China Practice — Media and Entertainment

Our China Team advises a broad variety of domestic and international clients in the media and entertainment fields. The team has experience in international and domestic film financing, tax planning, copyright, trademark and patent matters, and a wide range of media and entertainment transactions and litigation. Our China lawyers work closely with Intellectual Property law colleagues to monitor the burgeoning areas of emerging technologies, new media and the convergence of entertainment, telecommunications and the Internet, as well as the development of China's domestic market access and liberalizing investment laws. Representative media and entertainment-related matters include:

• Advised Link Media in the private equity investment by Walden International and CBC. Link Media operates a Chinese outdoor LED advertising business, an area attracting strong investor interest since the recent NASDAQ IPO of China's Focus Media. Link Media will use its CDMA radio transmission technology to deliver classified advertisements through its outdoor LED displays in different cities across China, including Beijing and Shanghai. The outdoor LED displays will broadcast news content provided by the People's Daily.
• Advised Intelsat on the establishment of a joint venture to provide broadband and satellite services in Hong Kong and China, including advice relating to Pay TV investments.
• Advised Galaxy TV Broadcasting (a Hong Kong-based pay TV company) in its corporate restructuring and television programming arrangements with a variety of multinational service providers.
• Advised Live Nation (formerly Clear Channel Entertainment) in various joint venture projects established in China to promote live entertainment events, venue management, merchandising and related businesses.
• Advised Anschutz Entertainment Group (AEG), one of the world's largest sports and entertainment presenters, in its operations and investments in China, including the development of the company's Asia expansion strategy and key elements of its strategy to bring top-quality international events to Asia.
• Advised Alibaba.com and the principal shareholders of Alibaba in connection with certain aspects of the US$1 billion investment by Yahoo! in Alibaba.com. Alibaba.com operates China's largest business-to-business auction site promoting the sale of Chinese manufactured goods to a global market, as well as the consumer auction site Taobao.com.
• Advised China Poly Group on the promotion and sponsorship of entertainment arrangements in Shanghai.
• Advised China Construction Bank on its bid for an Olympic sponsorship.
• Advised the Beijing Organizing Committee for the Olympic Games with respect to the Host City Contract with the International Olympic Committee.
• Advised DreamWorks on various projects in Asia, including a series of production agreements and financial agreements with a Hong Kong special effects company for computer graphics animated television programs and the review of intellectual property regimes in eight countries in Asia.
• Advised Columbia TriStar International Television (now "Sony Pictures Television International") on its investments and activities in Hong Kong and China.
• Advised an investment group in the acquisition of a strategic stake in China's largest film producer.
• Advised a global telecommunications company on the establishment of a national radio programming network in China.

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