Variety Names Four Akin Gump Partners as Top Entertainment Dealmakers in 2021
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(Los Angeles) – Variety has once again selected Akin Gump’s entertainment practice for its Dealmakers Impact Report. The four firm partners featured in the report, which recognized “financiers, attorneys, executives and entrepreneurs [who] forged the major game-changing deals that changed the showbiz landscape,” are practice head Chris Spicer, along with Marissa Román Griffith, Alissa Miller and Vanessa Roman.
In its profile of the four honorees, Variety showcased the more than $1 billion in transactions they handled in the past year, such as for client MUFG Union Bank in a revolving credit facility for Neon for the films Pig and Parasite; Comerica Bank in a $172 million loan to JW4 Prods. in connection with John Wick: Chapter 4; and Hello Sunshine, an affiliate of Reese Witherspoon’s Hello Sunshine lifestyle company, in securing a new multimillion-dollar revolving loan facility.
Reflecting on the team’s impressive year, Ms. Miller said, “You have to focus on the big picture and your clients’ needs. We do a good job at that.”
Earlier this year, Variety also recognized the group in its Legal Impact Report. Learn more here.
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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