Julia Adams

Julia advises clients in relation to a wide range of commercial, business and personal matters including structuring, corporate governance, succession planning, mergers and acquisitions including cross-border transactions, sale and purchase of business, establishing not-for-profit organisations, licensing, and intellectual property including trade mark registration. Her private client practice includes estate planning, trusts and estate administration.

In particular, Julia advises television, film and digital media producers at all stages of developing, financing, producing and exploiting their projects, including licensing, merchandising and distribution. She works with producers and other creatives in all areas including feature film and documentary, and has a particular interest and experience in animation. She works closely with her clients providing a full range of legal and business affairs services.

Julia’s clients include producers, publishers, writers, designers, animators, performers, directors, talent agents, web, software and game developers, not-for-profit organisations and a wide variety of small-to-medium size enterprises.

Julia is also the Executive Producer of many television series and film projects including The Bureau of Magical Things, and the Netflix Original series Mako Mermaids, produced by Jonathan M Shiff Productions, The Pout Pout Fish from Like A Photon Creative and Shaun Tan’s Tales from Outer Suburbia from Highly Spirited and Flying Bark, amongst many others.

Julia is the Secretary of the Natalie Miller Fellowship.

Julia has been with Shiff & Company since its formation in 1999, and is the Managing Principal of the firm.

Contact
+61 3 8611 0402 
jadams@shiffco.com.au