Harbottle & Lewis LLP

Film, Television & Theatre

Neil is a partner and head of the firm's theatre practice.

Neil advises extensively in the theatre sector and is recognised as a leading practitioner both in the UK and abroad. In particular he provides strategic and business advice to players in the theatre and wider entertainment industries.

His clients include leading producers, theatre owners and operators, subsidised sector venues and touring companies. He also advises a number of high profile rights owners in connection with the management and exploitation of their rights across a wide range of media and platforms.

Neil has a prolific international practice, regularly advising in connection with productions opening on Broadway and in other territories worldwide, on transfers from Broadway to the West End and in particular on UK/US financing structures. Productions he has advised on include Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, War Horse, Dear England, The Lehman Trilogy and Wicked.

Trained SJ Berwin & Co; qualified 1997;  Associate Harbottle & Lewis 1997; Partner 2004

Ilford County High School for Boys;  University of Sheffield LLB (Hons) (1994)

Chair of the Peggy Ramsay Foundation, a charity which supports playwrights and a trustee of Leeds Playhouse.