The Job

The Copyright Team sits within Sentric’s Rights division. Its objectives are:

• To ensure accurate and timely registration of client’s copyrights around the world.
• To maximise revenue streams from all potential sources.
• To identify areas of potential income growth for client’s catalogues.
• To partner with internal teams to ensure client expectations are exceeded, ensuring significant retention and renewal levels are maintained.
• To ensure clients are at the centre of all activity, ensuring Sentric´s ethos of fairness, transparency and customer focus is evident at all times.

The Copyright Administrator will be responsible for supporting the Rights team in the administration of clients’ copyrights. They will interact with clients, collection societies and other interested parties to facilitate effective global administration of copyrights.

Your missions are :

Copyright Administration       

• Review and verification of new song data in copyright system.
• Review and verification of writer and song amendments in copyright system.
• Assist with answering basic client copyright queries from other publishers and Performing Rights Organisations.
• Assist with resolving copyright conflicts/counterclaims.
• Assist with bulk ingestion of data into copyright system.
• Assist with data enrichment in system.
• Assist with account audits.
• Assist Copyright Team with manual claiming for works utilising online platforms.
• Assist wider team with Copyright queries.

Rights Management & Client Management Support
 

• Assist with special projects initiated by the wider Rights team division, Client Managers and Director of Rights, ensuring a qualitative and timely resolution of assigned project tasks.
• Assist Rights team with ad hoc duties to cover holiday periods etc.

The Job

Au sein de la Direction Juridique de Believe SA, groupe en forte croissance, vous serez directement rattaché(e) au Senior Legal Corporate Lawyer et participerez en tout autonomie aux missions suivantes : 

Missions du poste

Rédaction et suivi des contrats inter-compagnies entre Believe SA / Believe International, filiale détenue entièrement par la première, et le reste des sociétés françaises et étrangères du groupe

Identification et mise en place d’un système de suivi et d’éditions des contrats

Participation à la coordination globale de l’élaboration du Document d’Enregistrement Universel

• Participer à la rédaction des projets de chapitres relatifs au rapport sur le gouvernement d’entreprise, le capital et l’actionnariat.
• Participer au pilotage des autres chapitres en étroite collaboration avec les différentes directions du groupe en veillant à la pleine conformité de la société cotée avec les impératifs légaux, règlementaires et être en ligne avec les recommandations de place (AMF, HCGE, AFEP, etc.).

Participation à la préparation des réunions des instances de Believe SA

Assister le Senior Legal Corporate Lawyer dans la préparation des réunions des instances de Believe SA (Conseil d’Administration et de ses 3 Comités – Comité des Nominations et des Rémunérations, Comité d’Audit et Comité RSE) et toutes missions se rapportant à la Gouvernance de manière générale.

Participation à la préparation et à l’organisation de l’Assemblé Générale de Believe SA

• Assister le Senior Legal Corporate Lawyer dans la préparation de l’Assemblée Générale Annuelle de Believe SA (rédaction des projets des avis de réunion et de convocation, piloter la brochure de convocation, rédiger les projets des motifs et des résolutions, etc.)
• Garantir la conformité de Believe SA à la réglementation en vigueur en matière de Droit Boursier, formalités, déclarations et publications y afférentes
• Gérer les franchissements de seuils, fenêtres négatives, déclaration des opérations sur titres des dirigeants, gestion des listes d’initiés et du traitement de l’information privilégiée, déclarations AMF.
• Analyser et suivre les obligations réglementaires ainsi que les pratiques de marché avec la réalisation de benchmarks
• Préparation des décisions majeures et gestion des formalités
• Veille juridique et réglementaire et suivi des obligations en Droit Boursier et Gouvernance

Cette liste est non-exhaustive et les missions pourront évoluer en fonction des besoins de la Direction Juridique.

The Job

Autonomous management of the files of an evolving portfolio of companies of various forms, mainly outside France and on all continents. The group is growing strongly, either organically or through acquisitions, and is implementing a dynamic policy of optimising its legal structures (around fifty to date).

Privileged interlocutor with the other departments of the group (central and local, in particular DCF and HR), the Group’s management (Executive Committee, regional bosses) and subsidiaries (GM/GMO).  Supervision of external stakeholders (lawyers, auditors, etc.).

Responsible for drafting all legal documents related to corporate law, monitoring compliance with operational schedules, and legal deadlines.

Main missions

The main mission of the position is to transform the way in which the life operations of the companies of the Believe subsidiaries are managed towards processes that are more scalable, more efficient, more sophisticated and more anticipatory of the Group’s evolutions.

