Tinseltown's Adviser
One of Hollywood's most powerful lawyers talks about life as a talent agency GC.
April 30, 2007 at 08:00 PM
16 minute read
The original version of this story was published on Law.com
Most people are lucky to see one or two movie stars during their lifetimes. Richard Levy sees them all day long. And these aren't washed up B-movie stars, either. They are the Hollywood elite–Denzel Washington, Jodie Foster, Halle Berry, Steve Martin, Woody Allen and Roman Polanski, to name just a few.
Levy, though, is not a celebrity stalker–he's the general counsel of International Creative Management Inc. (ICM), one of the world's largest and most prestigious talent agencies. The firm represents everyone from movie and TV stars (including the ones listed above) to writers and musicians.
It's Levy's job to oversee this entertainment empire from a legal standpoint, which entails providing advice to the talent agents, working on acquisitions, managing the firm's intangible assets and handling any litigation. He also is responsible for overseeing the agency's business-development strategy, which gave him the opportunity to spearhead a major refinancing of the business in 2005. He also managed ICM's 2006 acquisition of The Broder Webb Chervin Silbermann Agency, a literary agency that represents creators and producers of primetime shows such as “Grey's Anatomy” and “Law and Order: SVU.”
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