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Legal Representation
David Tenzer
1801 Century Park East, 23rd Floor |
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David Tenzer is an entertainment lawyer, business consultant and content producer, with extensive experience in many sectors of the media industry. For more than 20 years, Mr. Tenzer worked at Creative Artists Agency (CAA) as an executive in Motion Picture Business Affairs before moving on to head Television Business Affairs. He then became a television packaging agent and co-founded and operated the agency’s Alternative Programming Department, and later its Lifestyles department. While with CAA, he also worked with the agency’s new media, film financing and marketing departments, handling clients such as eBay, Delta Airlines and Procter & Gamble. As a television packaging agent, Mr. Tenzer was responsible for selling more than 40 produced series, movies and specials, with budgets in excess of $800 million. As a business affairs executive, he negotiated virtually every type of television contract, including license agreements on behalf of content providers, distribution and co-financing arrangements, overall deals with studios, and agreements with above-the-line talent. He also represented many talented artists, including actors, directors, writers, producers, journalists, animators and on-camera broadcast personalities. Prior to joining CAA, Mr. Tenzer was an attorney with IBM Europe in Paris and Columbia Pictures in Los Angeles. He also worked in private practice with the law firm Rosen, Wachtell & Gilbert, where he specialized in commercial transactions and business litigation. Mr. Tenzer currently is on the board of directors of the International Documentary Association and the Banff World Television Festival, and has previously served on the boards of NATPE and the Hollywood Radio and Television Society. He traveled to Beijing and Shanghai with Los Angeles Mayor Richard Riordan as an entertainment delegate on the city’s trade mission to Asia. He is an experienced public speaker, and has served on numerous panels covering such topics as media, entertainment, advertising, branding and technology. He was named one of “Twelve to Watch” by Electronic Media in one of its annual cover stories. Education Bar
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International Documentary Association (member, Board of Directors) Banff Television Foundation (member, Board of Governors) Licensed Broker, California Department of Real Estate (since 1984)
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