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Matt Thompson has a wide-ranging transactional entertainment practice representing studios, networks, financial institutions, equity investors, radio syndication companies, completion guarantors, distributors, sales agents, producers, directors, writers, and actors.
Among his transactional matters, Mr. Thompson has represented: - Aramid Entertainment, a bridge and gap financier, on a number of its slate and single-picture loans.
- A major independent film production company in the financing and distribution of numerous films and in the licensing of a film library in excess of 500 films.
- The owner of the only unproduced Hunter S. Thompson book in the licensing of film rights to Warner Bros. and Initial Entertainment Group for a movie to star Johnny Depp.
- A television production company in the syndication of 175 hours of television programming.
- A well-known British celebrity in the creation of an international consumer product brand.
- Premiere Radio Networks, the largest syndicator of radio programming in the U.S., in all of their significant talent negotiations including Whoopi Goldberg, Dr. Laura, Rush Limbaugh, Steve Harvey and Ryan Seacrest.
- A major producer of children’s television programming in more than 30 transactions in the last year resulting in seven pilots and two series.
- A high-net-worth individual in the formation of a film fund and the acquisition and production of initial projects.
- A major independent television production company in the disposition of its assets.
- A venture fund in the creation and sale of a significant internet program and the formation of a professional sports league.
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| American Bar Association; Beverly Hills Bar Association |
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Author- “Production Presale Financing Contracts Form Complex Web of Rights and Obligations,” Entertainment Law & Finance, April 2000
- “Triggering the Minimum Film Guarantee Obligation,” Entertainment Law & Finance, March 1998
- “International Film License Agreements,” Entertainment Law & Finance, May 1997
- Co-author, “Tax Issues in Movie Transactions,” Entertainment Law & Finance, December 1996, January and February 1997
- “Private Offerings For Low-Budget Filmmakers,” Entertainment Law & Finance, January 1996
Other Activities- Listed in Chambers USA, Media and Entertainment (2008-2009)
- Frequent lecturer on various entertainment issues
- Co-Chair of the UCLA Entertainment Symposium Advisory Committee
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| California, 1991 |
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| J.D., University of California, Hastings College of Law, 1991 |
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| B.A., University of California - Berkeley, 1988 |
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