By Jordan Yospe (Guest Blogger, Eisner Jaffe) I regularly speak with film and TV producers, managers, agents and other entertainment lawyers seeking to clarify some widely misunderstood concepts in the branded entertainment industry. I’d like to share some of what I’ve explained to them in the hopes of clearing up the most prevalent misconceptions: Product Placement [...]

I recently attended the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) for the first time. The festival attracts producers, distributors, buyers and sellers from around the world every September. This year’s event was attended by 473,000 film goers, 5,400 industry professionals and 1,200 journalists. TIFF is considered to be one of the top festivals and markets for indep [...]

By: Ritchie Geisel (Guest blogger, Bienvenidos Children’s Center) Southern California nonprofit social service agencies have faced many challenges in recent years, beginning with funding cuts resulting from the Great Recession and California’s budget crisis — many of which have yet to be restored. In addition, an increasingly onerous regulatory environment, with seemi [...]

By Candace Crawford (CEO, Maverick Brands, maker of Coco Libre Coconut Water) A version of this article was delivered as the keynote address at the 2015 GHJ Food and Beverage Forum held Sept. 29, 2015 at the Grammy Museum in downtown Los Angeles. GHJ’ whitepaper Women in the Food and Beverage Industry should be everyone’s business. The stakes couldn’t be higher; [...]

By Mauricio Vedovato and João Paulo de Seixas Maia Krepel (guest bloggers from Lilla, Huck, Otranto, Camargo Advogados) Non-Brazilian legal entities might be entitled to use up to 70 percent of the Withholding Income Tax (WHT) due in Brazil to develop and/or co-produce Brazilian independent feature films, short films, documentaries, TV movies and TV series. Qualifying [...]

GHJ Women in Food and Beverage Forum was featured in the “L.A. Business Seen” section of the Los Angeles Business Journal highlighting how women are driving the food and beverage industry evolution. Leading this year’s discussion and seen in the photo (from left to right) are Leon Janks, Managing Partner at GHJ; Ramona Cappello, Founder of Sun Harvest Salt L [...]

With long-term sustainability in mind, Northern California Grantmakers, San Diego Grantmakers and Southern California Grantmakers recently announced the launch of a new joint initiative – The Real Cost Project – to increase the impact of philanthropy across California. “Real cost” is all the necessary investments for a nonprofit organization to deliver on a mission [...]

In a three-part series by GHJ Partner Don Snyder, the industry publication Progressive Grocer highlighted GHJ 2015 whitepaper, Women in the Food and Beverage Industry: A GHJ Report, which examines the results of the Firm’s annual survey of west coast food and beverage executives. The first article in the series, “Women as Leaders in the Food and Beverage Indu [...]

Senior Manager Peter Klass of GHJ Entertainment and Media Practice was interviewed by Business Insights on the segment “New Media Industry Trends: Consolidating to Meeting Customer Demands,” which aired Thursday, Nov. 12, 2015. The interview was conducted to discuss the Firm’s 2015 Entertainment and Media Whitepaper: New Media Industry Trends: Consolidating [...]

GHJ hosted its 3rd Annual Entertainment and Media Forum, “The Shake Up of New Media: A Seismic Shift in Content Consumption,” on Thursday, Nov. 12, 2015, at Tiato in Santa Monica. The Forum focused on the future of multi-channel networks, content production and advertising. Event discussions centered around how online content is creating new streams of re [...]