Editing Nigel Sinclair (section)

== Early life ==

Sinclair was born in [[Corbridge]], [[Northumberland, England|Northumberland]], [[United Kingdom|England]]. His family moved to [[Galloway, Scotland|Galloway]], in southwest [[Scotland]], a few years later where he grew up.  He went to boarding school at [[Monkton Combe School]] in England.  In 1966, he attended [[Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge]], graduating in 1969.  After a short stint working as a researcher for the Department of Criminology, University of Cambridge, he qualified as a lawyer with the London firm then known as Denton, Hall and Burgin.  He practiced law in London and subsequently in the Middle East until 1980.  In 1979/1980, Sinclair attended [[Columbia University School of Law]] in New York and obtained a LAM in International Legal Studies, and qualified for the State Bar of California. In 1989, Sinclair founded his own firm, Sinclair Tennenbaum & Co., in Los Angeles. He practiced entertainment law until he retired from that practice in 1996 to found [[Intermedia]] with Guy East.