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21 2015 NEW PARTNERS AND COUNSEL

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ON THE COVER (left to right):

Ronald Wheeler Senior VP, Content Protection Fox Entertainment Group Beverly Frank Executive VP, Business Affairs & Operations 19 Entertainment Inc.

Shola Ajewole Senior Director, Business & Legal Affairs Fox Sports

Rozanna Tesler Fried Vice President, Business & Legal Affairs Fullscreen

Jack Whigham Agent Creative Artists Agency (CAA)

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We Are Weil The Lights, The Sets, The Lawyers . . . That’s Entertainment!

or four decades and counting, Weil attorneys and alumni have been at the forefront of the largest, most complex deals, and precedent-setting litigations involving both traditional and new media. Only a handful of global law firms can even compare with our depth, breadth, history, and promise for developing the Fmedia and entertainment industry’s strongest legal talent. While our lawyers may not win an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, or Tony for advising actors, directors, writers, musicians, designers, and broadcast and cable companies, we salute some of Weil’s many stars in this sector and devote this Media & Entertainment issue to their contributions. In the following pages, you will read where we interview one of many associates and alumni guidance about five former associates – Weil alums who serve in a chief on navigating to and through mavericks who showed spirit, legal officer role. In this issue, leading media giants like Viacom, independence, and originality by Joseph Salvo, General Counsel CBS, and Univision. packing their bags and heading out of HIT Entertainment, shares Finally, we share with you some of West to follow their passion and highlights of his career and the Firm’s historic representations, pursue careers in Hollywood. discusses the industry trends and emblematic of our depth in the Whether it was collaborating on pressing issues that keep him M&E space and led by veteran popular reality TV shows like engaged as counselor and business partners who have trained and Keeping Up with the Kardashians, advisor to the leading preschool developed hundreds of Weil working on marketing and concert entertainment company that owns attorneys, both past and present. In deals to promote the next American iconic brands like Barney, Thomas addition, this issue sheds light on Idol, or negotiating terms for the and Friends, and Bob the Builder. recent litigation wins and next movie project for actors like Our Media & Entertainment issue transactions led by rising star junior Colin Farrell and Spider-Man’s also keeps you abreast of firm partners who represent the next Andrew Garfield, our cover story, news, announcements, and events, generation to take on the industry’s Media Mavericks Take On such as the recent election of our most pressing issues. We hope that Tinseltown, will inspire and 2015 partners and counsel, a collectively, these stories will enlighten as to where Weil training WNBA Madison Square Garden reinforce Weil’s preeminence as the can take you. event for alumnae, and the latest go-to legal advisor to media and We also introduce a new feature, installment of our career entertainment giants for many the General Counsel Q&A column, exploration series, which provides years to come.

Kito Huggins Director, Executive Administration and Global Alumni Programs

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Five Alumni Who Made It in Hollywood Share Their Stories

We AreWe WeilAre Weil his past September, five former associates who have successfully transitioned from law firm life to in-house and business roles at top media and entertainment companies convened for a networking “power luncheon” at BOA Steakhouse in West THollywood. They sat down with Kito Huggins, Director of the Firm’s global alumni program, and discussed the divergent paths they have taken, the high-stakes industry issues Media at the top of their minds, and the most fascinating projects of their career so far.

which was “very demanding, but The Risk-Taker very rewarding because his client “There’s a list was absurd – it was, Tom Mavericks Jack Whigham Cruise, Julia Roberts, Meryl Streep, constant mantra Creative Artists Agency (CAA) Nicole Kidman.” Jack continued, Motion Picture Talent department “Kevin gave me enormous in our business co-head proximity to those kinds of artists. And then he allowed me to start that you start signing young artists and take Picture this. A young lawyer works gambles on some people, and they over every day Take On his tail off, lands a spot at one of paid off.” Jack has great admiration

the world’s premier law firms. Not for all four partners – Richard with your client

only that, he’s enjoying the ride, Lovett, Kevin Huvane, Bryan Lourd, and Doc O’Connor. – that you the work, even the long hours. “ Then one day he quits for a job One of the glamorous parts of underpromise in the mailroom of a Hollywood the job, of course, is the travel, Tinseltown talent agency. All right, it’s the best especially film festival-hopping – and overdeliver. known Hollywood agency. But Cannes, Sundance, Berlin, Toronto still. Who is this guy and what’s – bursts of dealmaking in New York going on? and London, and if you’re lucky, the Meet Jack Whigham, one of the awards circuit. “For me, there’s an most successful young agents enormous amount of travel, which I in Hollywood and a former Weil enjoy. It’s put me in everything from associate in the Miami office who meeting with Mikhail Gorbachev was recruited by Jeff Tabak and last summer in Russia to hear him cut his teeth in Structured Finance talk about the Reykjavík Summit, with the likes of Barry Frank, which he thinks could be a good Mike Bond, Nellie Camerik, and TV idea, to traveling to Cuba with Richard Morrison. Benicio Del Toro, and sitting with Che Guevara’s son, who showed “Being a lawyer and working at us around.” a place like Weil, there was an intensity that I was quickly able to The Talent Agent’s Key acclimate to easier – attention to Challenges detail, the ability to outwork people, And now as a rising connecting dots.” star at CAA and co- That experience provided Jack the head of the Motion discipline and diligence to learn Picture Talent the business of representing talent Department, Jack from the ground up. He quickly has his eye on the key caught the eye of CAA partner issues confronting Kevin Huvane, one of the biggest the business. The talent agents anywhere. He worked migration of some for Kevin for almost two years, of the best material 5

Jack Whigham from film to cable television is that definitely can usurp profits in recipe is sharing information. You one. Another is the even greater other places.” can only read so many projects, importance of specialized movies, All of these issues affect the and you’re constantly trying to such as “event” films – Batman, main job of the agent: advocating connect the dots of material to Spider-Man, the Marvel films – for clients and getting them the clients, and actors to directors and genre-specific films like best work, the best deals, and and studios.” And though CAA is comedies and horror films, which the longest careers possible, very competitive in the industry, attract lucrative and growing which includes convincing them within the agency “we’ve fostered a foreign sales in places like Brazil, that achieving longevity is harder generous team-oriented approach.” China, and Russia. with social media. The big stars But competition with other That means fewer dramas, which don’t always realize that they agencies is fierce. “Other agents are harder to get made, harder to lose privacy and mystery by being spend a lot of time calling your

