Bruce Tobey has signed a brand new multiyear settlement persevering with as Lionsgate EVP & Common Counsel.
Tobey serves on the Firm’s Govt Administration and Working Committees and continues to report back to CEO Jon Feltheimer as a key member of the studio’s management group. As Common Counsel, he leads the studio’s authorized operations, together with transactional issues, litigation, expertise negotiations, copyright points and enterprise partnerships, and he performs a key position in planning and executing a variety of company strategic initiatives.
The renewal caps a yr through which Tobey has spearheaded a group making ready for the total separation of Lionsgate and STARZ into standalone publicly-traded corporations, serving to to supervise an roughly $300 million fairness elevate, the rollout of recent credit score amenities strengthening the businesses’ respective steadiness sheets, organizational and governance planning, and the deliberate collapse of the studio’s two lessons of inventory into one.
Tobey additionally performed a key position in Lionsgate’s profitable integration of eOne following its December 2023 acquisition, and he helped orchestrate the studio’s elevated majority fairness stake in main expertise administration and manufacturing firm 3 Arts Leisure. As well as, Tobey oversees Lionsgate’s AI initiatives designed to extend manufacturing, advertising and marketing and distribution effectivity and supply new instruments for filmmakers, together with its partnership with Runway.
“Bruce is a trusted adviser and a revered chief in finishing up our strategic initiatives and serving to to chart our studio’s continued progress,” mentioned Feltheimer. “We’re lucky to have his insights, experience and management at a crucial inflection level in our Firm’s evolution.”
After spending 15 years in personal apply as a transactional leisure lawyer, Tobey spent 5 years as a member of the senior administration group at Paramount Footage. He then joined CBS Movies as its first worker, constructing the corporate right into a characteristic manufacturing and distribution group whereas overseeing its operations. Earlier than becoming a member of Lionsgate three years in the past, he served as Companion and Head of the Leisure, Sports activities and Media division of O’Melveny & Myers LLP with a apply that centered on transactional leisure, media and sports activities issues, movie and tv, digital media, digital actuality and esports.
