He acts for a number of banks including Natixis Coficiné, Bank Leumi, HSBC, Royal Bank of Scotland and others, as well as being regularly instructed by The British Film Institute, The Doha Film Institute and London Pacific Finance. He also represents a number of leading independent financiers/producers including Qwerty Films (Michael Kuhn), Endgame Entertainment, Mike Leigh and Potboiler Productions (Gail Egan) as well as the completion guarantors, European Film Bonds. During his career he has worked on hundreds of films in various capacities. He is also a well-regarded speaker on the annual ‘Inside Pictures’ course for film executives.

Recently, he and his team have acted on the financing/production of a wide variety of films including ‘A Most Wanted Man’ and ‘A Little Chaos’ for Potboiler Productions, Mike Leigh’s Untitled 13 based on the life of the painter J.M.W. Turner (for Thin Man Films), ‘Grace of Monaco’, ‘Suite Francaise’ and ‘Queen and Country’ (for Natixis Coficine) and complex revolving film finance facilities (for Bank Leumi). His team also continues to act for HSBC and RBS on film sale leaseback restructurings. Since European Film Bonds opened its London office three years ago his team has acted for them on over twenty transactions including ‘Romeo & Juliet’, ‘Dom Hemingway’, ‘Diana’ and ‘Filth’.

Richard is the chair of the highly critically acclaimed theatre company, Cheek By Jowl.