MEDIA MAVERICKS market, and don’t travel as well everywhere. clients to be disruptive. It’s one of overseas. The global market is Another way to serve clients is the businesses I’ve seen where growing enormously, and that’s to negotiate endorsements. “In there’s a very open agenda to why a lot of the studios are a perfect world the stars are disrupt a relationship. I don’t enjoy it focused on films that can play matched with the product they are – I try not to take part in it – but it’s internationally, which are usually actually passionate about or that part of this business.” movie-star-driven. they are organically associated So how do you keep your As for event movies, Jack knows with.” But in the end, actors need clients happy and less open to quite a bit about the Friday-night to work and make money, and “disruption”? Jack’s advice to drama of launching films that advertisers need to advertise. So attorneys serving clients: “There’s will either sink or swim over a other revenue streams – whether a constant mantra in our business single weekend. Films debuting on it’s an endorsement, short-term that you start over every day with cable TV at least have a life cycle. content, digital – all become part of your client – that you underpromise Having a balance between the two the mix. and overdeliver.” Agents also live platforms keeps him saner. Is he at the beck and call of with the knowledge that “often your Finally, digital and technology star clients? As far as Jack is clients don’t go to work unless you challenges are constant – how concerned, that’s a myth. “The pick up the phone, and then there’s to balance the needs of theater hardest part of my schedule is the the artistry and vulnerability – how owners against the potential administrative work associated with do we protect that and respect it of home digital delivery – and working at CAA and co-running the and empathize with it. That doesn’t everyone in the industry worries talent department. We have a lot of happen 9 to 5 – only when you live it about piracy, “a giant issue because staff meetings because our secret and breathe it.”

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We Are Weil Making Inroads in Media & Entertainment

n Thursday, October 23, a Group. This session was part of a panel of alumni and clients continuing series of workshops shared best practices and launched as part of the Beyond Weil Olessons learned on their respective Career Exploration Initiative, which career paths from private practice to facilitates professional connections working in-house for media and among Weil attorneys, alumni, and entertainment companies. Speakers clients of the Firm. We invite our included Jonathan Schwartz, alums who would like to be General Counsel and Executive Vice considered for speaking opportunities, President of Univision Communications or to serve as associate and alumni Inc., Michael A. Rona, Vice President career mentors to contact Kito and Assistant General Counsel of Huggins. Mark your calendar for the CBS Broadcasting, Inc. and Matthew next session, which will take place in Schwartz, Content Distribution and the New York office on January 29, Marketing Counsel in Viacom Media 2015 and will focus on lawyering Networks’ Business and Legal Affairs within nonprofits and board service. n

Beyond Weil

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weil.com/alumni From Fifth Avenue to Hollywood reporting to in that role. Rozanna The Dealmaking Boulevard tracked down someone who knew the assistant to her soon-to-be Dynamic Duo As many Weil attorneys do, boss, and before she knew it, her Rozanna eagerly signed up for resume was on his desk and she Shola Ajewole pro bono assignments during her had lined up a job interview. Her Senior Director, tenure at the Firm. But for Rozanna, best piece of advice for lawyers, Business & Legal Affairs pro bono work wound up serving as or for anyone else, is to keep a Fox Sports a gateway to a career in Hollywood. constant focus on networking. Rozanna developed a budding Rozanna Tesler Fried interest in the entertainment “You can’t just drop off and pick up Vice President, business while working pro bono networking,” Rozanna said. “You Business & Legal Affairs for an organization that raised do a deal with somebody and then MEDIA MAVERICKS Fullscreen funding for films. The group invited you always want to ask them to her to film festivals and lectures, coffee or to lunch, just so there’s a inspiring Rozanna enough that face to the name, and then you just she signed up for an online class keep them in your directory and Rozanna Tesler Fried and Shola follow up.” Ajewole, both third-year associates offered by UCLA to learn more about the entertainment business. at the time, were working late one Connecting over Old-School In an unexpected turn in her career, night in the New York office when Hip-Hop they decided to get some fresh air Rozanna decided to reach out to a on the plaza of the GM Building. head hunter in California to explore Like Rozanna, Shola wasn’t shy The conversation that ensued was work opportunities there. about reaching out and making just the start of where they find “It all went very fast because it connections. At the Firm, Shola themselves today. was an idea in my head and then befriended and received a great suddenly, it was like boom, I was deal of support from Lynda Braun, The two colleagues had started flying out and meeting with people,” Benjamin Marks, and Adam discussing their interests and life Rozanna said. “I’d never even been Hemlock, whom he met at a goals, realizing then that they to California in my life.” summer event. Adam and Shola both were eyeing a legal career never worked in the same group, Prospective employers out West in media and entertainment. The but they happened to share the were impressed by Rozanna’s surprising discovery prompted the same taste in music. two colleagues to make a pact to experience at Weil. During her time support each other in that common at the Firm, Rozanna had worked “We bonded over hip-hop, good pursuit. Rozanna was first to move alongside partners Matthew old-school hip-hop,” Shola said. “It’s out West, and when it was Shola’s Bloch, Heather Emmel, and Todd funny the different things that will turn to job-hunt in California, she Chandler on high-level, headline- connect you.” offered him a place to crash. grabbing deals like Hertz’s historic Growing up in Rochester, New York $15 billion leveraged buyout and with parents from Nigeria, Shola’s “I wouldn’t be out here if she didn’t subsequent IPO. extend hospitality to me, to come family was one of the first to out for a week and check out L.A. “Having Weil on your resume is the integrate into a white neighborhood. and enable me to have interviews,” best street cred ever,” Rozanna While he is a naturally outgoing Shola said. “I literally stayed on said. “People wouldn’t ask me, ‘Can person, Shola also made it a point her couch.” you handle this amount of work? to speak up. Can you juggle things? Can you be “It had always been ‘How do I Since that time, both Weil alumni in a stressful environment? Can you have successfully carved out communicate with people who multitask?’ … If I worked at Weil, may not know me or identify a place for themselves in the those were givens.” entertainment biz, with Rozanna with me. Let them see who I am now serving as vice president After passing the California before they reach conclusions,’” of business and legal affairs at bar, Rozanna began networking Shola said. “I talked to everybody Fullscreen, one of the biggest tirelessly in her search for an top-down at Weil. That was my networks on YouTube, while Shola in-house position. She found an approach. I really wanted to prove is senior director of business and opening at 20th Century Fox to myself that I was capable of the legal affairs at Fox Sports. Theatrical Productions and looked work but also that I was capable online for any information she could of interacting with everybody and 8 The two remain good friends. find on the person she would be making friends.”

