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Pryor Cashman provides business and legal advice to an array of clients, including major motion picture studios, mini-major studios, television companies, cable companies, Internet companies, production companies, distributors, high net-worth individuals, hedge funds, investment banks and other financial institutions, completion guarantors, executives, writers, directors, producers, and actors. Pryor Cashman’s capabilities include the following: 

• Bond issues (for example, crafting completion bonds for video games)
• Complex international financing deals
• Co-financing and co-production deals
• Creating business plans
• Distribution deals
• Errors and omissions issues
• Exploitation of entertainment properties across multiple platforms and media
• Financing on individual projects and multiple or “slate” deals
• Gap financing deals
• Investment deals with consortium funding
• Multidistributor split-rights and gap financing
• Negative pick-up deals
• Outsourced business and legal affairs
• Pre-sales and sales of distribution rights for finished films
• Print and advertising (P&A) fund deals
• Private placement of debt and equity
• Private placement memoranda
• Production legal
• Receivables-based and asset-based lines of credit and term credit facilities
• Restructuring, reorganization and insolvency
• Senior and mezzanine financing
• Talent deals (for example, actor, writer, producer, director)
• Tax subsidy/tax incentive-based deals
• Union and guild issues

Pryor Cashman’s broad experience and expertise in all media combined with our capabilities in litigation, corporate, financing and related areas enable our attorneys to grasp transactions from many perspectives. Our staffing approach – combining teams assembled from many disciplines – provides flexible assistance tailored to each client’s needs. This approach enables us to staff transactions from small to large efficiently.

Transactional Experience

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Corporate Experience

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Representative Transactions 

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Representative Clients

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