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Fifth Annual Media & Entertainment Law Symposium Fordham Media and Entertainment Law Society Fifth Annual Media & Entertainment Law Symposium Monday, February 11, 2019 9:30 a.m. – 2:30 p.m. Costantino Room PROGRAM 9:30 – 10 a.m. 12:45 – 1:15 p.m. Check-In & Welcome Keynote Address • Rich Ross ’86 – Former Group President, 10 – 11 a.m. Discovery Channels; Former Chairman, Mergers in Medialand: Walt Disney Studios; Former President, Major Deals & The Quest to Consolidate Disney Channels Worldwide • Sris Chatterjee – Fordham Gabelli School of Business Professor; Gabelli Chair in Global Security 1:15 – 2:15 p.m. Analysis Finance and Business Economics Curtain Up! Legal Fundamentals of Broadway • Ian John – Partner, Kirkland & Ellis LLP (and All That Follows) • Kimberly Pittman ’99 – Senior Vice President, • Jason Baruch – Partner, Sendroff & Baruch, LLP Associate General Counsel, Corporate and • Jason Cooper – Theatre Business Affairs Securities and Assistant Secretary, CBS Corporation Executive, Creative Artists Agency • Paul Washington ’95 – Resident Fellow, • Carol Kaplan – Partner, Loeb & Loeb LLP Fordham Corporate Law Center; • Susan Mindell – Partner, Levine Plotkin Adjunct Professor, Fordham Law School & Menin LLP • Moderator: Professor Caroline Gentile, • Tom Viertel – Executive Director, Fordham Law School Commercial Theater Institute 11 – 11:15 a.m. • Moderator: Seth Stuhl, Vice President, Break Business Affairs & Legal Counsel, Disney Theatrical Group 11:15 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. Fair Play: The Legal Impact of Recent Music 2:15 – 2:30 p.m. Legislation Closing Remarks • Sarah Howes – Director and Counsel of Government Affairs and Public Policy, SAG-AFTRA • Benjamin Semel – Partner, Pryor Cashman LLP • Alice Simmons – Associate, Business & Legal Affairs, Concord Music • David Wolfert – Co-Founder, MusicAnswers.org • Moderator: Professor Derek Dessler, Fordham Law School 12:15 – 12:45 p.m. Lunch CLE CREDIT CLE credit for the program is approved in accordance with the requirements of the New York State CLE Board for a maximum of 3 transitional and non transitional credits: (3.0) professional practice. CLE course materials available at: law.fordham.edu/clematerials For information contact [email protected] Jason Baruch Sris Chatterjee Partner, Sendroff & Baruch, LLP Professor; Gabelli Chair in Global Security Analysis Finance and Business Economics, Fordham Gabelli Jason Baruch, a regular lecturer for the Commercial School of Business Theater Institute (CTI), has served as production counsel for scores of stage productions in New York and around Sris Chatterjee is a full professor in the finance and the world, including musicals such as The Cher Show, The business economics area. Band’s Visit, Beautiful – The Carole King Musical, SpongeBob Squarepants, Rock of Ages and The Producers, and plays Professor Chatterjee has taught a variety of courses, such as Network starring Bryan Cranston, Lifespan of a including Mergers and Acquisitions, Principles of Modern Fact starring Daniel Radcliffe, Burn This starring Adam Finance and Behavioral Finance, at the undergraduate, Driver, Present Laughter starring Kevin Kline, An Act graduate and executive MBA levels. In 1995, he received of God starring Jim Parsons, Fully Committed starring Fordham’s Gladys and Henry Crown Award for Faculty Jesse Tyler Ferguson and Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award Excellence at the graduate school. winners Clybourne Park and I am My Own Wife. Jason also Professor Chatterjee got his undergraduate degree in represents many not-for-profit organizations in New York mechanical engineering from the Indian Institute of City such as The Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM), Technology in Kharagpur and his postgraduate diploma Ars Nova and La Mama, as well as some of the most in management from the Indian Institute of Management, innovative and influential regional theaters around the Calcutta. He received his MPhil and PhD from Columbia country. In addition, Jason and his firm are legal counsel Business School. Before joining the Fordham faculty, to a tremendous roster of award-winning dramatists, Professor Chatterjee taught at the State University of directors and choreographers, designers, performers, New York at Buffalo, Rutgers University and Columbia orchestrators and arrangers. University. He has taught in the Key Training Program Jason is a co-chair of the Theater and Performing Arts at UBS Wealth Management, where he participated in committee of the Entertainment, Arts, Sports Law curriculum development and in writing training material. section of the New York State Bar Association, where he He also has taught in executive MBA programs at other organizes and participates in numerous lectures and panel schools. discussions about theater producing. He