After 4 years at Richards Butler (now Reed Smith) including secondments to MTV and ITV, Nicola moved to Endemol UK as Legal and Business Affairs Executive for 3 years and then to Jamie Oliver Limited for 6 years as Senior Legal and Business Affairs Manager for Fresh One Productions, Fat Lemon, Fresh Pictures and Jamie’s Youtube and MCN channels.

Nicola set up Mint & Co in 2016 with a vision to provide accessible, commercial business affairs support for the media and creative industries, whilst championing a flexible working ethos.

Is: down to earth, positive, tenacious and unfailingly calm in any crisis.

Loves: Interior design, the sea, good wine and her cat Lethal Basil.

With over ten years in communication and change at PwC and IBM, working in Europe and globally, followed by a stint in legal recruitment, Maisy then trained as a business coach. For the past ten years, Maisy has enjoyed coaching international business leaders for Untapped, running HR and client service reviews for media businesses, training in schools and businesses to improve communication and written for BT TV, Volleyball and Netball magazine. Maisy brings a love of connecting with people and a passion for client service. At Mint & Co Maisy manages workflow, focuses on improving and nurturing Mint & Co’s relationships with clients and consultants, and helps build and support the Mint Collective team.

Is: creative, upbeat, a problem solver, caring and curious.

Loves: cooking, skiing, The Archers, walks with Mitch the cockapoo and everything about Christmas.

Jules trained as a musician before working on the operations side of the record industry, as product manager for a variety of labels. At theatrical data specialists Purple Seven she oversaw client operations, before becoming Studio Manager for a creative agency. At Mint & Co she manages day to day operations, supporting Nicola, Maisy and the Mint Collective.

Jules is across all functions of the business aside from client relationships and consultant management. She manages social media and marketing (including the blog) consultant and client billing, our IT and trade subscriptions, organises consultant socials and internal mint Collective comms re client and industry updates. She keeps all internal databases and documents in tip-top shape and assists with biz dev.

Is: Organised, enthusiastic, broad-minded.

Loves: Cooking, Grand Designs, video games and cycling.

After completing the LPC and an LLM in Entertainment and Media Law, Sarah became an in-house business affairs advisor at the BBC. She enjoyed roles at ITV and BBC Worldwide before moving to entertainment specialists, Princess Productions where she spent 7 brilliant years in the business affairs team, becoming Head of Legal and Business Affairs.
She now works as a freelance Business Affairs Consultant, specialising in development, production and exploitation across all genres (scripted & non-scripted) for UK based independent producers.

Is: Pro-active, reliable, friendly and persuasive.

Loves:  Sun, snow, family, gin and Axl Rose.

Jenny is a production, rights and finance specialist working across scripted and non-scripted content. She has particular experience negotiating and structuring development and co-production deals. Before becoming a freelance consultant, Jenny worked in-house at Channel 5/Viacom and was a Senior Associate in the Film & TV team at Clintons.

Is: Pragmatic, responsive, analytical and a ‘people person’.

Loves: Marathon running, skiing in the French Alps, the Channel Islands, wine and the great outdoors.

Gill has over 25 years’ industry experience. She qualified at Oswald Hickson Collier in London, and then worked at London Weekend Television, Granada and the BBC before becoming Head of Legal and Business Affairs at Tiger Aspect Productions. Following a move to Yorkshire in 2008, she became freelance and has carried out consultancy work for the BBC, ITV and the talent and literary agency PFD. Gill is both a scripted and non-scripted specialist, with experience of co-productions and big budget docs and drama with multi party financing and tax credits.

Is: experienced, client friendly, flexible, focused, a good listener.

Loves: good coffee, yoga retreats, Japanese food, travel and the Yorkshire coast.

Jay has many years of extensive international legal, commercial, corporate, public and private sector experience, in the areas of technology, media, broadcast, digital, data and privacy. Jay has enjoyed roles with EOne Entertainment, Dentsu, BBC Worldwide, Sky, Fox channels, Apple and Amazon. She brings a wealth of experience in TV, film, music and theatre, advertising and technology (digital, mobile and satellite). Jay has experience of GDPR, media planning and buying, apps and tech agreements, as well as her extensive TV production, commissioning, financing and sales experience. Jay joined us in April 2020.

