USA – CALIFORNIA Trends and Developments Contributed by: Mehdi Khodadad, Dan Clivner, Vijay Sekhon and Matthew Thompson, Sidley Austin LLP
Vijay Sekhon is a private equity partner in Sidley’s San Francisco and Century City offices and an adjunct professor at Stanford Law. His practice focuses on mergers, purchases, sales, and reorganisations
Matthew Thompson is widely regarded as a leading advisor in the entertainment industry, with a practice that involves some of the most consequential deals shaping film, television, and music today. As the
of businesses for companies and private equity and hedge funds. Vijay also focuses on public debt and equity offerings, private placements, and purchases and sales of debt and equity, and general corporate and securities law, including advising companies and private equity and hedge funds on their disclosure obligations under the federal securities laws. Vijay is recognised in Chambers USA for Private Equity: Buyouts in California (2020–25).
co-founder and co-leader of Sidley’s entertainment, sports, and media group, and practising for over for 30 years, he represents major studios, major music companies, production and distribution companies, and sources of capital in complex M&A, joint ventures, and financing transactions that often define how content is created, financed, and distributed globally. Matt serves as a member and is co-chair emeritus of the UCLA Entertainment Symposium Advisory Committee; is a member of the Ziffren Institute for Media, Entertainment, Technology and Sports Law Advisory Board; and is a member of the USC-BHBA Entertainment Institute Advisory Board. Matt is a Band 1 ranked Chambers USA (California Media & Entertainment: Transactional) lawyer (2023-2025).
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