Shannon C. Hensley received her law degree from Loyola Law School of Los Angeles and is licensed to practice law in California. She received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Indiana University.
Ms. Hensley's practice is comprised primarily of transactional entertainment law and corporate/business matters.
Ms. Hensley represents clients in all sectors of the entertainment industry, including writers, producers, directors, actors, and musicians. She negotiates a wide variety of entertainment-related contracts, including acting, directing and producing agreements, option-purchase agreements relating to books and screenplays, record label agreements and publishing agreements for musicians and composers, co-production and other collaboration agreements, live performance contracts, and endorsement agreements. She also forms loan-out companies on behalf of entertainment clients and advises them with respect to protection of their intellectual property and their careers generally.
She also has extensive experience representing film, television, multi-media and commercial production companies in connection with both their creative and business operations. Ms. Hensley advises such clients on matters of entity selection, financing and capitalization, intellectual property, branding and licensing, and other entertainment-related issues, as well as providing production legal services for motion pictures, television productions and multimedia projects.
On the business and corporate side, Ms. Hensley represents companies in various industries, assisting them with entity formation and capitalization, negotiation of shareholder and operating agreements, and preparation of required corporate documents, as well as negotiating and drafting employment, confidentiality, non-competition, intellectual property/product licensing and distribution agreements. Her experience in this practice area has also included negotiating asset and stock purchase agreements and conducting related due diligence.
Prior to joining AGMB, Ms. Hensley worked with entertainment attorney Mark Litwak. During her tenure at the Litwak law offices, her work was focused on independent film production, financing and distribution. She also provided significant review and editing assistance on Mr. Litwak's book entitled "Risky Business: Financing & Distributing Independent Films," and edited the second edition of his book entitled "Dealmaking in the Film & Television Industry: From Negotiations to Final Contracts."
Ms Hensley is a member of the California Bar Association and the Los Angeles County Bar Association. Her pro bono work has included conducting legal consultations for the Independent Film Project/West (the predecessor to Film Independent), and volunteering for the Los Angeles County Bar Association's Domestic Violence Project.
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