Peter specialises in providing commercial advice to clients in the entertainment sectors, particularly in film and television finance production and distribution. He was head of Film & TV at Bird & Bird between 1997 and 2009.His film work includes Claire Tomalin’s “The Invisible Woman” (Ralph Fiennes), Nicolas Refn’s “Only God Forgives” (Ryan Gosling,) “The Veteran”, “brilliantlove”, “Self Made”, “Better Things”, “Religulous”, “Match Point”, “Ghosts”, “I Want Candy” and “Boogie Woogie”; TV includes “Doc Martin”, “Man to Manta”, “The Last Lemur”, “Lion Man” and “Workhorse”.He has acted for financiers - Natixis Coficiné, Rarebird, Scotts Atlantic, Berliner Bank, Invicta Capital, Magna Films and CP Medien and documentary film makers - Nick Broomfield, Vikram Jayanti, Esteban Manzanares and Ben Lewis.In 1990 he became involved in business training for film producers and between 1991 and 1994 he led a team of lawyers at a series of Seminars for producers in Central and Eastern Europe.In addition to working full time as an entertainment lawyer in London, he has worked consistently with the Media Business School. He served as an expert at the Film Business School and the Television Business School. He designed and has taught the Legal and Business Affairs Module for the European Master in Audiovisual Management (MEGA Plus) since its inception in 1997 and is a member of the course evaluation committee.He has also lectured at a number of other leading training organisations including the UK National Film and Television School, the Erich Pommer Institute, La Fémis and the Filmakademie Baden-Wurttemberg.Peter is also a member of the Advisory Board of The Script Factory, a unique script evaluation and training organisation based in London. He is also a regular speaker at industry events and has spoken at media industry conferences in London, Amsterdam, Vienna, Cannes, Rio de Janeiro and Los Angeles.Peter is a WIPO arbitrator .