Located as we are in Los Angeles, the heart of the entertainment
business, we can't help getting involved in "the industry."
We have represented movie studios, record
companies and film producers, as well as "the talent." We have
successfully reorganized one of the largest theatre chains in the country, and
also advised a distressed investor on how to acquire another theatre
chain.
We even developed a very specialized niche
practice of bankruptcy "preventative medicine." In the
entertainment industry, where many players are new and / or thinly capitalized,
one always has to be concerned about the financial wherewithal of your
prospective business partners. Accordingly, we have a group of attorneys
that advise companies on how to structure new transactions (or restructure
existing ones) so as to minimize their risks in the event their business
partners experience financial difficulties.
Representative Clients and Cases:
- Edwards Theatres Circuit, Inc. – represented the debtor in a very
successful chapter 11 case
- Franchise Pictures – represent film financier in this chapter 11
bankruptcy
- General Cinemas – represented AMC Theaters, as the purchaser of
General Cinema, through a chapter 11 plan of reorganization
- Kushner-Locke – represented the debtor in a very successful
chapter 11 case
- Stan Lee Media - represented the creditors committee in this
successful chapter 11 case
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Various Film Studios – we have represented all the
major film studios, including MGM, Paramount,
Sony, Walt Disney, 20th Century Fox, in their capacities as creditors of, or
parties to executory contacts with, numerous troubled companies
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