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Susan Zuckerman Williams
Partner

Susan Williams focuses her on practice on motion picture financing, with broad experience in the legal and business aspects of complex debt and equity transactions for single pictures as well as multipicture and overall company financings. Her clients are financial institutions, high-net-worth individuals, completion guarantors, distributors and producers.

Ms. Williams is experienced in structuring and advising on domestic and international tax-advantaged, subsidy, co-production and other soft money transactions; film securitizations; large senior secured credit facilities; gap financing deals and equity investments in films and/or film companies. She also has broad experience in general entertainment matters, including the distribution, acquisition and selling of motion pictures both domestically and internationally.

Ms. Williams has been interviewed about film finance issues for various trade publications, including Daily Variety and The Hollywood Reporter.

Publications/Speeches

  • Speaker, Made in the USA: Domestic Incentives and How To Use Them (June 24, 2006)
  • Moderator, 2005 Women in Film and Television Summit, Los Angeles, California (October 29-November 1, 2005)
  • Featured Profile, For Movie Deals, She’s the Go-To Lawyer, California Law Business (March 2001)
  • Featured, Ticket Snub: As Hollywood Tightens Its Belt, Distributors Are Jilting Risky Independent Films, Los Angeles Daily Journal (May 2001)
  • Faculty, 4th National Summit for Women in Law Firms (May 2001)
  • Featured, Bond Biz Booms with Co-productions (November 2000)
  • Guest Lecturer, USC Law School
  • Speaker, Independent Film Finance

Media Mentions


Affiliations

  • Member, Women in Film

Distinctions

  • Honored as Women’s Image Network’s Outstanding Woman (WOW!) for 2006

Practice Areas Education
University of Southern California, Gould School of Law, J.D., 1986
Tufts University, B.A., 1983, cum laude
Bar Admissions
California, 1986
Languages
French
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