Loeb & Loeb Expands its Premier Corporate Media & Entertainment Practice

LOS ANGELES, CA – Loeb & Loeb LLP announced today that Channing D. Johnson has joined the firm’s Los Angeles office as a partner in the Corporate Department and in the firm’s Corporate Media & Entertainment Practice Group.

The firm’s Corporate Media and Entertainment Group is one of the largest and most diverse teams assembled to meet clients’ needs in today’s global economy where the nature of financial opportunities in the entertainment industry is becoming increasingly more complex.

“With a long track record of adapting to the ever-changing state of the media and entertainment industries, Channing’s experience is the perfect complement for our group,” said Mickey Mayerson, Managing Partner of Loeb & Loeb’s Los Angeles office and Co-Chair of the Corporate Media and Entertainment Group.

Johnson’s practice includes regular representation of public and private companies in a variety of entertainment sectors including music; film and television production and distribution and animation; as well as in other sectors such as manufacturing; retail (clothing, food and beverage); Internet commerce; and investment banking.

“Channing has a proven ability to identify financial and business opportunities in the entertainment, media and corporate world generally, and then effectively counsel his clients through every step of business development and legal negotiations,” said Loeb & Loeb Co-Chair John Frankenheimer. “Our clients and colleagues will benefit greatly from his expertise and he will be a great addition to our Corporate Media and Entertainment Group.”

Johnson, formerly a co-founding partner of the Los Angeles office of Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP, regularly counsels clients with respect to the issuance of securities, mergers and acquisitions, joint venture and financing agreements, distribution agreements, affiliate carriage agreements, publishing and co-publishing agreements, production deals, tour agreements and artist recording contracts.

Loeb & Loeb Co-Chair Michael Beck added, “Channing is a highly qualified attorney in transactional entertainment law, a platform of our firm. He is a natural fit and we look forward to working with him.”

Johnson received his B.A. with honors from Stanford University and his J.D. from Harvard Law School.

Loeb & Loeb LLP is a multi-service national law firm with more than 300 attorneys focusing on select practice areas, rather than endeavoring to be all things to all clients. Celebrating its 100th anniversary in 2009, the firm is recognized as a leading law firm in the areas of advanced media, finance, bankruptcy, restructuring and creditors' rights, entertainment, litigation, intellectual property, real estate, mergers and acquisitions, technology, advertising and promotions and tax and wealth services. Loeb & Loeb has four domestic offices in Los Angeles, New York, Chicago and Nashville, and the firm has applied to open a representative office in Beijing to serve a rapidly growing number of Asian clients.