Ruth
Hunter
Partner
Ruth Hunter is a partner in the Finance and Capital Markets Department.
She focuses on the area of film and television production including the negotiation and drafting of financing agreements, distribution agreements, equity and tax based financing arrangements (including Section 481 tax credit financing), talent agreements (including film rights agreements), writers agreements, actors, directors, designers and composers agreements.
Areas of Expertise
She also provides advice in relation to errors and omissions, insurance and music copyright clearance as well as theatre and public performance contracts, music contracts and general intellectual property issues including trademarks.
Ruth also works with banks and other lending entities in relation to financing arrangements for film and television.
Ruth works with Screen Producers Ireland (the film producers representative organisation in Ireland) and is a member of the Audiovisual Federation and the Irish Business and Employers Confederation (IBEC).
Experience and Education
Recent productions Ruth has worked on include:
- feature film “500 Miles” directed by BAFTA winner Morgan Matthews and starring Bill Nighy, Maisie Williams and Roman Griffin Davis;
- feature film “Three Quick Breaths” starring Danny Dyer;
- Irish legal counsel to Irish lender in relation to the television series entitled “The Walsh Sisters” based on the novels of best-selling author Marian Keys;
- television series entitled “Marble Hall Murders” an adaptation of the third and final instalment in best-selling novelist Anthony Horowitz’s Susan Ryeland series;
- television series entitled “These Sacred Vows” written and directed by John Butler and starring India Mullen, Justine Mitchell, Tom Vaughan-Lawlor and Jason O’Mara;
- television series provisionally entitled “Irish Blood” produced under the Irish / Canadian Audiovisual Treaty by Shaftesbury Inc in Canada and Deadpan Pictures, in association with AMC Studios;
- feature film entitled “Hallow Road” starring Rosamund Pike and Matthew Rhys with Babak Anvari;
- Irish production counsel on the Disney feature-length movie “Disenchanted”;
- Irish legal counsel to UK lender in relation to the financing of the Academy Award nominated feature film entitled “The Apprentice”;
- Irish counsel on feature film provisionally entitled “Freud’s Last Session” starring Anthony Hopkins;
- Irish counsel on feature film entitled “Flora and Son” written and directed by John Carney (Sing Street, Once) and starring Eve Hewson and Joseph Gordon Levitt;
- Irish counsel to AE OPS, LLC in relation to its financing and distribution of the feature film entitled “Small Things Like These” based on the novel of the same name written by Claire Keegan starring Cillian Murphy and Emily Watson;
- production counsel in Ireland to the Irish producers of “Valhalla” the spin off television series from the successful Vikings series, six seasons of which were shot in Ireland for MGM Entertainment Inc. and first run licensee Netflix;
- production counsel in Ireland to the Irish producers of two seasons of “Sanctuary” for AMC TV’;
- In 2023 Ruth was one of the Matheson partners involved in advising Fremantle, a British multinational television production and distribution company, alongside international law firm CMS, on its acquisition of the majority shareholding in the Element Pictures group.
- University of Cambridge (LLM)
- Trinity College Dublin (LLB)