Shola Ajewole

We Are Weil Shola Outshines on the and worked on underlying license shops in the industry to learn about Sunset Strip agreements needed for content scripted work. In his new role, on shows, which were mostly Shola worked on deals with writers, Employers saw Shola’s background nonscripted. He eventually left E! directors, and actors, including at Weil as the perfect preparation to join SOAPnet to work on the John Leguizamo and Shonda for dealing with the different business affairs side, only to learn Rhimes. personalities, high-pressure months later that the network From ABC Studios, Shola moved situations, and fast-paced work in would be going off the air. “That his new field. over to Fox Sports, just in time was a challenging situation,” Shola for the launch of national cable Shola kept up the networking after said. “But the people with whom I network Fox Sports 1. He worked joining Comcast Entertainment had continued to build as a network on original and studio programming Group for two years, where he really came through.” as well as various sports rights worked as production counsel It turned out that the husband deals, including with the NFL and for shows on E! Entertainment of Shola’s former colleague at the MLB. The new network included Television, Style Network, and G4. E! Entertainment worked for the a heavy news component, and There, Shola negotiated contracts television production arm of the Shola’s more senior colleagues put for talent and guests on shows like ABC network, and he let Shola him in charge of setting day-to- Keeping Up with the Kardashians know about an opening at the day protocols as well as plans for company. Shola jumped at the potential production emergencies. opportunity to handle legal affairs “This was nothing that I’d done at ABC Studios, one of the best before. I was setting up procedures that were going to stick, at least for the interim, for this network that a lot of money had gone into,”

“Having Weil on your resume is the best street cred ever. People wouldn’t ask me ‘Can you handle this amount of work? Can you juggle things?’

. . . If I worked at Weil, those “ were givens.

Rozanna Tesler Fried

weil.com/alumni Shola said. “When the launch Their lives don’t just stop and wait difficult to fill seats in movie date hit, things started rolling and for us to make a movie,” Rozanna theaters. things went well. That was a major said. “Anna Paquin was on the HBO accomplishment for me.” original series, True Blood. We What’s Next for Rozanna and literally plucked her off the set for Shola? Dealmaking Dilemmas in the a week.” Rozanna is jumping into her new Digital Age Behind the scenes, Rozanna role as vice president of business While at Fox, Rozanna tackled negotiated and inked deals with and legal affairs for Fullscreen, the legal aspects of multiple the stars’ agents and lawyers and a joint venture of AT&T and The X-Men movies, along with major handled day-to-day legal issues, Chernin Group that also serves as titles like The Tree of Life, Ice Age, including tax and subsidy issues, a management company for online We Bought a Zoo, and Rio. The as well as negotiations with Marvel talent and brands. She will be part MEDIA MAVERICKS most professionally challenging from a creative standpoint. of a team tasked with launching a new subscription video on demand film project to date, she said, In her next role, Rozanna handled was X-Men: Days of Future Past, (SVOD) platform at the multichannel both business affairs and legal network, which boasts 425 million which had on its roster dozens of affairs for Constantin on films and Hollywood’s biggest stars, including subscribers and 3.5 billion video TV shows. The position involved views each month. Meanwhile, Shola Sir Ian McKellen, Halle Berry, a wider range of responsibilities Jennifer Lawrence, Ellen Page, and says he is especially enjoying the than she had at Fox, where a slew fast-moving dealmaking that goes Hugh Jackman, just to name a few. of departments took care of each on at Fox Sports, which calls on him With so many big-name piece of the puzzle. At Constantin, to quickly spot potential issues actresses and actors – who were Rozanna worked on the distribution and to keep creative, advertising, simultaneously working on TV and financing side of the business legal, risk management, and other shows and appearing on Broadway and sorted through the labyrinth of corporate groups in the loop and on complicated intellectual property – Rozanna faced the tough task the same page. of negotiating with other studios, rights issues associated with film “I love the dealmaking aspect of this, production companies, and projects that are budgeted in the and I want to continue to grow in that Broadway companies to take the hundreds of millions of dollars. She also assisted the production capacity,” Shola said. “There’s just a stars off the set to work on the company and its financiers to lot of opportunity right now. I’m in a X-Men movie. minimize risk and maximize profit good place to keep doing what “People were just all over the place. in an age when it is increasingly I’m doing.”

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“I talked to everybody top-down at Weil. That was my

approach. I really wanted to prove to myself that I was capable of the work, but also that I was capable of“ interacting with everybody and making friends.

