{"id":949,"date":"2017-10-18T19:24:55","date_gmt":"2017-10-18T19:24:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ramolawpc.com\/?p=949"},"modified":"2017-10-20T19:26:44","modified_gmt":"2017-10-20T19:26:44","slug":"elsa-ramo-featured-as-varietys-hollywood-new-leaders-in-legal-and-finance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ramolawpc.com\/new\/elsa-ramo-featured-as-varietys-hollywood-new-leaders-in-legal-and-finance\/","title":{"rendered":"Elsa Ramo featured as Variety’s Hollywood New Leaders in Legal and Finance"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"VarietyLogo1\"<\/a>Each year Variety\u2019s New Leaders feature profiles the most prominent up-and-comers in the entertainment business. To determine this year\u2019s worthies, Variety looked for go-getters across disciplines, from television, digital, music and film, to law and finance, as well as content creators. They were proposed by their bosses and peers who have worked with them and seen their rise. All are age 40 or under, and Variety has measured them by the progress of their career trajectories: do they take calculated risks? How fast have they risen in their companies? Are they innovative and employ solutions to problems that are creative? While it\u2019s hard to pinpoint the \u201cit\u201d factor, these folks embody that intangible. The people on the list have helped build the brilliant careers of their clients, shepherded hit television shows and successful movies, created small-screen series, films and animated shows, launched digital platforms, fostered hit music, counseled top dealmakers and financed them, and are some of the leading lights in the wildly expanding digital delivery and content world. As part of the salute to the qualities that keep the town humming, NBC Entertainment chairman Robert Greenblatt is also being honored with Variety\u2019s Creative Leadership Award. The New Leaders, Variety\u2019s 10 Assistants to Watch as well as Greenblatt will be recognized Oct. 18, at the Jeremy Hotel rooftop in West Hollywood.<\/p>\n

Gabriel Brakin<\/p>\n

General counsel & exec VP, business affairs, Participant Media; 37
\nBrakin oversees all film financing and investments, plays a key role in shaping and implementing strategic business initiatives, and manages the business and legal affairs team conducting negotiations for all film, television and digital content, marketing and social impact as well as cross-platform creative and distribution activities. He also oversees intellectual property, corporate matters and compliance issues. Brakin has handled more than 60 of Participant\u2019s films, including upcoming releases \u201cBreathe\u201d and \u201cWonder,\u201d and the 2016 Oscar best picture winner \u201cSpotlight.\u201d He is overseeing deals for Participant\u2019s 2018 inaugural slate of TV projects. \u201cThere are many ways to get ahead in business and everyone will choose their own path, but it\u2019s always easier to be nice.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jordan Bromley
\nPartner, music practice, Manatt, Phelps & Phillips; 38
\nWorking with a stable of clients that includes the Eagles, Major Lazer, Cold War Kids and the estates of John Lee Hooker and Dan Fogelberg, Bromley has negotiated multimillion-dollar label, publishing and touring deals, but what really sets him apart is his moneymaking know-how in the streaming music space. \u201cStreaming is now a market leader in music consumption and will only continue to grow, and actually completely revitalize our business and maybe make it bigger than it ever was,\u201d says Bromley, who plans to release an updated version of his \u201cU.S. Streaming Royalties Explained\u201d infographic early next year.<\/p>\n

Grant Gittlin
\nChief execution officer, MediaLink; 32
\nGittlin\u2019s role at consulting firm MediaLink is described as \u201cintentionally undefined,\u201d but his accomplishments are not. He\u2019s led due diligence on deals for Sizmek and Yahoo, driven the Amplify\u2019s acquisition by brand tech company You & Mr. Jones, and partnered with Giphy to help build its content library into a powerful visual search engine, valued at $600 million. \u201cIt\u2019s not the [company] logos that matter, it\u2019s what are people trying to accomplish, and then how you set up strategy, drive impact and bring them together so there\u2019s a deal to be done and a business change to be made,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

