Manatt Entertainment Tombstone Brochure 2019 V3.Indd
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Manatt Entertainment REPRESENTATIVE TRANSACTIONS We get the deals done. Perfect World Pictures Huayi Brothers Media Corp. Five-Year, 50-Film Co-Financing Co-Financing and Distribution Agreement With Universal Pictures Agreement With STX Entertainment $500 million Counsel to Counsel to Perfect World Pictures Huayi Brothers Media Corp. Beijing Weiying Technology Tang Media Partners Company Ltd. Joint Venture With Tencent Distribution Agreement With and IM Global STX Entertainment Counsel to Beijing Weiying Technology Counsel to Company Ltd. Tang Media Partners Infore Capital Sony Pictures Entertainment Management Co. Co-Finance Agreement With Legal Advisory Services for LSC Film Corp. for Sony’s Birth of the Dragon and 2014–2017 Film Slate The King’s Daughter $200 million Counsel to Counsel to Infore Capital Management Co. Sony Pictures Entertainment 1 Perfect World Pictures Sony Pictures Entertainment Ultimates-Based Facility With Distribution Agreement and JPMorgan and East West Bank Interparty Agreement With JPMorgan Chase, Fosun Capital and Studio 8 $250 million Counsel to Counsel to Perfect World Pictures Sony Pictures Entertainment R IMAX Corp. Tang Media Partners Co-Finance, Production and TV Slate Co-Finance Fund Distribution Agreement for Ten Films $50 million Counsel to Counsel to IMAX Corp. Tang Media Partners Goldman Sachs The Tornante Co. Structured Joint Ownership With Made-for-Internet Series Deals With CBS of CSI Franchise and Transfer Netfl ix for BoJack Horseman and of International Distribution Tuca and Bertie and with Amazon for Undone Counsel to Counsel to Goldman Sachs The Tornante Co. 2 Perfect Village Sony Pictures Entertainment Literary Option Purchase Agreement Slate Co-Finance Agreement for for the novel Shanghai Grand Virtual Reality Content Counsel to Counsel to Perfect Village Sony Pictures Entertainment CBS Broadcasting Inc. Rigmora Holdings Ltd. Multiyear Finance, Production and Investment in and Majority Ownership Distribution Agreement for Late-Night of New Republic Pictures Programming Slate Counsel to Counsel to CBS Broadcasting Inc. Rigmora Holdings Ltd. Lead Investor ProSiebenSat.1 Equity Investment in Solstice Studios Made-for-Internet Series Deal With Amazon for Bosch Counsel to Counsel to Lead Investor ProSiebenSat.1 3 Manatt Entertainment With more than 450 lawyers and consultants in nine offi ces— CONTACTS: including the entertainment centers of Los Angeles and New Lindsay Conner York City and the regulatory center of Washington, D.C.— [email protected] Manatt is a law and consulting fi rm that delivers innovative, 310.312.4229 top-quality service to a global array of high-profi le clients in Neil Sacker every phase of business enterprise. [email protected] 310.312.4143 A Powerhouse in Entertainment Manatt is consistently ranked among the top entertainment Sophia Yen law practices in America by Chambers USA and U.S. News [email protected] 310.312.4122 & World Report. We were named Law Firm of the Year by the Association of Media & Entertainment Counsel. Our lawyers have been named as top dealmakers by Best Lawyers in AREAS OF FOCUS: America, Variety and The Hollywood Reporter. Our Manatt Finance agreements Entertainment practice is international, with a broad range of for fi lm, television and digital media high-profi le clients in fi lm and television, music, digital media, sports, video games and advertising. Mergers and acquisitions Industry Leaders in Film and Television Production Manatt is the go-to fi rm for structuring complex contracts, agreements innovative fi nancing and distribution strategies on a Distribution worldwide basis, and for guidance for both established agreements and emerging fi lm, television and digital media companies. Rights acquisitions Manatt’s Entertainment practice handles fi nance, production Licensing and sales and distribution agreements for both individual projects and agreements entire slates and libraries of content; mergers and acquisitions Talent and executive of entertainment companies and assets; intellectual property employment contracts issues; talent, union and guild contracts; rights acquisitions; Union and guild and licensing and sales agreements. Our lawyers have deep contracts experience in debt and equity fi nancings involving private and public sources to fund major studio and independent projects. Connecting in a Digital Media World Manatt is helping shape the future of new digital media. Manatt Digital provides multidisciplinary legal advice and business consulting, and Manatt Venture Fund makes direct investments in select clients in the digital media space. We work with our clients to create new business models in the face of rapidly changing technology. While helping major entertainment and media companies expand their businesses to digital platforms, we also represent small fi rms seeking to be the next YouTube—entrepreneurs with transformational technologies for the delivery of digital content. 5 Attorney Advertising. Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Prior Advertising. Attorney Albany Chicago Los Angeles New York Orange County Palo Alto Sacramento San Francisco Washington, D.C. Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP manatt.com © 2019.