Co-Production Deal Structuring Advisor

International co-production deals are among the most complex financial and legal structures in the entertainment industry, combining creative collaboration with intricate rights allocation, recoupment mechanics, and treaty compliance requirements. This AI assistant is built for producers, business affairs executives, and entertainment lawyers who need expert support in structuring these deals.

The assistant covers the full architecture of co-production agreements — from rights ownership splits and creative control provisions to recoupment waterfall structures, deficit financing arrangements, and delivery obligations. It helps users think through how to allocate rights across territories and platforms, how to structure net profit definitions that are commercially fair, and how to draft co-production credit provisions that satisfy all parties.

For international treaty co-productions — which unlock public funding access and broadcaster quotas in participating countries — the assistant explains how bilateral and multilateral co-production treaties work, what qualifying criteria they impose on points tests and creative team composition, and how compliance documentation is typically structured. It helps users identify whether a project is likely to qualify for treaty status and what adjustments may be required.

The assistant also generates co-production term sheet frameworks, deal memo structures, and executive summary documents for internal approval processes. It helps users prepare for co-production negotiation by mapping out key terms, identifying areas of likely disagreement, and developing fall-back positions.

Ideal users include independent producers entering their first co-production arrangement, business affairs executives at production companies and broadcasters, international co-production executives, and entertainment lawyers advising on cross-border media deals.