In more detail, the missions are structured around the following elements:

• responsible for the legal life of companies and their bodies (Boards of Directors, General Meetings, amendments to the articles of association, corporate mandates, delegations, etc.),
• management of exceptional transactions (capital transactions, restructurings, mergers and contributions, liquidations, etc.),
• Identification and resolution of legal issues relating to corporate law, employee profit-sharing plans, intra-group agreements, governance, or other cross-functional group projects,
• Development and implementation of the group’s policies by adapting them to the local regulations of the subsidiaries,
• Selection and implementation of a system of software to monitor legal life and their proceedings.
• Implementation of KPIs to monitor activity.
• Development and implementation of innovative management solutions, and improvement of existing processes.
• Supervision of the integration of acquired/created companies.
• Management of a lawyer.

The Job

Contract Management Administrator (M/F)

The Contract Management Specialist is responsible, in accordance with established work rules and procedures, for:

• Reviewing, validating and electronically signing contracts, contractual annexes and amendments for LAS and Artist Services.
• Checking producer data and legal entities in contracts as per KYC procedures.
• Checking contractual terms and related approvals.
• Act as business partner to support Sales teams in the contractual workflow (CLM and Ticketing Support).
• Analysis and processing of contractual deviations from standard clauses.
• First-level analysis of contract operability to ensure proper execution of the contractual commitments.
• Manage the contractual workarounds by respecting SLA’s and committing to improve KPI’s and Signature leadtimes.
• Management of contractual data in our back-office tools (Account settings, Royalty tool settings in « Details »).
• Processing of ad-hoc requests to assist sales/legal teams (contract migration, amendment campaigns/correction of contractual data, onboardings etc.).

Profile requirements

• Bachelor degree in Law resp. Contract Management or equivalent background experience
• Understanding of contract T&C’s and contract law
• Drafting of specific clauses
• Collaboration & Relationship management with Internal stakeholders
• Communication skills
• Process & Support oriented
• English, French – Any other language will be considered as a plus

The Job

We are seeking a talented and enthusiastic qualified solicitor with experience and passion for music law to work in the legal & business affairs department of our London office.  

You will report directly to the senior business affairs lawyer and in dotted line to the Chief Legal Office of Believe based in Europe (France) and work closely with all teams within the business based in the UK and with the Central Legal Department located in France. 

Primarily handling label and artists signings for our distribution / artist services departments, you will ensure that the Believe Group processes, contract templates and business rules are applied throughout negotiations and completion of deals. You will  provide consistent legal support to the admin and sales teams to ensure we sign contracts as efficiently as possible.    

In practical terms, your tasks and responsibilities are to: 

• review, negotiate and complete contracts under the supervision and guidance of the senior business affairs lawyer ; 
• implement the guidelines, processes and policies set up by the Believe Group, as adapted where applicable to comply with the laws of England & Wales;  
• deal with a wide range of music industry related agreements including; synchronisation licences, compilation licences, broadcast agreements, marketing services and brand partnerships; 
• assist on litigation matters, reporting to our head of litigation in Paris and with external lawyers where necessary; 
•  Liaise with Headquarter Legal department (based in France) through a detailed reporting, in order to seek approval and ensure all relevant information is shared ; 
• Liaise with other departments of the group and train as necessary to ensure templates are well understood and implemented;
• Participate as required to elaboration of template & establishment of process at local or group level;
• assist with general corporate, compliance, and business matters in the UK where legal input is required. 
• Legal monitoring on local laws, in particular in the field technonology applied to intellectual property;

The Job

• Du stellst sicher, dass die Werke Deiner Kunden bei der GEMA korrekt und vollständig registriert werden. 
• Sollte es zu Unstimmigkeiten kommen bist Du ebenso für die Klärung von Gegenansprüchen verantwortlich und sorgst durch Deinen guten Kontakt zur GEMA und anderen lokalen Verlegern, dafür, dass diese beseitigt und die Werke registriert werden können.
• In Zusammenarbeit mit dem Activity Tracking Team stellst Du ebenso sicher, dass alle potenziellen Einnahmen in Deutschland und in den Bereichen Broadcast, Digital, Live und anderen Quellen für nicht beanspruchte Tantiemen gesammelt werden.
• Sollten die Tantiemenausschüttungen nicht den Erwartungen entsprechen, sorgst Du in enger Zusammenarbeit mit den Teams für Rechte, Vertrieb und Daten dafür, diese Probleme zu lösen.
• Als erster Ansprechpartner der GEMA nimmst Du an allen Verlagssitzungen teil, um sicherzustellen, dass Believe über alle neuen Entwicklungen auf dem Laufenden ist, damit wir die Leistung des Katalogs in Deutschland maximieren können.
• Zudem erstellst Du interne Berichte für das Management des Rechte Teams um die Leistung des Katalogs in Deutschland anhand von KPIs zu bewerten und stehst in Kontakt mit der GEMA, um sicherzustellen, dass die Erwartungen erfüllt werden.