Blaise Gaymer > Simons Muirhead Burton > London, England > Lawyer Profile
Simons Muirhead Burton Offices
87-91 Newman Street
LONDON
W1T 3EY
England
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Blaise Gaymer
Work Department
Media and Entertainment
Company and commercial
Position
Senior Associate in the Media and Corporate and Commercial departments at Simons Muirhead & Burton LLP. Blaise advises clients on a broad range of commercial issues in the media and entertainment sector, primarily surrounding the development, production, distribution and exploitation of all forms of content, including feature films and television programmes in traditional media and on digital media networks. Her clients include production companies, publishers, artists, talent agents and photographers. She has particular experience in advising on the sale and acquisition of companies in the media space and investment arrangements for new companies.
Career
Trained Simons Muirhead & Burton qualified 2010, Senior Associate 2016. Worked in-house at VICE (on secondment), Hearst Magazines (on secondment) and News Group Newspapers (on remote secondment).
Memberships
Law Society.
Education
UCL – Law LLB
Leisure
Cinema, travel, tennis, swimming
Lawyer Rankings
London > TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Media: Digital content & social
(Rising stars)London > TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Media: Film & TV
(Rising stars)Simon Goldberg and Razwana Akram lead the film and television team at Simons Muirhead Burton, a firm that advises film financiers, independent production companies and traditional broadcasters such as Channel 4, ITV and the BBC across all areas of development, production, finance and distribution. The team, which also includes film finance expert James Greenslade and senior associate Blaise Gaymer, has noted an uptick in matters involving an AI or gaming component. Data protection specialist Stephen Shotnes heads up the contentious function. In a notable development, Nick Miller – former head of ACK Media Law LLP’s film and television department – joined the team; he has particular expertise advising on BAFTA and Emmy-nominated animation projects and children’s programmes.
Lawyer Rankings
- Rising stars London > TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Media: Film & TV
- Rising stars London > TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Media: Digital content & social
- Media: Film & TV London > TMT (technology, media and telecoms)
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Crime, fraud and licensing > Crime: general
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Media: Theatre, publishing and other media
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Reputation management
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Media: Digital content & social
Firm Rankings
- Public sector > Civil liberties and human rights
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Media: Film & TV
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Media: Music
- Private client > Family
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Franchising
- Crime, fraud and licensing > Fraud: white-collar crime (advice to individuals)
- Corporate and commercial > M&A: Smaller Deals, £10m-£100m
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: mid-market
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Sport
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Intellectual property: trade marks, copyright and design