Nicole brings her native New Yorker’s touch to Ramo Law PC’s bicoastal representation of indie productions, writers, producers, and directors by leading the firm’s New York office. She represents numerous clients in projects with Netflix and HBO such as Imagine Documentaries and Push It Productions.

As production counsel, Nicole Compas leverages her dealmaker skills for clients working on multiple platforms on the East and West coasts. Her credits over the past decade span more than 100 independent films, TV series and specials, new media, documentaries and music, including “High Maintenance,” “Wild, Wild Country,” “The Rental,” “All Day and a Night,” “Ben Is Back,” “Wig,” “Wanda Sykes: Not Normal,” “Tiffany Haddish presents They Ready” and “Beasts of the Southern Wild,” the winner of a Sundance Film Festival Grand Jury Prize.

Nicole began and grew her entertainment law career at Gray Krauss Sandler Des Rochers, LLP in New York City, where she was a partner. She advises clients on all aspects of development, financing, production and distribution.

Capabilities

• Development deal negotiations
• Distribution agreements
• Film and TV production financing
• Production legal for producers, productions and other clients

Select Clients

• Push It Productions (“Wanda Sykes: Not Normal,” “Tiffany Haddish Presents: They Ready,” “Tiffany Haddish Presents: Black Mitzvah”)
• Imagine Documentaries (“Lucy & Desi,” “Rebuilding Paradise,” “D. Wade: Life Unexpected,” Disney+ docuseries “On Pointe”)
• Laugh Out Loud Productions (“Die Hart,” “Lil Kev”)
• Matador Content (“Billie Eillish: The World’s a Little Blurry,” “Wig”)
• The Jim Henson Company (“Harriet the Spy,” “Slumberkins”)
• Hello Sunshine (“Something from Tiffany’s”)
• Yale Productions (“As They Made Us,” “Panama,” “The Survivalist”)

Select Projects and Deals

Features

• 2023 Tribeca premieres “BS High,” “Bucky F*cking Dent,” “Carlos, “Diarra from Detroit,” and “Gloria Gaynor: I Will Survive”
• 2022 TIFF selections “Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe” and “Louis Armstrong’s Black & Blues”
• 2022 Tribeca selections “Alone Together,” “Leave No Trace,” and “Space Oddity”
• 2022 SXSW selection “We Feed People”
• 2022 Sundance Grand Jury winner “Nanny” and selections “Resurrection” and “Downfall: The Case Against Boeing”
• “Panama” starring Mel Gibson, 2022
• 2021 TIFF Special Tribute winner “Dionne Warwick: Don’t Make Me Over” and selection “Montana Story”
• 2021 Tribeca “Paper & Glue”
• 2021 Cannes selection, the anthology “The Year of the Everlasting Storm”
• 2021 SXSW “The Spine of Night”
• 2021 Sundance selections “On the Count of Three” and “Superior”
• “Chick Fight,” 2020
• Derek DelGaudio’s “In and Of Itself,” 2020
• “The Rental,” 2020
• “Gossamer Folds,” 2020
• “All Day and A Night,” 2020
• “Wig,” 2019
• “Light of My Life,” 2019
• “Alex Strangelove,” 2019
• “Ben Is Back,” 2018
• “Art of Style,” 2018
• “Wyatt Cenac’s Problem Areas,” 2018
• “Beasts of the Southern Wild,” 2012
• “Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel,” 2011
• “Machete,” 2010

TV

• AppleTV series “Harriet the Spy,” 2021-present
• “Hart to Heart,” 2021-present
• HBO’s “High Maintenance,” 2016-2020
• “Disney Family Sundays,” 2019-2020
• “Wild, Wild Country,” 2018

Standup Specials

• "Ms. Pat: Y’all Wanna Hear Something Crazy?” 2022
• “Tiffany Haddish Presents: They Ready,” a 2020 Emmy nominee
• “Tiffany Haddish: Black Mitzvah,“ a 2020 Emmy nominee
• “Fortune Feimster: Sweet and Salty,” 2020
• “Kevin Hart: Zero F**ks Given,” 2020
• “Wanda Sykes: Not Normal,” a 2019 Emmy nominee
• “Lil Rel Howery Live in Crenshaw,” 2019
• “Dan Soder: Son of a Gary,” 2019

Awards/Recognitions

• NY Women’s Impact Report, Variety, 2023
• Variety’s 2022 Legal Impact Report

Speaking Engagements

• Guest speaker for an entertainment law class at Touro College, 2023
• Guest advisor at the 2023 Sundance Producers Intensive

Affiliations

• New York Women in Film & Television (NYWIFT), Member
• PEFA, Member
• Sundance Catalyst, 2021 Spring Slate Consulting Lawyer

Bar Admissions

• New York State Bar

Education

• J.D., Touro College Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center, cum laude
• Touro Law Review
• Clinical intern for Honorable Peter Skelos of the Appellate Division of New York, Second Judicial Department
• B.A., New York University