Four O’Melveny Lawyers Named to Variety’s 2024 Dealmakers Impact Report
December 19, 2024
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
LOS ANGELES—December 19, 2024—O’Melveny partners Amy Siegel, Matt Syrkin, Silvia Vannini, and Lindsay Conner have been named to Variety’s 2024 “Dealmakers Impact Report.” The annual special report honors the “top financiers, attorneys, executives, entrepreneurs, and more who forged major game-changing deals that changed the showbiz landscape.”
Siegel, who serves as co-head of O’Melveny's Entertainment, Sports, and Media Industry Group, represents key stakeholders across the entertainment, sports, and media industry. Her practice primarily focuses on complex commercial licensing arrangements, with expertise in the use of intellectual property rights in connection with traditional and digital means of content exploitation, theme parks and other location-based entertainment venues, sports, and other live events, as well as marketing campaigns and unique branding initiatives.
Syrkin, who serves as co-chair of O’Melveny’s MediaTech Group, specializes in delivering business and strategic legal counsel across a wide variety of commercial and corporate transactions. He is known for his pioneering work in structuring deals that are at the cutting-edge of technology, advertising, media, entertainment, sports, retail products, and financial services.
Vannini advises public and private companies on mergers and acquisitions, securities, and general corporate matters, including corporate governance, both in and out of the entertainment industry. She regularly represents private equity funds, domestic and foreign companies, motion picture studios, television networks, as well as entrepreneurial clients on a wide range of corporate transactions, including company formation and structuring, acquisitions, partnerships, joint ventures, strategic alliances, financings, and dispositions.
Conner is a leading corporate entertainment lawyer, with a focus on film, television, sports, and digital content. He has served as chief outside entertainment counsel for major film studios and television networks, global telecommunications companies, film and television production and distribution companies, rights owners and content owners, and digital media companies, as well as for banks, financial institutions, private equity funds, and high-net-worth investors.
O’Melveny has been synonymous with entertainment law since Hollywood’s Golden Age of the 1930s. The firm has repeatedly helped major players in film, television, digital media, production and distribution, gaming, music, and finance forge groundbreaking deals and resolve high-profile disputes. As shifting financial models and technological advances transform today’s entertainment and media business, O’Melveny remains a firm of choice for industry leaders.
Variety’s full report can be viewed here.
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