Antoni Poyiadzis
Partner, TV Legal and Business Affairs
ABOUT
Antoni has recently joined Abbas Media Law as Partner – TV Legal and Business Affairs for scripted and non-scripted content. Antoni specialises in providing advice to clients in the creative industries on all forms of business affairs, commercial and intellectual property matters in relation to all aspects of development, financing, production and exploitation of scripted and non-scripted content.
Antoni began his legal career at A+E Networks UK where after a few years in compliance, Antoni pioneered the creation of A+E’s first Legal and Business Affairs Department and played a key role in A+E’s move into commissioning original content for its channels.
EXPERIENCE
After five brilliant years at A+E, Antoni worked as an in-house lawyer for independent producers such as RDF (Banijay), Boundless (Fremantle) and Renegade Pictures (Warner Bros.) advising on a range of matters across all forms of non-scripted programming such as Eat Well For Less, Tipping Point, The Apprentice, 60 Days on the Street, Great Railway Journeys, Grand Designs, Ben Fogle: New Lives in the Wild and Our Yorkshire Farm.
Prior to joining ABBAS Media Law, Antoni was Head of Legal for Objective Media Group where he led a team across all of OMG’s scripted and non-scripted programming, including advising on multiple HETV scripted productions and developments, such as The Thief, His Wife and the Canoe, Deceit, The Gold Seasons 1 and 2, Toast of Tinseltown, The Larkins and non-scripted programming such as Motorway Cops, The Real AC12, The Kill List, My Dead Body, Naked Education, Gordon, Gino and Fred, Lingo and many more.
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WHEN NOT WORKING
Antoni is an avid golfer, enjoys going on walks and being outside as much as possible. When he is not enjoying the outdoors, he is either playing the piano, pretending to work out in the gym or running his three daughters to and from swimming, football and dance classes. When it’s time to relax, Antoni enjoys watching anything with a great film score.