Peter Dally (Consultant)
Peter specialises in providing commercial advice to clients in the media and entertainment sectors, particularly in film and television finance production and distribution. Peter also handles copyright and competition issues relating to the film industry and acts for purchasers and vendors of major media enterprises. His clients include studios, film producers, television franchise holders, film funds, start up internet TV channels and a number of tax investors.
Peter prides himself on being a "commercial media and entertainment lawyer", with a focus on each client's business which is unusally sympathetic for most lawyers. Whilst Peter has been a full time lawyer since joining DLA in 1994, he spent some 10 years in the entertainment business prior to taking his law degree at the University of London. It is perhaps because he instructed many lawyers as a client first, that he particularly understands what clients want and what they are happily prepared to pay for. As a professional keyboard player, he is quite possibly the only lawyer in the World to have appeared (in his twenties) on Top of the Pops several times and the TV show 'Wogan' twice in one week with two different groups (with Dan Hartman and John Parr, for the trainspotters amongst you). Ian crossed over to law in 1990 when he became (at 28) too old to prance about on stage any more after working in record production (Ian was one of the owners of London Bridge Recording Studios in the late 80's where artists as diverse as Robert Plant, Bros and some of the Eastenders stars recorded), artist management and music publishing. At DLA he became known as an expert in the Internet and e-commerce (joining the advisory board of ICANN), and has continued to specialise in New Media (notably in music, film and television sectors) since co founding New Media Law in January 2002.
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