Contact Info
Jack Finn is a Partner with MEP Business Counsel. His practice focuses on entertainment and media law, including film and television development, financing, production, distribution and other ancillary exploitation. Jack regularly represents and advises independent producers, production companies, animation studios, mini-major and major studios across the full life cycle of their productions – whether his clients are working on scripted, unscripted, documentary, animated, and/or live action projects. The core areas of Jack’s practice include intellectual property issues, corporate and commercial law, labour and employment matters, financing work, and specialized tax advice regarding the Canadian and British Columbian film and television labour tax credits.
Jack has served as production legal counsel for a number of Canadian and U.S. productions. Please see a more comprehensive list of Jack’s Representative Work below.
Prior to joining MEP Business Counsel, Jack worked in the film and television industry for a major U.S. studio where he gained hands-on practical experience. Jack previously completed a clerkship with the British Columbia Supreme Court and practiced law at a national law firm in Vancouver.
University of British Columbia (J.D. 2013), Queen’s University (B.A. (Honours) 2009)
Call to the bar:
British Columbia 2015
PRODUCTION LEGAL
Served as Canadian production legal counsel on:
- Heretic (Beck Woods Productions/Shiny Penny Productions/CatchLight Studios/A24)
- Henry Danger (Awesomeness/Paramount+)
- Law & Order Toronto: Criminal Intent (Lark Productions/Cameron Pictures/Citytv)
- Allegiance (Lark Productions/CBC)
- CrimeTime: Freefall (Howard Braunstein Films/Hallmark)
- Devil on Campus: The Larry Ray Story (Howard Braunstein Films/Lifetime)
- Monster High 2 (Brightlight Pictures/Nickelodeon/Mattel)
- Adventures in Christmasing (Johnson Production Group/VH1)
- Love Hard (Netflix)
- Scaredy Cats (Air Bud Entertainment/Netflix)
- Drinkwater (Suitcase Charlie Films)
- The J Team (Awesomeness/Paramount+)
- Invincible (Skybound/Amazon)
- To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before: Always and Forever, Lara Jean (Awesomeness/Netflix)
- The Astronauts (Nickelodeon)
- House of Spoils (BlumhouseTV/Amazon)
- Totally Killer (BlumhouseTV/Amazon)
- Farming For Love (Lark Productions/CTV)
- School Spirits (Awesomeness/Paramount+)
- The Power (Brightlight Pictures/Sister Pictures/Amazon)
- Honor Society (Awesomeness/Paramount+)
- Valiant One (Brightlight Pictures/Monarch Media)
- Borderline (Brightlight Pictures/LuckyChap Entertainment/Red A Entertainment)
- The Noel Diary (Johnson Production Group/Netflix)
- Phantom Pups (Air Bud Entertainment/Netflix)
- Hello, Goodbye, and Everything in Between (ACE Entertainment/Lionsgate)
- Pets & Pickers (Tyson Media Productions/Bell Media)
- Super PupZ (Air Bud Entertainment/Netflix)
- Mayor of Kingstown (101 Studios/Paramount+)
- Brave Blue World (BlueTech Research/Netflix)
- A Babysitter’s Guide to Monster Hunting (Netflix)
- The Baby-Sitters Club (Walden Media/Netflix)
- Coffee & Kareem (Pacific Electric Picture Co./Netflix)
- To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before: P.S. I Still Love You (Awesomeness/Netflix)
- Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist (Lionsgate/NBC)
- Are You Afraid Of The Dark? (ACE Entertainment/Nickelodeon)
- Easter Under Wraps (Hallmark)
- Just Add Romance (Hallmark)
- Unspeakable (CBC/SundanceTV)
- Sacred Lies (BlumhouseTV/Facebook Watch)
- A Series of Unfortunate Events (Netflix)
- The Simone Biles Story: Courage to Soar (Howard Braunstein Films/Lifetime)
- among others
Law Society of British Columbia
The Canadian Media Producers Association
PRACTICE AREAS:
ENTERTAINMENT / MEDIA
BUSINESS LAW
ANIMATED AND LIVE ACTION FILM
TELEVISION INDUSTRIES