Matthew C. Thompson has been named to The Hollywood Reporter’s “Hollywood’s Top Dealmakers of 2023” list. The annual feature spotlights the lawyers, bankers, reps, and execs who negotiated “some of the year’s most interesting and multi-figured pacts.”
Matt was commended for working with The Gersh Agency to sell a 45% stake in the agency to investor Crestview Partners and for the launch of Call Her Daddy host Alex Cooper’s media company, Trending, in partnership with ACE Entertainment’s Matt Kaplan. Among other things, The Hollywood Reporter also cited his work in the bidding process for two public company carveouts, as HarbourView Equity Partners pursued an acquisition of BET from Paramount, and exec Darren Throop sought to reacquire a bid for production house eOne from Hasbro.
Matt is co-leader of Sidley’s Entertainment, Sports and Media group. He represents entertainment companies and sources of capital in complex M&A and financing transactions, as well as general corporate matters. He also represents entertainment companies and other similar parties in a wide variety of industry-focused commercial transactions.