Partner Scott Alderton named to Southern California Super Lawyers 2012. Super Lawyers magazine names attorneys in each state who received the highest point totals, as chosen by their peers and through the independent research of Law & Politics. Rising Stars names the state’s top up-and-coming attorneys. Super Lawyers magazine is published in all 50 states and reaches more than 13 million readers.
Ryan Seacrest Media (RSM), an investment holding company, and Clear Channel, a leading global media company, together with Clear Channel’s majority investors Thomas H. Lee Partners (THL) and Bain Capital today announced two new investment agreements designed to drive business growth across multiple media platforms.
Funds sponsored by THL and Bain Capital have together committed up to $300 million to working with RSM to identify, acquire and develop innovative media companies, media content and other media properties that can be leveraged to support a range of media enterprises.
Under a separate agreement, Clear Channel will acquire a minority stake in Ryan Seacrest Productions (RSP), a privately-held entertainment production company. RSP produces the hit series “Keeping Up with the Kardashians,” the highest-rated show on the E! network, and the spin-offs “Kourtney and Kim Take New York,” “Khloe and Lamar,” and “Kourtney and Khloe Take Miami.” RSP also produced the Emmy Award-winning ABC reality series “Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution.” RSP is currently producing two new reality series including “Melissa and Tye: A New Reality,” for CMT and “Shahs of Sunset,” for Bravo.
Creative Artists Agency (CAA), Craig Jacobson at Hansen, Jacobson, Teller, Hoberman, Newman, Warren & Richman, L.L.P. and Greg Akselrud of Stubbs Alderton & Markiles negotiated the transactions on behalf of Ryan Seacrest and Ryan Seacrest Media.
For more information about this transaction visit:
http://www.deadline.com/2012/01/ryan-seacrest-wins-investments-from-clear-channel-and-private-funds/
To view Greg Akselrud’s bio, click here.
SAM Client Mogreet, a B2B company that focuses on delivering targeted messaging to mobile phones has launched “moShare,” a mobile sharing service that enables millions of web, mobile and app users to share rich media content directly to their friend’s mobile phones.
As Facebook walls and email inboxes become increasingly crowded, moShare enables a more personalized sharing experience allowing videos, pictures, songs and articles to be delivered directly to the text message inbox of any mobile device regardless of wireless carrier.
Mogreet hopes that we will be seeing the moShare, “share to mobile” button right next to Facebook’s “like” and Google + on millions of sites before the end of this year. Since the launch just one week ago, there has been hundreds of articles posted about the new disruptive social sharing service. Please take a peek at the attached Forbes article about moShare and check out the web site www.moshare.com to see how it works.
For more information on our mobile application practice, contact:
Ryan Azlein: phone (818) 444-4504 email: razlein@stubbsalderton.com
Greg Akselrud: phone (818) 444-4503 email: gakselrud@stubbsalderton.com
The State of California has just passed Legislation AB361 recognizing B Corporations. What is a B Corp? It’s a new type of corporation that uses the power of business to solve social and environmental problems. According to BCorporation.net, B Corps: “(1) Meet comprehensive and transparent social and environmental performance standards; (2) Meet higher legal accountability standards, and (3) Build business constituency for public policies that support sustainable business.”
An LA Times Greenspace article states that “incorporating under AB361 allows companies greater access to social impact and venture capital investments; legal protection for directors and officers as they consider non-financial social and environmental goals; and validation of their social and environmental responsibility since their annual benefit report must assess their performance against a third party standard.” To view the full article, click here.
For more information on B Corporations, contact SAM Partner, Greg Akselrud at (818) 444-4503 or gakselrud@stubbsalderton.com.
Stubbs Alderton & Markiles, LLP in partnership with J.H. Cohn, LLP will be sponsoring the 2012 Technology Executive Leaders Breakfast. Tuesday, January 17th at 7:30am at the Skirball Center. SAM Partner Louis Wharton will be presenting on the topic of “Viewing Technology Companies Through a New Lens: The 2012 Outlook.”
For more information and to register, click here.
Nexuiz, a game produced by SAM client, IllFonic, has been selected to be in Microsoft’s winter promotion called House Party. This is a large marketing campaign that kicks off for a select few games for the Xbox 360 that will be released starting in February. The ad campaign, which will run on the 360 platform as well as G4 Television and Spike, begins at CES, where IllFonic is showing the game at Microsoft’s booth.
For more information on the Xbox Live Arcade ‘House Party 2012′, click here. Steve Goldstein, chair of the Interactive Entertainment and Video Games practice group, represents Illfonic.
