Lloyd Gunton

Lloyd Gunton is Director of UK Creative Sector Incentives at Entertainment Partners.

Lloyd has more than 13 years’ experience in accounting practice, having trained in Ernst & Young’s media audit division before joining Saffery Champness, where he specialized in creative sector tax credits. In 2022 Lloyd joined FLB Accountants, which was acquired by Entertainment Partners, overseeing the firm’s creative sector tax offering, providing UK incentives support for a wide range of domestic and international clients spanning from micro-budget independent production companies and game developers to major Hollywood studios.

Lloyd supports clients during every phase of production, from prep, advising on tax credit estimates, providing formal opinions to financiers on tax credits and structuring advice to maximize incentive value, through to handling the interim and final claim processes, and right up to cash receipt. He has advised on films including No Time To Die, His Dark Materials, The Wheel of Time and the war epic 1917, as well as video games including Halo Wars 2 and the Hungry Shark series.

Widely considered an expert in the UK’s creative sector tax credits, Gunton also has extensive technical accounting experience in the film & TV sector, including audit services and reporting under the UK and US Generally Accepted Accounting Principles and the International Financial Reporting Standards.