Passe entertainment attorney Stephen Saltzman is departing Paul Hastings LLP to ticket up for the London build of job of European laws firm Fieldfisher.
A conventional of The Hollywood Reporter‘s annual Energy Lawyers: Top 100 Attorneys listing, Saltzman is believed to the exchange as a revered entertainment attorney specializing in complex world distribution, co-manufacturing and co-financing transactions, as neatly other unsuitable-border dealmaking intelligent instruct material and media brands.
He has been primarily primarily primarily based in London since 2019, when he moved from Paul Hastings’ Los Angeles offices to develop the firm’s U.Okay. and continental European enterprise, following a prior length at Loeb & Loeb. He formally begins at Fieldfisher on Monday, Oct. 4 as a accomplice in the firm’s media declare.
“Adding Steve to our media crew is a well-known boost to our growth plans,” acknowledged Tim Johnson, head of Fieldfisher’s media neighborhood, noting that Saltzman’s cosmopolitan background and unsuitable border abilities had been a natural fit for Fieldfisher’s world level of curiosity (the firm has 25 offices across 11 nations, most in Europe and Asia). “This would possibly perchance perchance toughen our providing to purchasers making an attempt to secure abilities across continents,” Johnson added.
“I gain known Tim for a actually lengthy time, working on initiatives together from both facet of the Atlantic,” added Saltzman. “I’m wrathful to be becoming a member of his crew at a time after I mediate there are well-known alternatives in the U.Okay., particularly in a put up-Brexit world the build the U.Okay. is now one in all basically the most trace-efficient world locations to shoot trim-scale feature motion photos and streaming sequence.”
For the length of a tricky length for dealmaking across hemispheres, Saltzman has persisted to abet high-profile world talent and financiers in closing great-ticket enterprise in Hollywood, such as main Chinese language studio Huayi Brothers Media, which co-bankrolled the perfect seemingly indie film to total manufacturing in 2020, Roland Emmerich’s $140 million Moonfall. He moreover right this moment advised esports crew TSM (Group SoloMid) in a single in all the perfect seemingly sponsorship gives in the exchange with the crypto forex exchange, FTX. Diversified critical offshore purchasers gain integrated Germany’s Constantin Movies and South Korean entertainment massive CJ Entertainment; nonetheless his consumer contaminated contains entities across the media spectrum — studios, theme park operators, broadcasters, digital instruct material companies, banks, film funds, directors, talent and authors.
A fluent German speaker, Saltzman moreover is anticipated to abet grow Fieldfisher’s Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Hamburg and Munich offices. “I’m contented by Steve’s arrival,” acknowledged Philipp Plog, managing director of the firm’s German operations. “His records and abilities of the German market is completely aligned to our map of servicing our rising portfolio of digital and media companies in Germany and across Europe.”
