Media and Entertainment

• Advised on several of the highest grossing concert tours of all time regarding structure and U.S. and global tax implications, and negotiated and drafted complex operative documents
• Advised the producer of a highly successful film series in connection with the formation of entities for investment in films and the tax implications for the entities and their U.S. and non-U.S. investors of debt and equity issuances
• Advised an entertainment company and its stakeholders regarding tax issues peculiar to their cross-border activities including U.S. federal, state and local taxation, non-U.S. withholding tax and related tax credit issues and coordination of U.S. and non-U.S. tax advice
• Advised affiliated companies relating to licensing and cross-licensing activities
• Advised in relation to the tax consequences to the recipients of the issuance of partnership interests and warrants to acquire interests in media companies
• Advised regarding the formation of partnerships involved in highly successful theatrical productions
• Advised in relation to a multi-year concert residency arrangement regarding structure and U.S. tax implications, and negotiated complex operative documents
• Advised U.S. and non-U.S. race car drivers regarding the tax consequences of their professional activities
• Advised musical artists regarding the tax implications of a cosmetics endorsement and reviewed and assisted in the negotiation of the implementing contracts
• Advised entertainers regarding the tax implications of use of their names and likeness for products marketed throughout the world and reviewed and assisted in the negotiation of related contracts
• Advised nonresident authors regarding the U.S. tax implications of and planning in connection with their publishing contracts, compensation and royalties
• Advised nonresident musical artists regarding the U.S. tax implications and planning for their recording, songwriting and sponsorship/endorsement activities