ADAM W. ROSEN, is a founding partner of the law firm of Rosen Feig Golland & Lunn LLP.  Adam has been practicing entertainment law for over fifteen years, both in-house and in private practice. His broad expertise encompasses a variety of transactional entertainment services, including: the representation of writers, directors, actors, and other above and below-the-line talent; providing development and production legal services; structuring, negotiating and implementing foreign and domestic co-productions, and film and television financing transactions; negotiating acquisitions of rights; negotiating distribution and licensing arrangements; representing and packaging of scripts and films for development and sale; and other transactional entertainment services. Adam’s experience encompasses the areas of film and television, live action and animation, and domestic and international transactions.

From 2000 to 2002, Adam served as Senior Vice President of Business Affairs and General Counsel for RKO Pictures, Inc., as well as a member of RKO’s Executive Management Committee. In this capacity, Adam handled all business and legal matters for RKO and all of its divisions, as well as managed RKO’s international sales department.  While at RKO, Adam negotiated and concluded a number of studio development deals for RKO, including deals with Dimension Films, Paramount Pictures and DreamWorks.

Prior to joining RKO, Adam was Vice President, Legal and Business Affairs for Warner Bros. International Television Production. Adam was recruited by Warner Bros. in 1996 to build and run the business and legal affairs department for the Studio’s then newly formed international television production group. While at Warner Bros., Adam structured, negotiated and implemented a variety of complex international television co-productions, producing close to 200 hours of programming in just over four years, including children’s animated TV series, comedy and drama live-action TV series, a movie-of-the-week for Fox Television Network, and a number of live-action format series. At Warner Bros., Adam specialized in structuring “finance-incentive” productions and ensuring project compliance with all foreign content, financing, legal and broadcaster requirements.

From 1991 to 1996, Adam was in private practice as an entertainment, finance and corporate/securities attorney at the national law firm of Proskauer Rose LLP, and prior to that, at the entertainment law boutique of Gipson, Hoffman & Pancione, where he conducted a diverse legal practice encompassing motion picture and television finance, production, distribution, investment and joint venture transactions.

Adam earned his law degree from UCLA School of Law and his undergraduate degree from Brandeis University, where he graduated cum laude with a double major in the fields of Anthropology and Philosophy and a minor in Classical Studies in the field of Latin.  Adam is admitted to the State Bar of California and the United States District Court for the Central District of California, and is a member of Phi Beta Kappa.

Email Adam at arosen@rfgllaw.com