Professional Experience
As general counsel of Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP, Mr. Lemann oversees professional responsibility, risk management and firm transactional matters.
Mr. Lemann has extensive experience in a wide range of complex transactional matters, with an emphasis on loan and investment activities. His practice includes traditional secured and unsecured lending, private placements of debt and equity securities, business combinations (including leveraged acquisitions), joint ventures, structured finance, leasing and off-balance sheet financing, project finance, workouts and restructurings involving a variety of industries, including entertainment, financial services and energy. Within the entertainment industry, Mr. Lemann has also negotiated performer agreements, endorsement contracts, concert and tour promotion, and motion picture and television production and finance arrangements.
Memberships & Activities
Admitted to practice in New York and California.
Served as Lecturer on Law, UCLA School of Law.
Fellow, American College of Investment Counsel.
Member, Committee on Municipal Affairs of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, 1989-92: Subcommittee on Bias-Related Violence; Subcommittee on the City Council (co-Chair).
Member, California Bar Association.
Honors & Awards
Mr. Lemann was selected as one of Southern California's "Super Lawyers" for 2005.