James Peel Email & Phone Number

I am a Partner in the Film & TV Group at Wiggin. I specialise in television development, production and distribution, providing legal and strategic business affairs advice to my clients.I represent high profile UK and US television production companies, as well as mini-major US Studios. I have extensive experience of working across the content creation chain, including complex rights acquisition, development deals and support, deal structuring, above-the-line and below-the-line production issues and distribution arrangements on multiple platforms.I have worked on many high-profile shows across many platforms including recent work on Sex Education (Netflix), Top Boy (Netflix), Culprits (Disney+), A Gentleman in Moscow (Paramount+), Still Up (Apple), The Tattooist of Auschwitz (Sky), The Turkish Detective (Paramount+), The Ballad of Renegade Nell (Disney+) and Red Rose (BBC).I have been described by Legal 500 as having “excellent knowledge of legal positions, attention to detail and responsiveness". Legal 500 also reported my handling of "innovative deals for TV productions" and included the following client testimonial: "Gráinne McKenna and James Peel in particular go the extra mile, and an extra mile with these individuals is like 5 miles with anyone else as they are usually the smartest people in the room and the nicest".