreements. She also provides advice in relation to errors and omissions, insurance and music copyright clearance as well as theatre and public performance contracts, music contracts and general intellectual property issues including trademarks.
Ruth also works with banks in relation to financing arrangements for film and television.
Ruth works with Screen Producers Ireland (the film producers representative organisation in Ireland) and is a member of the Audiovisual Federation and the Irish Business and Employers Confederation (IBEC).
Education
University of Cambridge (LLM); Trinity College Dublin (LLB).
Lawyer Rankings
Ireland > Media and entertainment
(Leading individuals)The team at Matheson LLP advises media and broadcasting companies and regulatory and statutory bodies on the full array of matters in the film, television and digital media sectors. The group combines its entertainment law expertise with the strength of its commercial litigation and dispute resolution team to provide clients with comprehensive defamation and privacy law advice. Ruth Hunter, who advises on a range of deals, negotiations and the drafting of actors’, directors’, production and distribution agreements, co-heads the practice with litigation expert Michael Byrne, who regularly represents clients in copyright infringement and defamation matters.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Asset finance
- Banking and finance
- Capital markets
- Commercial, corporate and M&A
- Data privacy and data protection
- Dispute resolution
- Employment
- Energy and natural resources
- EU and competition
- Fintech
- Healthcare and life sciences
- Insolvency and corporate restructuring
- Insurance
- Investment funds
- Media and entertainment
- Planning and environment
- Projects and PPP
- Public sector
- Real estate
- Tax
- Telecoms
- Transport