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Curtis W. Bajak
Partner

Curtis Bajak maintains a diverse entertainment finance, workout, and corporate practice with an emphasis on film and music financing acquisitions and other commercial financing transactions (including asset-based lending and secured transactions), film securitizations, acquisitions and dispositions of entertainment libraries and catalogs, intellectual property licensing, high tech, and structured financing transactions. He regularly represents financial institutions and insurers as well as borrowers in and outside of the entertainment industry and also has experience in corporate acquisition financing, debt restructuring, troubled-loan workouts; and financial institution regulation.

Representative Experience

  • Representation of sponsors and borrowers in structured studio co-financing and in slate production financing transactions.
  • Representation of an institutional lender in work out of a structured film distribution financing transaction.
  • Representation of financial institution in leveraged acquisition of $50M+ music library.
  • Representation of hedge fund in production financing for television series.
  • Representation of technology outsourcing service provider in settlement of disputes with a leading manufacturing entity.
  • Representation of financial institutions in music catalog-backed and music library-backed financing transactions.
  • Representation of one independent film company in acquisition of a second independent film company.
  • Representation of overseas film distributors with respect to licensing issues in bankruptcy.
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Publications/Speeches

  • Panelist, Regulatory Issues in Restructurings

Media Mentions


Distinctions

  • Southern California Super Lawyer, Los Angeles magazine (2004)

Practice Areas
Education
Yale University, Ph.D.
Yale Law School, J.D.
Yale University, M.A.
Yale University, B.A., summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa
Bar Admissions
California
Clerkships
Law Clerk, Honorable J. Wallace, U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit
Languages
German
Japanese
Swedish (reading only)
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