Is: Empathetic, helpful, cheery, problem solver, pragmatic and pro-active.

Loves: Cake! Cooking, the gym and people! 

Katharine Lewis is a production specialist (formerly with roles in the legal teams at C5/Aardman/Tigress). Bristol-based Katharine has 20 years’ experience in business affairs and started out as a freelance consultant last year following a 13-year career with Tigress Productions. Prior to Tigress, Katharine spent time at Aardman Animations and Channel 5. Katharine is a non-scripted production specialist for Mint & Co.

Is: Positive, resourceful and calm.

Loves: Reading, photography and paddleboarding.

Ellen qualified at Herbert Smith and after 4 years in the corporate teams at Herbert Smith and Fox Williams, spent 10 years as a Corporate/Commercial Lawyer and Business Affairs Adviser at ITV Plc central team and latterly Head of Legal for ITV Global Entertainment and Head of Legal ITV Studios International. Ellen brings a wealth of experience in the television broadcasting and licensing sectors primarily with distribution, corporate and commercial work.

Is: Enthusiastic, fun, friendly and diligent.

Loves: Family time, enjoying the great outdoors, running and watching a good detective or spy drama.

Husna carried out her training contract at Reed Smith, qualifying into the Media and Technology team in 2007. She moved to Channel 4 in 2009 and spent over 7 happy years at the broadcaster, providing legal advice around regulatory, governance and trading matters, with a particular focus on data protection. Since moving out of London, Husna has been working as a consultant and provides data protection and privacy guidance to a varied roster of clients.

Is: quick thinking, full of energy, sociable.

Loves: living in the countryside, social running, and vegan cooking.

Trained at Olswang and qualified into the Media Litigation team in 2006. After a further nine years at the firm, Louise decided to go it alone as a freelancer and took a contract with a major national newspaper publisher in their editorial legal department.
She has worked on a broad variety of work across a range of media platforms, including publishing, film, television and online. Louise specialises in advising on media content, as well as negotiating large numbers of publishing-related contracts each year.

Is: Pragmatic, chatty, energetic, the person who people turn to when they need advice.

Loves:  Nesting at home, days out in the fresh air, cheering on her children at swimming and football respectively and spending time (alone!) on her yoga mat.

After finishing training at Beggars Group and Statham Gill Davies, Henriette began consulting for clients in the music industry in 2000. She has held long term business affairs consultancy roles over the years at companies such as Air-Edel, Cutting Edge, Beggars and Instant Karma as well as representing individual artists, composers, producers, songwriters and managers. Henriette also has a wealth of live events experience through her experience working on London Calling. Henriette specialises in all matters music and events related.

Is: Positive, effective and devoted

Loves: Travelling, reading, good food and wine

Karthi started her business affairs life at ITV, where she worked as an Executive on the commissioning and acquisition of programmes for all ITV platforms. She was awarded a highly coveted in-house training contract and spent her commercial litigation and corporate seats at Olswang and DLA Piper respectively.

A year after qualification, she moved to media specialist law firm Sheridans, where she has spent the past five years as an Associate. At Sheridans Karthi advised on commercial and intellectual property issues associated with the development, financing, production and monetisation of cross platform content. Clients included production companies, broadcasters, content distributors, and talent.

Is: Loyal, determined, committed, enthusiastic, creative, and fun.

Loves:  Spending time with family and friends, going to the cinema and theatre, oil painting, yoga, running, and eating (lots of) cake!

Mark is a law graduate, broadcaster and radio programming specialist. Concurrent with a successful career in broadcasting,Mark established ROCK THE RADIO, a consultancy which develops custom programming concepts for brands, and completed the Legal Practice Course at BPP University Law School in London. Mark assists clients with special projects from time to time, including contract reviews.

Is: Tenacious, indefatigable and fiercely loyal.

Loves: B biscuits, running and brave people.