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weil.com/alumni been the entertainment giant’s expert in content protection The Copyright go-to expert for negotiating content technology – in fact, the expert at protection technology licenses, Fox. When Napster’s music file- Cop including the security of digital sharing came along in 2000, panic content in licensing deals. He also set in in Hollywood “because they Ronald Wheeler oversees the company’s worldwide could see what was coming – music Senior Vice President, anti-piracy and copyright litigation on the Internet today, but TV shows Content Protection activities. Not surprisingly, Ron likes and movies tomorrow.” So with Fox Entertainment Group technology and what he calls “the his technology background and march of progress,” along with the reputation, in October 2001 he was legal and business challenges and plucked out of home entertainment Since the advent of motion picture opportunities it brings. Not that he and assigned the responsibility of is a “techie” in his personal life – building its copyright protection

MEDIA MAVERICKS film, the Twentieth Century Fox Film and TV studio has produced old-school BlackBerry, no iPhone, department, which started at 4 more than 80 years of projects that no Facebook, no Twitter. But he has people and now numbers 19. collectively reinforce its standing built an enviable career through understanding technology and how The Challenges of Marching as a formidable industry player. Forward The framed pictures of projects to legally navigate the opportunities that hang on the walls of its Los and vulnerabilities it generates for the industry. The march of progress has also Angeles offices, from The Grapes brought, Ron says, “the breakdown of Wrath, Butch Cassidy and the “I started my career at Fox in the of territorial boundaries in the Sundance Kid, and All About Eve to home entertainment company – in world which, in many ways, is Moulin Rouge, Titanic, Mr. & Mrs. the era of VHS tapes – advising another great thing about modern Smith, and Avatar bear witness Fox on compliance with Robinson- life. The downside is that since to the Fox empire’s legendary Patman” antitrust law, bringing copyright is a territorial concept, filmmaking. Visitors may also in his friend and now-retired Weil global licensing needs a lot of marvel at images from How I Met partner, Peter Standish, as outside supervision. When Fox licenses Your Mother and the iconic Fox counsel for a time. After lots of Netflix.com, for example, our television series The Simpsons, transactional work, the coming of movies and TV shows are for U.S. which is the longest-running the DVD offered an unexpected delivery – they’re only supposed to American sitcom, the longest- opportunity. As a former Weil running American animated associate, Ron had represented program, and longest-running Panasonic in negotiating an end American scripted primetime to a battle over what the DVD television series. In addition format would be. Ron recalls: “I to the film and TV studio, the had serendipitously learned quite a Fox Entertainment Group (FEG) bit about it, and nobody else at Fox includes the Fox Networks Group, knew nearly as much.” Naturally, which produces and distributes company execs tasked him with domestic and international TV providing legal counsel on its new channels, including Fox News. DVD business. Given the enormous value of these The only catch was that at the assets, FEG could only entrust eleventh hour someone realized the protection of its intellectual that DVDs were “easy to copy, property to the most capable, like CDs.” With the format almost vigilant, and intellectually curious ready to launch, they would “have of legal counsel. For the past to invent a copy protection system 13-plus years, that lawyer, their in record time.” But once again, “copyright cop” so to speak, has urgency provided an opportunity. been Weil alumnus Ron Wheeler. As he worked on that vital Since leaving Weil for Hollywood project, Ron established 20 years ago, Ron has stood at the relationships across legal nexus of some of the hottest many technology trends and biggest challenges in companies and the entertainment field and has became a legal 12

We Are Weil have U.S. customers for that store.” of information from surveys. “We Most important, at least one study But consumers can go online try to find the sites themselves and shows that it has resulted in more in places like New Zealand and stop them from streaming our stuff, consumption of legitimate content. Australia or Canada pretending to but they are frequently located in “In my world,” Ron says, “it’s a be Americans, paying the U.S. rate, places where copyrights are hard to pretty big deal.” and getting access to the much enforce, places like Tonga, Bulgaria, Looking back at his time at Weil, greater content available in the U.S. or Kazakhstan.” where he started in 1989, Ron (on the order of 30,000 titles vs. The picture is not 100 percent 3,000 in Canada). That threatens recalls the great experience of bleak – in fact, in the U.S., Europe, working with Ira Millstein, Peter licensing deals for Fox content in and to some extent in Asia- other countries. Standish, Bruce Rich, and others Pacific, the company has had in what was then called the More dangerous for entertainment considerable success in fighting Trade Regulation Department. He companies are the new kinds of the theft of movies and TV shows. relished the variety of work he got piracy. Everyone knows about Occasionally the studios succeed to do, from corporate governance Grokster – a 2005 Supreme Court in obtaining criminal prosecutions to “M&A-related work, antitrust copyright case that Ron got to work of alleged major offenders. One counseling, litigation – every day it on – and it’s not that peer-to-peer of the most notorious is the rogue was different.” is not still a problem. But because Internet entrepreneur and New “it’s the only form of piracy that’s Zealand political figure known Variety and great colleagues, in the open and you can watch as Kim Dotcom, whom the U.S. of course, were not the only happening, it’s less menacing Justice Department has accused advantages of the Weil experience: than the growing number of more of stealing hundreds of millions Ron also got a steady flow of clandestine forms of piracy, like of dollars in copyrighted content useful feedback on his lawyering downloading from ‘cyberlockers’ or through his Megaupload file-sharing – standard practice at Weil but streaming sites or link sites, where website and is trying to extradite. certainly not everywhere. That it’s just you the user and some Even before Dotcom has been “made me a much better lawyer,” website somewhere in the world. tried – much less convicted – his Ron says. When he got the nod from We cannot monitor that or observe indictment has scared off a lot of Fox, he was more than ready to it happening.” Ron and his industry would-be imitators and led them to launch a great legal career counterparts can only glean bits close their associated cyberlockers. in Hollywood.

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Newer, clandestine forms of piracy, like downloading movies from ‘cyberlockers,’ are a significant concern. “In my world,” says Ron, “it’s a pretty big deal” to have the U.S. go after alleged major offenders like Megaupload’s Kim Dotcom.

