Qualifications and Career Profile
Paul A. Baumgarten concentrates in entertainment law with an emphasis on corporate finance. He has represented a broad range of motion picture production and distribution companies, as well as entertainment industry lenders and individual investors in connection with loans, private debt offerings, public offerings, off-balance sheet financing and securitizations, restructuring and bankruptcies. On the classical music side, he represents classical musicians, orchestras and is a member of the Board of Directors of Firm client Columbia Artists Management Inc., the largest manager of classical performing artists.
Mr. Baumgarten has been a designated arbitrator for the American Film Marketing Association and a Trustee of the Copyright Society of the United States of America.
Mr. Baumgarten is listed in Who’s Who in America.
Associations and Committees
Mr. Baumgarten lectures and writes extensively about entertainment industry matters. He is the co-author of the book Producing, Financing and Distributing Film. Mr. Baumgarten’s article, "Copyrights as Collateral," was published in the University of Detroit’s Mercy Law Review. He also authored "Internet Distribution Under the Old Contracts," published in the New York Law Journal on July 24, 2000, and "Recouping Advances When License Ends", published in the New York Law Journal on August 28, 2000. He has co-chaired the Practising Law Institute seminars on motion picture financing and distribution.
Education
Mr. Baumgarten received his undergraduate degree (B.A., 1955) from Swarthmore College and his law degree (LL.M., 1958) from Harvard University Law School.