Elsa, Erika, and Michelle in Variety’s Legal Impact Report 2023

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Variety’s Legal Impact Report 2023: Meet Hollywood’s Top Entertainment Dealmakers and Litigators:

Ramo founded the firm as a solo practitioner in 2005 and has expanded it to 25 attorneys, 14 of whom are women, including four of its six partners. Ramo handles business affairs for prolific, high-profile content producers, including Imagine Entertainment (podcast slate deal with iHeart Media), Hello Sunshine (Amazon feature “Something From Tiffany’s,” directed by Daryl Wein and starring Zoey Deutsch), Kevin Hart’s Laugh Out Loud and HartBeat Prods. (SiriusXM multiplatform deal; Apple TV+ doc “Number One on the Call Sheet”) and Yale Entertainment. Chang works the unscripted space, advising such production companies as Boardwalk Pictures (“Chef ’s Table,” “We Need to Talk About Cosby”), Campfire Studios (“WeWork,” “Rudy! A Documusical”) and Scout Prods. (“Queer Eye”). Canchola specializes in TV, serving as outside production counsel for Skydance Television (“Reacher,” “Foundation”), 20th Television, Hulu’s “Only Murders in the Building,” as well as such features as “A Man Called Otto,” starring Tom Hanks, “Sanctuary,” starring Christopher Abbott and Margaret Qualley, and Netflix’s upcoming “FUBAR,” starring Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Slowdown for streamers and podcasts: “People are figuring out where the dust is going to settle, where the new or merged buyers are going to come from and what they’re going to be interested in buying,” says Ramo.

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