Razwana AKRAM

Razwana Akram is a Partner at Simons Muirhead & Burton a London based media law firm.

Razwana provides advice on all aspects of development, production, financing and distribution as well as media finance.

She advises clients from all sectors of the film and television industries including Prescience Film Finance, leading UK/European Producers, EIS and SEIS Schemes. 

Professional Highlights:

- advising Universal in relation to its funding of the films  A Fantastic Fear of Everything (starring Simon Pegg and Alan Drake) and Storage 24 (starring Noel Clarke, Colin O’Donoghue and Laura Haddock);

- advising Prescience Film Finance in relation to its funding of the films: Madame Bovary (starring Mia Wasikowska and Paul Giamatti), and Chef (starring Jon Favreau, Sofia Vergara, Dustin Hoffman and Scarlett Johansson);

- advising Prescience in relation to its funding of the upcoming BBC/PBS TV mini-series Wolf Hall (starring Damian Lewis and Mark Rylance); and

- advising a senior financer in relation to its funding of the film: Grimes on the Beach to be made of an open-air staging of Benjamin Britten's opera Peter Grimes on Aldeburgh Beach. The opera was performed as part of Aldeburgh Music Festival's programme in June 2013.