Practice Areas & Industries: Loeb & Loeb LLP

Practice/Industry Group Overview

Practice Capabilities

Loeb & Loeb has handled more motion picture, television and music industry-related financing transactions than almost any other law firm. We represent borrowers, financial institutions, completion guarantors and distributors. Our entertainment and corporate attorneys work closely together to assist companies in shaping capital structures and raising debt and equity capital.

Services Available

Our legal services related to motion picture, television and music industry financing include:

• negotiation and evaluation of every type of project financing
• structuring and documenting insurance-backed financing transactions
• complex multi-distributor "split-rights" and "gap" financings
• negative pick-up transactions
• negotiating and structuring receivables-based and asset-based lines of credit and term-credit facilities
• equity investments, foreign co-financing and foreign tax-shelter and other governmental programs, including U.K. sale-leaseback transactions and Canadian federal and provincial programs
• negotiating and structuring independent, joint venture and/or distributor-financed record labels and publishers
• restructuring, reorganization and insolvencies of entertainment companies

Clients and Industries

Borrower clients range from entertainment companies in the motion picture, television, music and new media production and distribution arena to individual producers, actors, writers, directors and entrepreneurs. We also represent most of the financial institutions involved in project financing in the entertainment industry.

Leadership in Law

Members of our entertainment finance group received high praise in the 2008 edition of the Chambers USA Guide to America's Leading Business Lawyers. Chambers ranks lawyers and law practices through interviews with clients and competitors. Chambers quoted a client as saying the "the group knows all the ins and outs of the industry" and "accolades also poured in for its international coproduction and cofinancing transactions, which are strengthened by its profound knowledge and connections to the entertainment community."

Practice Contacts

Michael (Mickey) A. Mayerson
Partner
310.282.2165
mmayerson@loeb.com

David S. Schaefer
Partner
212.407.4848
dschaefer@loeb.com

Harold A. Flegelman
Partner
310.282.2394
hflegelman@loeb.com