has served on Widely published, Professor Chatterjee’s main research the boards and/or advisory boards of some of New York’s interest is corporate finance. His work has been most dynamic not-for-profit theater companies, including showcased in the Journal of Banking and Finance, Journal HERE Performing Arts Center, Naked Angels and Pipeline of Financial Economics, Financial Management and Journal Theater. In addition to theater, Jason represents many of Financial and Quantitative Analysis. His topics of focus clients in the music industry, including recording artists include corporate debt/equity ratio, the effect of interest- and the biggest music publishers in the business, as rate uncertainty on the valuation of subordinated debt, well as print authors. He also represents movie studios, restructuring of firms in financial distress, and innovative producers, writers, actors and other talent in the film and securities. Professor Chatterjee maintains a secondary television industry. research interest in futures and options, and he has Jason was awarded his B.A. in philosophy magna cum published several papers in the Journal of Futures Markets. laude from Yale College, his law degree (J.D.) cum laude Professor Chatterjee is an associate editor of the Journal from NYU Law School and his masters of laws (LL.M.) in of Financial Stability and the International Journal of Banking, international commercial law from the University of Hong Accounting and Finance. He also sits on the editorial board Kong. Jason is admitted to the bars in both California of the International Journal of Behavioural Accounting and and New York State. He founded Sendroff & Baruch LLP Finance. in 2007 with law partner Mark Sendroff. He has been selected as a Superlawyer® annually since 2013 and is listed as one of New York’s top entertainment attorneys Jason Cooper in Best Lawyers magazine annually since 2015 and is listed Theatre Business Affairs Executive, Creative Artists Agency in Chambers® USA Guide to the World’s Best Lawyers. www. sendroffbaruch.com. Jason Cooper is a Theatre Business Affairs Executive at leading entertainment and sports agency Creative Artists Agency (CAA). Cooper works in the New York office and collaborates with the company’s theatre agents in rep- resenting actors, directors, choreographers, playwrights, composers, and lyricists for theatrical productions off- television networks; software developers and publishers; and on Broadway, and around the world. filmmakers; visual artists; and galleries. These clients are based around the world and range from global corpora- Cooper began his career in the entertainment department tions and other established businesses, to small, entre- of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton and Garrison, LLP. He preneurial startups, to investors. joined CAA in 2006. Cooper graduated from Harvard College with a degree in Social Studies and received his J.D. from Columbia Law Caroline Gentile School. Following law school, Cooper clerked for the Hon- Associate Professor, Fordham Law School orable Denise Cote of the Southern District of New York. Caroline M. Gentile is an Associate Professor of Law at Cooper has given seminars and appeared on panels at Fordham University School of Law, where she played an Columbia Law School, the New York University MFA integral role in the development of its Corporate Law Graduate Musical Theatre program, and the American Center and served, for two years, as the Center’s Aca- Bar Association’s Forum on the Entertainment and Sports demic Director. Professor Gentile teaches Corporations Industries. He currently serves on the board of New Dra- (Business Associations), Corporate Finance, Mergers and matists. Acquisitions, and Securities Regulation. Her research in- terests lie in the integration of economic analysis, princi- pally theories of the firm and finance theory, into the legal Derek Dessler analysis of the organization of business enterprises and Adjunct Professor, Fordham Law School the operation of the capital markets (including the market for sovereign bonds). Her work has been published in the Derek Dessler is an attorney with over 20 years of ex- Duke Law Journal, the Emory Law Journal, and the Journal of perience focusing on entertainment and media, new Law & Contemporary Problems. technology, the arts, and related intellectual property and corporate matters. Professor Gentile received her undergraduate degrees, summa cum laude, in Economics and Political Science from His work routinely includes matters at the intersection of The Ohio State University. She studied in the Law and intellectual property rights and new technology, and he Economics Program at Yale University, and she received regularly advises clients on issues relating to the ongoing her law degree from the Yale Law School, where she was convergence
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