Contract Management Services

Here is how this works in practice. Irish contract running lives at the intersection of two legal systems and one of the most aggressive tax rebates structures in Europe. Our legal team builds each production package around Section 481. This has the Republic's 32% rebates on Irish and EEA-resident crew costs plus the 40% regional uplift outside Dublin and Cork. This has issuing the qualifying-firm structures. Cultural-test certifications through the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media, and Revenue Commissioners drawdown packages that production accountants need to release the credit.

Here is the short of it. We work daily with Screen Producers Ireland (SPI), the trade body that publishes the master agreements ruling producer-crew relationships, and with SIPTU (Services Industrial Professional and Technical Union) and Irish Equity for performer agreements. Our templates cover producer deals, director chains-of-title, talent option-purchase agreements, cast quotes, daily and weekly crew deal memos, runner agreements, and the location release forms needed for filming at Trinity College Dublin. Phoenix Park. The Guinness Storehouse. Powerscourt Estate, Ardmore Studios Bray, Ashford Studios Wicklow, Troy Studios Limerick, the Aran Islands, Skellig Michael, and the full Wild Atlantic Way.

Here is the breakdown. Cross-border shoots create tricky contract topology that we manage daily. When a project shoots both Republic and Northern Ireland. This has common for Game of Thrones-scale series moving between Ashford Studios and Titanic Studios Belfast, or for shoots covering the Antrim Coast through to the Cliffs of Moher. This has we structure parallel entities under Section 481 and HMRC's UK Audio-Visual Expenditure Credit (AVEC, 34% with potential 40% indie uplift). With NI Protocol customs forms ruling gear movement across the border. Our team sets up with Northern Ireland Screen.

Here is what that looks like on the ground. The DfC (Department for Communities) on UK-side records. Manages SAG-AFTRA and DGA reciprocity for US shoots running through Ireland. Files SCAPR global royalty forms through RAAP for performers. Processes IMRO/PRS music rights clearances on the score side. Standard contracts deliver in 24 hours. Tricky co-production agreements in 2-5 business days. Rush services ready same-day for deal-memo modifications. EUR-GBP rate running is built into each dual-jurisdiction package.