Ronald Wheeler

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common stock ofDIRECTV Corporation, whichheld54%ofthe Media company splitofffromLiberty a Entertainment, with Liberty and its$28.5billioncombination Representations Notable in India launch ofacabletelevision channel cable conglomerate, regardingthe anIndian Network, Entertainment contract disputebroughtby Modi real estate toComcast stake inNBCUniversal andrelated $18.1 billionsaleofitsremaining49% deal ever –and,thereafter, GEinthe –atthetime,GE’snetworks largest cable channelsandregionalsports of NBCUniversal andComcast’s Comcast Corporation forownership $37.25 billionjointventure with General ElectricCompanyinGE’s their respective repertoires for therightstoperformmusic in is requiredtopay toASCAP andBMI substantially lowered thefeesDMX license feestructure forDMXandthat ASCAP thatresulted inanew blanket trial proceedingsagainst BMIand pending $67.1 billionsaletoAT&T 20 years, includingmost recently its significant transactions over thelast retired players ofdamagestoallactiverecovery and player relationshipsandensured injunctions thatrestructured owner- to theplayers, andalsoresulted in settled, granted freeagency status v.Robertson NBA, which,when action against teamowners, service extended totheNapster file-sharing infringement stemming fromitsloans copyright for contributory/vicarious liable (fortensofbillionsdollars) shouldbe thatBertelsmann asserting publishers andrecordlabels of litigationsbroughtby music $14 billionimpairmentcharge securities fraud class concerninga formerofficersinahigh-profile two Chairman SumnerRedstone, and ESPN ina$231millionbreachof NBC Universal, Inc.andparent DMX inapairofcopyright rate court DIRECTV ofitsmost inthemajority NBA players inanantitrust class AGBertelsmann inaseries CBS, CEO LeslieMoonves, weil.com/alumni 15 n Simon & Schuster in a series of antitrust investigations and private litigations concerning the $5 billion electronic book GENERATION industry n LIN Media LLC, a local multimedia company, in its $2.6 billion merger with Media General, Inc., an owner and operator of broadcast television stations and related websites and mobile news applications, creating, when consummated, the second- largest pure-play television broadcasting company in the U. S.

n A class of local television stations in an antitrust class action next against SESAC, a performance rights organization, relating to Here are some of the pending and SESAC’s music licensing practices recent notable representations led n The Walt Disney Company and Marvel Entertainment in a major copyright dispute with the heirs of iconic comic book artist Jack by several Weil junior partners who Kirby relating to popular comic book characters

are under the age of 45 and already n ESPN, ABC Cable Networks, and others in obtaining a complete making their mark as the go-to defense jury verdict at trial on a $130 million claim brought by Dish Network relating to content distribution counselors to the industry n Citadel Broadcasting, a radio broadcaster and the third-largest radio group in the United States, in its $2.4 billion cash-and-stock sale to Cumulus Media, the second largest radio station ownership group in the U.S. – creating the largest pure-play radio group, with over 500 stations. The deal was named a 2011 M&A Deal of the Year by The Deal.

n National Hockey League Players’ Association, National Basketball Players Association, and the National Football League Players Association with respect to the most recent lockouts in the NHL, NBA, and NFL, respectively

n CBS Corporation in its development of CBS Sports Radio, a 24- hour, seven-day-a-week lineup of national programming from CBS Radio and CBS Sports, and in its exclusive syndication and sales partnership arrangements with Cumulus Media Inc., an owner and operator of commercial radio station clusters in the U.S., to secure affiliate agreements and ad sales with radio stations nationwide for CBS Sports Radio.

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► WNBA Women Alumnae Event Tuesday, August 12 hroughout the year and around the world, the Firm hosts alumni events that Trange from the large gala to the smaller, more intimate gatherings over cocktails and appetizers. In this section, we share photos of Weil attorneys – both current and former – catching up with each other and networking. We also invite photo submissions from impromptu get-togethers that our alumni may organize on their own.

► AsianAttorneys@Weil Conference Thursday-Friday, September 18-19

Top, from left to right: In the Weil suite at MSG are Blaire Cahn, Michele Meises, Angela Ferrante (alum), Candace Arthur, and Erika del Nido. Bottom, from left to right: AsianAttorneys@Weil speakers Yvanna Custodio, Kat Park (alum), Michael Chaisanguanthum (alum), Danielle Do (alum), Michael Jo (alum), and David Singh. 17

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► Boston Office Women in Private Equity Luncheon Thursday, October 9

► Latinos@Weil Conference Thursday-Friday, November 6-7

Top, from left to right: Courtney Marcus, Ramona Nee, Shar Heslam (alum), Tara Gadgil, and Sarah Stasny. Bottom, from left to right: Latinos@Weil panelists Erick Flores, Alejandra Almonte (alum), José Ramón Gonzalez (alum), 18 Suzette Recinos (alum), and Marihug Cedeño.

We Are Weil MEDIA MAVERICKS The Miami dancer is just the Beverly was immediately thrown The “Never Idle” latest contestant in the long- into the fray, quickly coming up running show to inspire Beverly, to speed on the various lines of Entertainment the executive vice president of businesses and implementing business affairs and operations policies to help the company grow Exec at 19 Entertainment Inc., which efficiently. Years of experience as a developed both So You Think You litigator had taught Beverly how to Beverly Frank Can Dance and popular singing strategize and think ahead, to look Executive Vice President, competition series, American Idol. for solutions that not only resolve Business Affairs & Operations 19 Entertainment Inc. “Seeing the dancers and how hard the immediate emergency at hand they work,” Beverly said, “I am but also add long-term value to constantly moved by the talent the business. Beverly Frank found herself of everyone involved, from the Beverly currently works out of captivated at a dress rehearsal in dancers to the choreographers to a Sunset Boulevard office that September ahead of a 77-city tour the producers and production team. overlooks the Hollywood Hills, for So You Think You Can Dance, Being able to work on this show is where signed records and posters a televised dance competition that one of the most rewarding parts of celebrate American Idol winners Fox has just renewed for a my job.” who have now become household 12th season. Beverly got her start at that names, including Kelly Clarkson, Among the talent preparing for job when she was approached Carrie Underwood, and Phillip the national tour was Ricky Ubeda, by Simon Fuller, the creator of Phillips. She oversees a team who decided he wanted to become American Idol, the co-creator of of lawyers and business affairs a dancer after watching So You So You Think You Can Dance, and professionals who cover music, Think You Can Dance when he was legendary artist manager. touring, talent management, sponsorships, and endorsements just eight years old. Ten years later, With the success of Pop Idol Ricky not only got on the show of in the U.K., Simon launched for 19 Entertainment’s talents and his dreams, but walked away as its 19 Entertainment as his U.S. brands, television development, and season 11 winner. production, recording, touring, and outside producing partners that artist management arm. Beverly create and produce new programs. initially did outside legal work She always finds time to work for 19 Entertainment, but as the across every aspect of So You Think company grew, Simon offered You Can Dance. Beverly an opportunity to join his The 19 Entertainment team plays U.S. operations and be its first a hand in American Idol from in-house attorney. At the time, beginning to end, from seeking out 19 Entertainment was producing the best talent in the country during the #1 television show in the auditions to developing the talent country and had an exciting throughout the show to working music business attached to it. with the winner to launch his or her

