Karen Robson

Karen Robson,a Partner of the US Law firm of Pryor Cashman Sherman & Flynn,has worked primarily in the Film Finance and Production Group of the Entertainment Department since 1986. She represents a variety of financiers, banks, equity investors,high-profile independent producers and production companies for which she structures film finance transactions, as well as, provides production legal representation. She also represents individual writers, directors and producers in the Motion Picture, and Television arenas. Over the past sixteen years she has handled financing on multiple picture deals and single pictures, television mini-series and major documentaries. Some of her practice has included an overall financing distribution arrangement for a major independent producer with United Artists; a $200 million credit facility for a production company based at Warner Brothers on behalf of a bank syndicate; and tax incentive international film financing for a major independent producer. She worked on the first HD 3D film, released by Disney in April 2003. Lately she has been working on international co-production pacts involving equity and distribution for major U.S. motion pictures with budgets in excess of a $100 million dollars. Prior to her career as an attorney she had a brief career as a film actress in Australia, including a major role in Peter Weir's cult favorite, Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975).