Nick spent many years as the Head of Legal for Governance, Regulatory and Trading and the Corporation Secretary at Channel 4 before joining Reed Smith as a partner in 2011. In 2016, having brokered and acted on a deal to create an international production company owned by Channel 4 and Sacha Baron Cohen, Spelthorne TV, he joined the company as its commercial director whilst maintaining his consultancy practice at Reed Smith. Nick returned to the partnership full time in 2021. He has broad industry experience including within advertising trading and production, content distribution, broadcasting regulation, TV production (both scripted and non-scripted) and brand protection. Chambers & Partners describes Nick has having a “fantastic legal brain and industry experience and that clients value his ability to summarise issues pithily and calmly”.