Sloane Chartered Certified Accountants & Registered Auditors & Co.

36 - 38 Westbourne Grove, Newton Road, London W2 5SH

Tel 020 7221 3292 and 020 1084 Fax 020 7229 4810

E-mail: mail@sloane.co.uk

DAVID JOHN SLOANE CURRICULUM VITAE

My full name is David John Sloane. I am a Fellow of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants; a member of the Academy of Experts and a founder member of The Expert Witness Institute; a recognised expert on the Law Society's Register of Expert Witnesses, and a recognised Expert on the Expert Register of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants - in all these capacities specialising in the film, television and music industries.

I am the founder and principal of Sloane & Co LLP, a practising firm of accountants that was established in 1974. I qualified in December 1972 with Coopers & Lybrand, and was admitted as a Member of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants in 1973 and as a Fellow in 1979. The practice specialises in the entertainment industry and derives approximately 60%-70% of its income from those fields.

I have an in depth knowledge of the entertainment industry, and the practice, in addition to looking after numerous artists also represents production companies, distributors, directors, producers, studios, music publishers and songwriters, amongst its clients. I actively assist film, music and TV clients in running and further developing their domestic and international businesses and “networking” for them.

I was the reporting accountant retained by Gilbert O'Sullivan in the case of O'Sullivan-v-Management Agency and Music Limited and others (1983 3 All ER 351) which set new law and led to a major re-drafting of all subsequent record, management and music publishing agreements.

I have expertise in royalty audits and records, music publishing and all types of sub licensing agreements, and have also been asked to value both music publishing, record, video and film catalogues.

The practice has a litigation support team for matters in the film, television and music industries, with some instructions being settled prior to a hearing, others having led to a full hearing.

I have also been an associate producer on productions for BBC TV, and a speaker at the BBC and several music centres of learning, as well as at entertainment seminars in the UK, Israel, France, Italy, America and the Far East, and have been the subject of articles in Music Week, M (MCPS/PRS) trade journal, The Evening Standard, The Guardian and BBC, and a contributor to numerous articles.

I am a member of the Creative Industries Group, a consultative group convened by the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants to make recommendations and meet with various organisations and Government departments including, Tessa Jowell, Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, on the value of intellectual property rights, the difficulty in the valuation, the lack of understanding of their work within the investment industry and the problems SME's encounter in raising finance in this sector.