Jack Finn

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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.

EDUCATION

University of British Columbia (J.D. 2013), Queen’s University (B.A. (Honours) 2009)

Call to the bar:

British Columbia 2015

REPRESENTATIVE WORK

PRODUCTION LEGAL

Served as Canadian production legal counsel on:

Altar (Chernin Entertainment/A24)
Eternity (Star Thrower Entertainment/A24)
The Smashing Machine (Seven Bucks Productions/Out for the Count/A24)
School Spirits (Awesomeness/Paramount+)
Law & Order Toronto: Criminal Intent (Lark Productions/Cameron Pictures/Citytv)
Allegiance (Lark Productions/CBC)
Heretic (Beck Woods Productions/Shiny Penny Productions/Catchlight Studios/A24)
My Weird School (Nickelodeon/Paramount+)
The Thundermans: Undercover (Nickelodeon/Paramount+)
My Pet Ate What? (Tyson Media Productions/Bell Media)
Farming For Love (Lark Productions/CTV)
Surviving Earth (Loud Minds/NBC)
Henry Danger: The Movie (Awesomeness/Nickelodeon/Paramount+)
Hop (Epic Story Media/Max)
Transplant Stories (Omnifilm Entertainment/Knowledge Network)
Mia & Codie (Epic Story Media/Relish Studios/Knowledge Kids)
Bad Genius (Picturestart/Picture Perfect Federation/Little Ray Media)
Monster High 2 (Brightlight Pictures/Nickelodeon/Mattel)
Luna, Chip & Inkie: Adventure Rangers Go (Epic Story Media/Knowledge Kids)
Adventures in Christmasing (Johnson Production Group/VH1)
Love Hard (Wonderland Sound and Vision/Netflix)
Scaredy Cats (Air Bud Entertainment/Netflix)
Drinkwater (Suitcase Charlie Films)
The J Team (Awesomeness/Paramount+)
Invincible (Skybound/Amazon)
House of Spoils (BlumhouseTV/Amazon)
Totally Killer (BlumhouseTV/Amazon)
The Power (Brightlight Pictures/Sister Pictures/Amazon)
The Astronauts (Imagine Entertainment/Nickelodeon)
Honor Society (Awesomeness/Paramount+)
Borderline (Brightlight Pictures/LuckyChap Entertainment/Red A Entertainment)
To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before: Always and Forever, Lara Jean (Awesomeness/Netflix)
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+)
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)
Unspeakable (CBC/SundanceTV)
A Series of Unfortunate Events (The Sonnenfeld Company/Netflix)
among others