Julie Murray
\nAssociate, entertainment group, Frankfurt Kurnit Klein & Selz; 39
\nAt her firm, Murray is invaluable to clients including Morgan Spurlock\u2019s Warrior Poets, for which she negotiated and finalized a production services agreement for a TNT documentary series focusing on women\u2019s issues (currently entitled \u201cWho Run the World?\u201d) that is being co-produced by Warrior Poets, Sarah Jessica Parker\u2019s Pretty Matches and Refinery29. She also repped award-winning production company Zero Point Zero on series docs, including \u201cAnthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown,\u201d \u201cThe Hunt with John Walsh\u201d and \u201cMind of a Chef,\u201d guiding the production teams on complex legal issues, especially on their international shoots.<\/p>\n

Elsa Ramo
\nManaging Partner, Ramo Law PC; 38
\nReps producers, financiers and production entities in film, television, VR and digital content across all platforms, including Informant Media, Scott Mednick, Anne Clements, Electric City Films, Skydance, Good Deed Entertainment, The Solution, Bond It, Sundial Pictures, Boardwalk Pictures, Rumble Films and Unified Pictures. Television and film credits include upcoming Mel Gibson action thriller \u201cDragged Across Concrete,\u201d Netflix\u2019s Emmy nominated docu-series \u201cChef\u2019s Table\u201d and Sony Classics drama \u201cCall Me by Your Name,\u201d starring Armie Hammer. \u201cOur team takes a full soup-to-nuts approach. Diving deep with our clients on every contract is integral. We sweat the small stuff so they can focus on making and monetizing great content.\u201d<\/p>\n

Benyamin Ross
\nPartner, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher; 38
\nRoss\u2019 love of waterfall charts, spreadsheets and other data-rich docs has made him a uniquely effective dealmaker for clients such as Technicolor, Universal Pictures, CBS, Azoff MSG Entertainment and The Chernin Group. In recent months, he\u2019s also made big plays in the gaming world, handling the sale of Riot Games (developer of \u201cLeague of Legends\u201d) to Tencent and THQ\u2019s assets to Sega, Ubisoft and Take-Two Interactive. With his dual law and data savvy, he can \u201ctranslate the legal into the spreadsheet, see where the gaps are and speak the language of the business development team,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

Cassandra Seto
\nPartner, O\u2019Melveny; 37
\nEarly in her career at O\u2019Melveny, Seto discovered she had an aptitude and a passion for litigating copyright and trademark issues while helping Disney defend its rights to Winnie the Pooh. She\u2019s still handling Pooh for the Mouse House, along with a host of other matters, including a profit participation dispute involving its series \u201cHome Improvement\u201d and copyright infringement claims regarding its film \u201cZootopia,\u201d as well as complex cases for Warner Bros. (\u201cSuperman\u201d rights) and SiriusXM (royalty payments for pre-1972 recordings). \u201cI always have new things to learn and new problems to solve,\u201d she says. \u201cSo I feel really lucky that I stumbled into this space.\u201d<\/p>\n

Darian Singer
\nExecutive director, entertainment industries group, corporate client banking, J.P. Morgan; 31
\nSinger handles structuring, negotiating and arranging capital for many of the largest players in the film, television, music, digital and interactive content arenas, including Activision, DreamWorks Animation, DreamWorks Studios, Annapurna, EuropaCorp, OddLot Entertainment, Skydance Prods., STX Entertainment, Studio 8 and Village Roadshow. He\u2019s a key deal team member on many high-profile industry transactions, including structuring and arranging the inaugural syndicated financings for Annapurna, STX Entertainment and Studio 8. \u201cMy grandfather always told me that success depends on hard work: \u2018When you think you\u2019re working hard, work harder. You can sleep when you\u2019re dead.\u2019 \u201d<\/p>\n

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Each year Variety\u2019s New Leaders feature profiles the most prominent up-and-comers in the entertainment business. To determine this year\u2019s worthies, Variety looked for go-getters across disciplines, from television, digital, music and film, to law and finance, as well as content creators. They were proposed by their bosses and peers who have worked with them and
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