Fredric I. Bernstein Partner +1.310.788.4570 | [email protected] 2029 Century Park East, Suite 2600 Los Angeles, CA 90067-3012
Practices Fred Bernstein advises clients on the legal issues surrounding the creation, financing, Intellectual Property distribution and branding of entertainment content. Licensing His work in these areas includes negotiating and structuring deals relating to the Corporate development, financing, production and distribution of feature films, television Mergers and programming, video games and other forms of entertainment content across all media Acquisitions platforms. He also represents brand marketers in transactions relating to film and television productions and other media. Industries FOCUS: Fred brings an insider's understanding of the entertainment industry gained from his Entertainment and years as a top studio executive. As president of the Columbia TriStar Motion Picture Media Companies, Fred oversaw the business and operations of Columbia Pictures, TriStar Entertainment and Pictures, Sony Pictures Classics, Sony Pictures Releasing and Columbia TriStar Film Media Litigation Distributors International. Before that he served as senior vice president of the MCA Motion Picture Group, where he managed the operations of Universal Pictures and its Entertainment and Media Transactions affiliates, and as president of worldwide production and senior vice president of business affairs at Columbia Pictures. Recognition Fred is a co-founder of ESN.com, an e-commerce website and communications platform Super Lawyers, for film, television and commercial production professionals and has produced three 2005–2015 independent films. He is an adjunct professor at the University of Southern California The International School of Cinematic Arts and a founding board member of the Performing Arts Theater of Who's Who of the Handicapped. Sports & Entertainment Memberships Lawyers, 2013 • Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Executive Branch Education • State Bar of California JD, University of California, Los Speaking Engagements & Presentations Angeles, School of • Panelist, New Media Wheeling and Dealing – Gaining the Strategic Advantage | Law, Order of the Digital Hollywood Fall Conference, Marina del Rey, California (October 21–24, Coif 2013) BA, University of • Pennsylvania, cum Moderator, A Primer for Representing Producers | 2013 Institute on Entertainment laude Law and Business, Los Angeles, California (October 5, 2013)
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• Panelist, New Media Wheeling and Dealing – Gaining the Strategic Advantage | Bar Admissions Digital Hollywood Spring Conference, Marina del Rey, California (April 29–May 2, California
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