MARTIN S. COOPER BA LLB

Martin is a solicitor and businessman who has worked for a number of major law firms in Sydney, New York and London as well as operating his own practice for the last 25 years. As a lawyer he has a higher degree in tax and trade practices law and has specialised in entertainment and copyright law.
As such a specialist, he spent 4 years at Network Ten and subsequently was General Manager Corporate Planning at the News Corporation Limited. Here he worked closely with Rupert Murdoch on the evolution of his plans for TV and film in Australia and world wide as well as on the acquisition of the London Times, Ansett Airlines and The Herald & Weekly Times. At this time he also was CEO of R&R Films, the production company for the film “Gallipoli”.

As a lawyer he has been involved in the financing of approximately 70 feature films and many documentaries and television programs. He has also advised on more than 20 Offer Documents for public offers for films and has issued seven in the name of his licensed dealer company.

He has been a director of film and television production Beyond Group, television stations Ch10 in Sydney and Melbourne and has owned and operated a television station in Western Australia .

More recently, Martin has been CEO of multimedia investment fund, the Australian Multimedia Enterprise Limited, and has worked in venture capital for information industry start- ups and related businesses. He has worked closely with Allen & Buckeridge, which acquired the AME.
Martin has had extensive experience in international financing arrangements for games, completion bonding for games and the games market place. He has attended many international gaming conferences and markets. He has extensive connections with publishers, financiers and bonding companies as well as lawyers in those areas in and US.
He is or has been recently an investor in and advisor to a number of game’s development companies including Team Bondi, Ratbag, Microforte and Eball Games, as well as software and media services companies Hubonline and Rising Sun Pictures.
He is and has been director of several listed companies, and, through his directorship of Lloyd Cooper & Associates Ltd has had a dealer’s license with which he issued a number of prospectuses for films .He is also a Principal Adviser to IT investment bank Gramercy Investment Advisers in West Coast US, China and Australia.

Married to Kathy with son Ben and daughter Lucy, Martin is a keen yachtsman and has been for 30 years a Trustee of the Ted Noffs Foundation and is Vice President of the Gut Foundation of Australia.