Development agreements including: Option agreements: drafting an agreement to secure exclusive control over underlying literary works with an pre-agreed form of assignment to acquire these rights at a later date Writing agreements: engaging writers of synopses, treatments and screenplays on standard guild terms or on specifically negotiated terms to match with your development resources Development financing agreements: negotiating with institutional or private sources of development financing to ensure compliance with the rights in the project and to ensure your ability to repay the development finance from the production budget of the project Production agreements including: Artist agreements: securing the acting and promotional services of main cast members in accordance with the needs of the project and its schedule, financiers and completion guarantee Director agreements: covering development services, writing services, production, post-production and promotional services Location agreements: covering the usage of the location and the right to use the location in the production and all forms of exploitation of that production Distribution agreements including: Deal memos: initially securing the acquisition or sale of rights in the production pending completion of a long form agreement  Long form agreements: detailed agreement to acquire or sell rights in the project including all new media rights and the computation and accounting for all revenue streams resulting therefrom Notices of Assignment: ensuring the revenues from the initial minimum guarantee and overages from the relevant territory are directed to the correct   Financing agreements including: Production, financing and distribution agreements: for any financier or distributor this forms the principal contractual relationship with the production company  Security Agreements: a mortgage over the intellectual property in the production and its underlying rights on which it is based and used to control these intellectual property rights in the event of a breach of the production's obligations to the financiers or an insolvency of the production company Interparty Agreements: key to negotiating the arrangements between the various financing parties to any production by establishing the order of the priority of security interests that protect the financier's investments in or loans to the production Completion Guarantee Agreements: ensures that the completion guarantor can adequately control the progress and cost of a production and result in the completed film or programme being delivered to its financiers and distributors Executive Production Services including: Finance plans: helping you to develop a finance plan that matches your available production finance with your budget to create an attractive and viable recoupment structure for the relevant loan, equity, subsidy or licence fees that contribute to your production budget Tax and co-production structures: advising you on how to structure your production as a treaty co-production between the United Kingdom and one or more other countries to maximise national production subsidies or tax benefits Asset building: structuring productions with residual interests for producers or financiers to build library value and long term revenue streams