Entertainment law experts Gigi Morin, Lorri Charnetski and Kathy Ceroni have launched a new Toronto-based boutique firm.

The trio have joined their practices in partnership to form Morin Charnetski Ceroni LLP, which offers a wide variety of legal services in all areas of the entertainment and media industries. Those areas include development and rights, financing and collaboration, production and post-production, distribution and exhibition, licensing and merchandising, corporate, and creator and artists.

Morin, Charnetski and Ceroni have over 60 years of combined in-house and private practice experience, working with Canadian and international clients in all areas of entertainment and media law.

Morin has more than 20 years of experience advising content creators, producers and talent. She works with live-action and animation content creators and producers (narrative, documentary, factual, lifestyle, reality, children, youth, gaming and variety) on a broad range of matters. She was called to the Ontario Bar in 1997 and joined John Duncan & Associates in 1998, becoming a founding partner of Duncan Morin LLP in 2000, where she practised until its wind up this past September.

Charnetski has 23 years of experience in the media and entertainment industry, having practised at Duncan Morin LLP. She was called to the Ontario Bar in 1998 and has a broad practice involving the financing, production and exploitation of feature films, animated and live-action TV programs and other media content. She has particular expertise in production and corporate financing, Canadian content and international treaty coproduction and co-venture structures, Canadian and foreign tax incentives and the securitization of intellectual property.

Ceroni has more than 20 years of experience primarily focusing on representing Canadian and international studios, broadcasters, networks, platforms, content creators and independent producers in all aspects of the development, production, financing, licensing, distribution and merchandising of live action (scripted and unscripted), animated, interactive and live event content and projects. She was called to the Ontario Bar in 1998 and also advises content creators, authors, showrunners, writers, directors, performers and hosts on various entertainment law issues and agreements.

Their new firm “is committed to delivering technology forward, exceptional client-centric services through thoughtful and creative collaboration,” according to a news release.