“There are challenges every day. With music, TV, and

talent management, things move fast and“ can change even faster. 19

Beverly Frank

weil.com/alumni new career after the season is over. and defend depositions, and was her interest in working for While Beverly is well-aware that involved in extensive motion 19 Entertainment. she holds a dream job, her foray practice during the case, which Since that time, Beverly has into the media and entertainment also involved one of the first email successfully navigated several world came more through discovery disputes. corporate transitions at the serendipity than any long-held plan. Beverly continued as a litigator company, while enjoying the variety Early in her career, the former after moving from New York to of work on her plate that ensures associate in Weil’s Litigation California but began taking up no day is the same. department had honed her legal media and entertainment cases, “From the minute I got here, I skills working alongside partner given that that type of work started learning,” Beverly said. Jeff Klein on the Rowe v. William abounded in L.A. After several “There are challenges every Morris Endeavor Entertainment years of private practice, Beverly day. With music, TV, and talent MEDIA MAVERICKS case, where more than 30 decided she was open to trying management, things move fast and defendants were named. Beverly something new. Within a few short can change even faster.” n learned firsthand how to take weeks, Simon got in touch to gauge

Discussing career paths at an L.A. networking luncheon organized by Weil are (from left to right) Jack Whigham, Kito Huggins, 20 Ron Wheeler, Shola Ajewole, Beverly Frank, and Rozanna Tesler Fried.

We Are Weil 2015 New Partners Weil Elects 12 Partners and 15

Fabienne Beuzit Lyuba Goltser Counsel Business Finance & Public Company Restructuring Advisory Group Paris New York eil’s partnership announced that it has Ariel Kronman elected 12 new partners Patrick Bright Structured Finance & Wand 15 new counsel, effective Banking & Finance Derivatives London New York January 1, 2015. “I am pleased to introduce this Brian Maher diverse and extremely talented Andrew Chizzik Structured Finance & group of lawyers,” said Firm Private Funds Derivatives New York London Executive Partner Barry Wolf. “More than half are based outside of the United States, reflecting the Edouard de Lamy Tom Richards strength of our global operations. Tax Banking & Finance They have significant and Paris London wide-ranging experience across our Corporate, Litigation, Business Finance & Restructuring, and Tax Anish Desai Gavin Westerman departments, and will help our Patent Litigation Mergers & Acquisitions Washington, DC New York clients achieve their sophisticated goals and objectives.” The new partners and counsel Stephen Fox Caroline Zalka are based in Hong Kong, London, Private Funds Securities Litigation London New York New York, Paris, Warsaw, and Washington, DC. n

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Adé Heyliger Ewa Bober Public Company Capital Markets Advisory Group Warsaw Washington, DC Q&A Barbra Broudy David Irvine Capital Markets Private Funds and Tax New York London

Monika Kierepa Charles Cardon Technology & IP Mergers & Acquisitions Transactions Paris Warsaw

Kelly DiBlasi Business Finance & Naomi Munz Restructuring Mergers & Acquisitions New York New York

Gautier Elies Stefania Di Trolio Venezia

Mergers & Acquisitions Securities Litigation GENERAL COUNSEL Paris New York

Jared Friedmann Complex Commercial William Welty Litigation Mergers & Acquisitions New York Hong Kong

Daniel Yeh James Gee Private Equity and Private Funds Mergers & Acquisitions London Hong Kong

Thomas Goslin Environmental Transactions Washington, DC

We Are Weil Lawyers who start out at Weil interesting practice for me. It really receive a strong foundation for their draws on a lot of different aspects careers that they can build on any of my IP background. way they choose. Just ask Joseph What were your dates of Salvo. The former IP litigation tenure at Weil and your associate at Weil went on to Sony practiceQ group? Music and Arista to negotiate deals with some of music’s biggest names. I had been a summer associate He now serves as chief legal counsel at Weil and during my last for HIT Entertainment, the company yearA of law school here in New York, behind iconic children’s entertainment I had the opportunity to clerk at the brands. Here, Joseph reflects on his Firm. I was at Weil from September professional journey and shares 1989 until I left to take a position insights he’s gained along the way. over at Sony Music in 1994. I was a litigation associate working What are your day-to-day primarily on intellectual property, responsibilities, and what are and I worked with (retired partner) Q&A HIT’sQ core businesses? Bob Sugarman, who was in the litigation group, and with Bruce As the general counsel of a Rich, who is still at the Firm. Bruce A small company, you do gave me a lot of responsibility early everything. I actually hold two titles: on and was really terrific. My next I’m general counsel of HIT, which job out of Weil was because of my operates as a stand-alone division having worked with Bob on a within Mattel, and I serve as vice number of matters on behalf of president and assistant general Sony Music. Ultimately, when an counsel for the larger Mattel opportunity arose in the Sony Music organization. I manage a team of 16 law department, they invited me to people. By and large, my day come across. I spoke with Bob, and involves working with my lawyers Q&A we thought it was a great thing to and paralegals with respect to the do. I came back to Weil in 2006 for various types of licensing deals that two years, for a special project. I we do. was involved in proceedings before with HIT owns a lot of preeminent a U.K. tribunal to determine rates at children’s brands: Barney, Bob the which music publishers would be Builder, Thomas and Friends, paid for the use of their works in Angelina Ballerina, and Mike the digital exploitations. The rates that Knight. We create audiovisual have come out of that proceeding content, so I am involved in helping have, in many ways, become the de facto rates all across the world. Joseph to paper all of the transactions that go into that, whether we’re retaining How did you transition from screenwriters or animators or voice IP litigation to transactional talent; licensing it out to television work?Q networks, and for creation of DVDs and home video streaming services; I was hired on at Sony really Salvo or licensing them out for purposes A to do record deals and of accessories, toys, and other publishing deals, so it was a little General Counsel consumer products, or book bit of a departure from my prior publishing. We also do live events, practices, which were very HIT Entertainment tours, and some permanent litigation-based, but I had – even attractions. We have a Thomas Land before going to law school – I had in Japan, at the foot of Mt. Fuji, fronted a rock ‘n’ roll band for a another Thomas Land in the north number of years, so I had a good of England, and we will be opening sense of that industry. That was our first Thomas Land in the U.S., part of why I went over to work close to Cape Cod in April. It’s a very for the labels. The Sony law 23

