Professional Profile

PRACTICE AREAS
Entertainment
Copyright and Literary Property
Arbitration

EDUCATION
Columbia Law School, JD; Yale University, BA

BAR ADMISSIONS
New York; California

PRACTICE OVERVIEW
Ezra Doner specializes in the production, finance and distribution of motion pictures and other entertainment programs and products, as well as copyright and literary property. He also practices in the Internet and new media areas and in arbitration, both as an arbitrator and an advocate.

Mr. Doner has more than 25 years’ experience representing financiers, producers, distributors, and exhibitors of filmed entertainment, rights holders, film makers, writers and other artists, and companies and entrepreneurs, across all entertainment, media and information industry sectors.

Mr. Doner’s client work includes complex rights transactions, film and television library transactions including financings, co-production and distribution arrangements, purchase of entertainment assets in bankruptcies, high level talent and film maker agreements, bank representation in work-outs, and innovative film finance transactions. 

Mr. Doner has been a partner in major national law firms and has been an business and legal affairs executive, including Miramax Films, where he was head of the department.

MEMBERSHIPS

AMEC (Association of Media and Entertainment Counsel) – Chairman Emeritus of the NY Steering Committee

ABA (American Bar Association) – Forum on Sports & Entertainment Law ABA – Committee on Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) for Sports & Entertainment

ABCNY (Association of the Bar of the City of New York) – Entertainment Law and Copyright Committees

IFTA (Independent Film and Television Alliance) – Arbitration Panel

BAFTA (British Academy of Film & Television Arts) – member at large