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Sean Monroe advises entertainment and media companies, motion picture and television studios, content creators, ad-tech businesses, entertainment finance companies, as well as producers, financiers and distributors of digital content. He also counsels private equity, venture capital, and hedge funds on mergers and acquisitions, investments, joint ventures, private equity transactions, and other corporate finance matters. In addition, Sean works with global financial services providers, real estate development and acquisition companies, family offices, and investment advisors on a range of business transactions. His practice encompasses fund formation and investments, portfolio company acquisitions and divestitures, restructurings, venture capital transactions, and executive employment and compensation structures. Sean has also advised owners and investors in M&A and investment transactions involving professional sports franchises and Esports leagues.
Sean guides entertainment and media clients through a wide range of industry transactions, including motion picture financings, television business acquisitions and investments, digital and new media venture formations, and matters involving investment, disposition, and licensing. He handles complex domestic and cross-border M&A transactions across various sectors and advises on joint ventures and strategic partnerships. Sean also counsels clients on federal and state securities laws, corporate governance matters, and related issues involving tax, intellectual property, employee benefits, ERISA, environmental, and bankruptcy and insolvency.
As a component of his broader transactional practice, Sean represents financial advisors providing third-party fairness and solvency opinions in both public and private transactions. He structures and negotiates early-stage formation, capital-raising, and investment transactions for startups and emerging companies and advises strategic investors on corporate venture capital investments.
Concentrations
- Private equity and venture capital
- General corporate and transactional matters
- Domestic and cross-border mergers and acquisitions
Kluczowe Praktyki
Doświadczenie
- Advised Paramount Global, Warner Bros. Discovery, and The CW Network in a definitive agreement for Nexstar Media Group to acquire a 75% ownership interest in The CW television network.°
- Represented AT&T Inc. and WarnerMedia in selling the TMZ television production to Fox Corp.°
- Represented The Friedkin Group in its controlling stake acquisition of the professional Italian football club AS Roma.°
- Represented The Friedkin Group in its acquisition of the French professional football club AS Cannes.°
- Advised 30WEST, a leading-edge investment and advisory company focused on film, media, and other areas of popular culture, in its acquisition of majority ownership in NEON, the leading theatrical marketing and distribution company in the independent film space and Altitude Film Entertainment, a vertically integrated film company encompassing production, finance, international sales and UK distribution.°
- Led the M&A team representing Chenghe Acquisition II Co., a special purpose acquisition company, in the negotiation and execution of a business combination agreement with Polibeli Group Ltd., a B2B e-commerce platform headquartered in Indonesia.°
- Advised CODE Advisors in the sale of the boutique investment bank specializing in tech and media capital raising and M&A to the Raine Group.°
- Guided Cresco Labs, a vertically integrated multistate operator, in its acquisition of Laurel Harvest Labs, LLC.°
- Counseled the corporate venture capital division of a leading telecommunications company on numerous corporate venture capital investments supporting and funding tech startups with a particular focus on artificial intelligence (AI) technologies.°
- Represented PartnersAdmin LLC in its sale to TMF Group, a provider of global administrative services, including fund accounting and administration.°
- Advised Endeavor in its acquisition of branding and marketing firm 160over90.°
- Represented Alibaba Pictures Group Ltd. in its purchase of a minority stake in Steven Spielberg’s Amblin Pictures production company.°
- Served as co-counsel to Charles King and MACRO in the launch of MACRO, King’s groundbreaking new media company targeting the multicultural market.°
- Served as co-counsel to Participant Media in numerous M&A transactions involving entertainment and media businesses, including:
- Its acquisition of an equity stake in the Evolution Media Capital Growth Fund sponsored by TPG Growth, the tech-media focused growth equity investment platform of global investment firm TPG.°
- Its acquisition of Documentary Channel, Inc. and Halogen Networks, and the negotiation of affiliation agreements with DirecTV and DISH Networks.°
- Its investment in Cineflix Media, a Canadian television production and distribution company.°
- The sale of its equity position in Summit Entertainment to Lion’s Gate Entertainment.°
- Advised Shine Limited in (i) its $125 million acquisition of the Reveille independent television production business, (ii) multiple executive employment matters and litigation, and (iii) Shine’s $675 million sale to News Corporation.°
- Advised Legendary Entertainment in its acquisition of Asylum Entertainment, and in other corporate, refinancing, and M&A matters.°
- Represented Zenith Energy Terminals in its acquisition of three interconnected terminals in greater Los Angeles from Plains All American Pipeline.°
- Advised ConAm Management Corporation in the formation of the ConAm Muiltifamily Acquisition Fund, and ConAm’s real estate joint venture, financing, and property acquisition matters.°
- Represented Cerberus Capital Management in its investment in Spyglass Entertainment and its subsequent sale to Metro Goldwyn Mayer in a pre-packaged bankruptcy.°
- Represented Berkeley Research Group, Lincoln International, Morgan Stanley, Houlihan Lokey, and other financial advisors in their role providing fairness and solvency opinions and valuation analyses in public and private transactions.°
- Represented Goldman Sachs in the structuring and closing of its US$7.5 billion flagship private equity fund.°
- Represented Caltius Private Equity Partners in the sale of the Davexlabs hair-care business to Westview Capital Partners.°
°The above representations were handled by Mr. Monroe prior to his joining Greenberg Traurig, LLP.
Wyróżnienia i aktywność zawodowa
- Listed, Chambers USA Guide, 2004-2021
- Listed, The Legal 500 United States, 2023 and 2025
- Media and Entertainment: Transactional, 2025
- M&A Large Deals $1Bn+, 2023
- Sports, Media, Technology, and Telecoms: Telecoms and Broadcast, 2012, 2019-2020
- Listed, Los Angeles Business Journal, “Top Minority Attorneys in Los Angeles,” 2020
- Listed, Variety
- “Legal Impact Report,” 2020
- “Dealmakers,” 2018-2020
- Listed, The Hollywood Reporter, “Power Players List,” 2019
- California Lawyers Association Business Law Section Opinions Committee, 2024
Wykształcenie i uprawnienia do wykonywania zawodu
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J.D., University of California at Berkeley School of Law
- Articles Editor, California Law Review
- B.A., Georgetown University
- California