weil.com/alumni department was and remains to other litigators on matters that What are the hot topics in this day one of the better, if not came up at Sony from time to time. Q your industry? How do you best, training grounds for young We also used Weil as part of the stay current? music lawyers. I stayed at Sony sale of HIT to Mattel. Weil for about three years before I went The video-on-demand space represented APAX and HIT. The is becoming a real to Arista Records and started doing counsel of Weil, in terms of getting A more transactional work. After my battleground because television us ready for the sale and walking broadcasters who have seen some three years at Arista, I moved back through every facet of the sales to Sony – I was invited back to head of their viewers disappear to process, was just invaluable. I had up the transactional drafting smaller devices want to make sure the privilege of working with group there. that they are in control of video-on- Michael Aiello and Jackie Cohen, demand. Similarly, our home I continue to believe that training who were absolutely phenomenal in entertainment partners, who are as a litigation associate is good helping us do that deal. Jackie was not selling as many DVDs anymore, for anybody, whether you end up incredibly patient in taking me want to make sure that they are going into transactional work, step-by-step through every aspect also controlling those same rights. Q&A litigation work, or any other area of the transaction. Those were all So, we’re caught in the middle, with because it just gives you a very terrific learning experiences, and both sides trying to get a hold of good perspective on, for example, they were very, very helpful in these rights. From our perspective, how a contract is going to be read in these are new material rights that a court. I also had the opportunity terms of bringing me along. I try to we would like to be able to license to be exposed to M&A work, first do that here with my attorneys. As I separately to make up for the with the Sony-BMG merger (while say to my team, “There are no decreasing revenues. working in-house for Sony) and stupid questions.” As a lawyer, when HIT was sold 2 1/2 years ago learning is a lifelong process, and I’m an avid reader. There are various to Mattel. I spearheaded that so it’s critical to be open to what IP blogs that I will go on. For the legal team. other people have to teach you, and last few years, I have served as the it’s also critical to be able to share President of the Copyright Society Did you ever get to work that which you have learned with of The USA, which puts on two Q closely with any celebrity the people who are coming up great programs each year, and recording artists or producers? behind because that’s how we all here in New York there are monthly

GENERAL COUNSEL lunches. There are terrific panels on Well, especially during the become better lawyers. second round at Sony when I some of the latest cases and case A How can law firm associates law that is coming out, so that’s was running the transactional add value to the transactions group, I cherry-picked the deals, so very helpful. To the Firm’s credit – Qthat they handle for you? when Bruce Springsteen’s the firm newsletters that come out renegotiation came up, I did that; One of the most important from time to time – I open those, I when Celine Dion’s came up, I did things is getting what I would read those, and those are helpful as that; when John Mayer’s came up, I referA to as commercially salient and well in terms of keeping up with the changes in the law got the opportunity to do that. I commercially grounded advice. . worked with what was the A-list There are a great many lawyers out What do you do for fun? talent at the time – the Dixie Chicks there who will basically go through as well. When I was at Arista, I a recitation of the law and conclude Q I just completed my second worked with Clive Davis, Whitney that on the one hand x and on the Houston, Kenny G, did a little work half marathon. My youngest other hand y … Well, my job is to A with P Diddy – worked with Bad Boy, daughter has picked up guitar and decide x or y so it’s helpful for me which was his label and was started playing again, and that has when somebody says, “You know, x distributed through Arista. So, a lot been fun because it’s made me of great artists, a lot of great music, would seem to be the better choice bring out my guitar and start and a lot of very fond memories of here for the following reasons” or “If playing again. We had an my time there. I were you, I might consider doing y.” all-attorney band at Weil called Having somebody help guide me in Rule 11 and the Sanctions. We Did you continue to work with making a decision is a real plus. would play all the holiday parties. It Weil in your capacity as an Working with associates who are was an exceptional group. Our real in-houseQ lawyer? able to digest it, boil it down, and superstar was Bruce Meyer, who is 24 I did. We continued to work provide a recommendation is really a litigation partner – a fantastic A with Bob and some of the a very valuable thing to me. guitarist. Those were great times. n

