Entertainment and Media Lawyer Ken Deutsch Moves From Latham & Watkins to Paul Hastings

variety.com:

Peter Caranicas Deputy Editor Prominent entertainment attorney Ken Deutsch has switched from one powerful firm to another, leaving Latham & Watkins to join Paul Hastings as a partner and global co-chair of the entertainment and media practice.

At Latham & Watkins, Deutsch was global co-chair of the firm’s entertainment, sports, and media group. Deutsch’s move boosts the already impressive Paul Hastings entertainment and media team.

On the transactions side it includes Craig Emanuel (who was named Variety’s Power of Law Honoree this year), David Hernand, Mickey Mayerson, Susan Williams and Sean A.

Monroe. In litigation, it boasts the services of Steven Marenberg, Tamerlin Godley, James (Bo) Pearl and Josh Gordon. Like Deutsch, all have been featured in Variety’s Legal Impact Report. “Ken is one of the entertainment industry’s elite transactional lawyers, known for working on blockbuster projects and alongside A-list clients,” said Paul Hastings chair Frank Lopez in a statement. “His addition to our practice furthers our strategic growth across our entertainment and media practice and in California.” “My client base is primarily composed of independent content and media companies, as well as financiers and investors in the entertainment and media space, and the ‘special sauce’ of my practice has always been the ability to not only handle clients’ biggest and most complicated corporate and finance transactions, but to also have my finger on the pulse of the industry,” said Deutsch in a statement to Variety.