LA Business Journal Names Christopher Spicer a 2018 Leader in Law
(Los Angeles) – Akin Gump entertainment practice head Christopher Spicer has been named by the Los Angeles Business Journal as one of its Leaders in Law for 2018 in the category of Entertainment Firm Attorney of the Year.
The Business Journal reports that Mr. Spicer regularly leads “some of the industry’s highest-visibility deals between independent movie production companies and financial institutions. . . . amid a rapidly changing landscape for content creation/consumption and a challenging, competitive environment.”
With a practice focusing on media and entertainment finance, Mr. Spicer represents financial institutions, mezzanine investors, production companies and equity providers in motion picture, television, digital financing and co-financing as well as other corporate transactions. He also advises borrowers, distributors, content creators, high-net-worth individuals, funds and others involved in various aspects of the production, financing and distribution of film, television and digital content.
Mr. Spicer, as the Business Journal notes, has also recently completed several Chinese-related deals. These include Bona Film Group’s investment in a slate of movies for 20th Century Fox and continued investments in additional projects, the representation of East West Bank in China’s Perfect Universe film-slate financing at Universal Pictures and an $86 million credit facility with TIK Films for the co-financing of a slate of motion pictures produced by Lionsgate.
Founded in 1945, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP is a leading international law firm with more than 900 lawyers in offices throughout the United States, Europe, Asia and the Middle East.
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