We Are Weil Weil and Its Alumni in the News

► Gregory Antollino (NY/Lit/’92) ► Mark Friedman (NY/Trade specializes in matrimonial and was named SuperLawyer for the Practices/’89) was promoted family law, including divorces, third time in his field of practice, to Vice President at Intel prenuptial agreements, custody plaintiff’s employment litigation. Corporation, where he is a litigation and Hague Convention member of Intel’s Law & Policy (international child abduction) ► Stacey (Davidson) Blecher (NY/ Group and responsible for litigation. Tax/’89) has recently moved into worldwide legal support of Intel the business role of Global ► Thaddeus R. Lightfoot (DC/ sales & marketing. Program Manager for Lit/’88) was just appointed to the Pre-Employment Administration Executive Committee of the at JPMorgan Chase. She resides Hennepin County Bar in Cream Ridge, New Jersey, with Association, a county bar her husband, three children, and association that includes the City two rescue dogs. of Minneapolis and has approximately 8,500 members. ► Paul Carbonelli (NY/Corp/’08) In addition, he is the Chair of the has transitioned from Blake, Minnesota Continuing Legal Cassels & Graydon LLP to be Education Board of Directors corporate counsel at Direct Cash and serves on the Board of Payments, a rapidly growing ► On August 4, 2014, Seth Directors of the Minnesota State FinTech company in Canada. Gastwirth (NY/Lit/’02) (above) joined AkzoNobel Inc. as Senior Bar Association. ► Susan Y. Chao (Dallas/Corp/’01), Legal Counsel in its Chicago ► Roy Luria (NY/Corp/’00) was Associate General Counsel of office. AkzoNobel is a leading appointed in October 2012 as the Frito-Lay North America, was a global paints and coatings General Counsel of Comverse, finalist for Best In-House company and a major producer Inc. based out of Boston. Counsel for 2014 Corporate of specialty chemicals with Counsel awards. operations in more than 80 countries and over 50,000 employees. ► In October 2014, Heather Goldstein Greenberg (NY/Trade Practices/’97) was promoted to Deputy General Counsel at The Topps Company. ► Make-A-Wish® America recently ► Gabriel Matus (NY/Corp/’98) welcomed Sharlyn Heslam (above) joined Excel Sports ► Irina Dolinskiy’s (NY/Corp/’98) (Dallas and Boston/Corp/’99) to Management as General Counsel educational children’s book, its national board of directors. in September 2014. Excel is a Parts of Speech Parade, Heslam joined Berkshire full-service sports management New York City, has been Partners, a Boston-based and marketing agency, published, and will be released investment firm, as its first representing top athletes in on January 1, 2015. General Counsel in 2006 and professional sports. ► Eugene Egdorf (Houston/Lit/’91) became a Managing Director in ► Sylvia Mayer (Houston/Lit/’93) is now Managing Attorney for The 2011. In this role, she oversees recently launched an alternative Lanier Law Firm in Houston. legal matters relating to dispute resolution practice that Berkshire’s investment activities includes Civil, Commercial, and and operations. Consumer Mediation and ► Tim James (NY/Lit/’87) is now a Arbitration, Elder and Adult Care partner at Cohen Rabin Stine Mediation, and Deal, Bankruptcy, Schumann LLP, which and Workout Mediation. 25

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► Linda Mintz (Schwartzman) (NY/ ► Deepak Reddy (NY/Corp/’00) ► For the second year in a row, Weil Corp/’83) and Sandy Hausner recently joined the New York has more U.S.-based lawyers (NY/Corp/’89), acquired a large office of the global law firm ranked by IFLR1000 than any home health care company in Dentons as a partner. Deepak is a other law firm. In all, Weil has a New Jersey this year. They are member of the firm’s Aviation total of 53 ranked individuals – both co-chairpersons of Care Practice Group and one of the with 39 “Leading Lawyers” and Finders Total Care LLC. The global leaders of its India Practice 14 “Rising Stars.” company has been in business 20 Group. Deepak also leads the ► A group of 15 Weil women years, has 4 offices and 2,000 firm’s Corporate Jet & Helicopter attorneys was recently employees, and provides home Finance Practice. recognized in Expert Guides’ 2014 care services to about 3,000 ► Akhil Sharma (London/Corp/’98) “Women in Business Law” patients in 5 counties in Northern is now a Director in the banking publication. The practice areas in New Jersey. and finance department at which these women earned Wragge Lawrence Graham & Co. “Expert” status include Capital in London. Markets (Anna M. Frankowska), Commercial Arbitration (Juliet ► Judy Siegel (NY/BFR/’91) Blanch and Karolina Horakova), recently joined Pro Bono Competition and Antitrust (Ann Partnership, a nonprofit Malester), Corporate Governance organization that provides free, (Ellen J. Odoner), Insolvency and transactional legal services to Restructuring (Lori Fife, Marcia nonprofits throughout New York, Goldstein, and Jacqueline New Jersey, and Connecticut. ► Nina Moaddel (London/Corp/’01) Marcus), Litigation (Diane P. (above) works as a curator and art ► Sherri L. Toub (NY/BFR/’03) Sullivan), Mergers and advisor. Although she is based in recently joined Bloomberg LP. As Acquisitions (Akiko Mikumo and London, her work involves a reporter for Bloomberg News, Jane Ross), Private Equity curating exhibitions internationally Sherri writes a daily bankruptcy (Marilyn French), Product and advising private clients on column. She practiced in the Liability (Kathleen O’Connor), their collections. Nina also works Business Finance & Restructuring Structured Finance and with a number of museums Department for more than seven Securitization (Jacky Kelly), and and foundations. years before spending three years Tax (Kimberly S. Blanchard). at Chicago-based investment ► Weil has been honored for having ► Robert Morris (London/Corp/’00) bank William Blair & Company as the strongest mergers and has set up a legal recruitment a Vice President in the Special acquisitions practice in California. firm, Stratalegal, in London, Situations & Restructuring group. which is rapidly becoming a The Firm was named the winner leading player in the U.K. legal ► On May 1, 2014, Jenna of The Recorder’s first-ever recruitment sector. Victoriano (NY/Trade Corporate Practice of the Year Practices/’01) was promoted to Award for M&A following an ► Meredith B. Parenti (Houston/ Managing Director at Barclays. extensive review by the Lit/’97) opened her own law firm She is the Global Head of California-based legal, business, in Houston this year. Parenti Law Anti-Bribery and Anti-Corruption, and technology publication. n PLLC handles litigation, appeals, responsible for the development and bankruptcy matters. and enhancement of the firm’s ► Faisal Ramzan (London/ policies and internal controls Corp/’00) was recently promoted designed to ensure compliance to partner at Proskauer Rose LLP. with applicable anti-bribery laws, including the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and the U.K. Bribery Act. 26

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