Linda Giunta Michaelson

Linda Michaelson is Practice Group Leader of the firm’s Corporate and Securities Practice Group. Linda spent two years in the firm’s London office, from 2011-2013, and is based in the firm’s Century City office. Linda is also Team Leader of the Entertainment and Digital Media Industry Team.

Areas of Practice

Linda's practice focuses on the representation of companies involved in corporate transactions primarily in the entertainment and digital media, technology, fashion and apparel, renewable energy, and healthcare industries. Linda represents major motion picture studios, television networks, independent production companies, digital media companies, investors and other institutional entertainment, media and convergence clients in strategic transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, strategic alliances and other corporate finance transactions around the world.

Linda represents public and private companies in a variety of corporate transactions including formation planning, mergers and acquisitions, strategic alliances, public and private equity and debt offerings, corporate governance, executive employment and compensation structures, and relationships among shareholders, among other general corporate matters. Linda's clients range from individuals and privately held companies to publicly-traded corporations.

Activities

Member of the Board of Directors and Executive Committee of Bet Tzedek, a pro bono legal services organization (2011-present)

Member of the Advisory Board of the Center for Transactional Law and Practice at Emory University School of Law (2018- present)

Member of the Diversity Committee of Sheppard Mullin (2007-2018); Member of the Century City Office Diversity Committee (2019-present)

Member of the Compensation Committee of Sheppard Mullin (2006-2013)

Honors

Best Lawyers in America, Best Lawyers, 2019-2020

Named in Variety's Dealmakers Impact Report, 2018, 2016

Top Entertainment Attorney, Variety's Legal Impact Report, 2017, 2019

Named in Variety’s Power of Women LA Impact Report, 2016

Media, Technology and Telecoms, Legal 500, 2017-2019

Mergers, Middle Market, Legal 500, 2016, 2018, 2019

Mergers, Acquisitions and Buyouts, Legal 500, 2014

Named a Best Lawyer for Entertainment Law - Motion Pictures & Television, Best Lawyers of America, 2018

Southern California Super Lawyer, 2006-2013

100 Outstanding Women of Los Angeles, Women's Image Network (an organization that recognizes women who have demonstrated superior achievement in their respective entertainment industry-related fields), 2006

Insights

Media Mentions

•Dealmakers Impact Report
Variety, 12.04.2018
•Abrams Artists Agency Acquired By Group Including Longtime Execs, Adam Bold
Deadline, 09.25.2018
•Power of Women L.A. Impact Report
Variety, 10.11.2016
•ZEAVION Holding's $127.5 million acquisition of Gymboree Play & Music
Law360, 07.01.2016
•Lionsgate Invests $200M in Craig Piligian's Pilgrim Studios
The Hollywood Reporter, 11.12.2015
•Sheppard Mullin Advises RadNet In Tender Offer
Daily Journal, 03.11.2014
•Sheppard Mullin Lands Entertainment Group
01.27.2003

Speaking Engagements

•Moderated panel on Digital Media Investing, Presented at Digital Entertainment World (February 2011)
•VC Funding - The Inside Scoop on the Valley, presented at Bootlaw in London (October 2012)
•New York Fashion Week - Fashionable Mergers: What you need to know about Mergers and Acquisitions (February 2011)
•Moderated panel on digital distribution at Winston Baker Film Finance Forum on March 3, 2010 in Los Angeles, CA (March 2010)

Events

•Project General Counsel Workshop
Sheppard Mullin - Los Angeles, 11.14.2019