Silvia Vannini Email & Phone Number

Greater Los Angeles Area

Advise entertainment and media companies in a wide range of corporate transactions, including acquisitions, dispositions, joint ventures, strategic investments and financings. Examples of client representations include:• Represented Starz Entertainment in international joint venture for creation of an over-the-top entertainment platform to be launched as "Starz Play" in the Middle East, Africa, Asia and Latin America.• Represented Metro Goldwyn Mayer Inc. in acquisition of majority interest in Mark Burnett's One Three Media and LightWorkers Media, to be consolidated into new media venture United Artists Media Group• Represented Legendary Entertainment in $350 million equity investment by SoftBank Corp. and other existing investors• Represented Legendary Entertainment in acquisition of Asylum Entertainment, an Emmy Award-winning television production company• Represented British Sky Broadcasting Group, a leading satellite broadcasting and communications company headquartered in London, in its acquisition of a majority stake in ZJTV LLC, a recently formed non-scripted television production company• Represented FilmDistrict in numerous corporate transactions including its strategic transaction with Focus Features• Represented David Goldberg in the launch of Banijay Studios North America, a Los Angeles-based television production company, in partnership with Banijay Group• Represented private equity fund Clarity Partners in the sale of its portfolio company Naylor, LLC, an outsourced business and communications services company, to RLJ Equity Partners• Represented H&Q Korea, a Seoul-based private equity firm, in its acquisition of a 49% stake in the South Korean subsidiary of Monster Worldwide

Greater Los Angeles Area

Greater Los Angeles Area

• Advised private equity funds and domestic and foreign companies in complex business transactions, including joint ventures, equity investments, mergers, acquisitions, securities offerings and general corporate and business matters• Drafted and negotiated stock and asset purchase agreements, merger agreements, limited partnership and limited liability company agreements, stockholder agreements, registration rights agreements, non-disclosure agreements, employment agreements and other key transaction documents• Drafted disclosure documents in connection with mergers, exchange offers, tender offers and securities offerings, including registration statements, proxy statements and offering memoranda• Advised board of directors regarding fiduciary duties and corporate governance• Prepared filings under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, including Forms 10K, 10Q and 8K• Managed teams engaged in due diligence in connection with equity investments, securities offerings, mergers, acquisitions and joint ventures• Based in the Skadden Hong Kong office for four months to work on listing of foreign issuers on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange (September-December 2010) • Firm pro bono coordinator; represented pro bono clients in a variety of matters, including proceedings for asylum, special immigrant juvenile status, and applications for Holocaust survivor reparations; awarded Public Counsel recognition for pro bono service (2012)

Doctor Of Law (J.D.), Law

Activities and Societies: Michigan Law Review

Doctor Of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Philosophy