GHJ Entertainment Partner Ilan Haimoff and Jason Squire, Professor Emeritus at USC School of Cinematic Arts and editor of The Movie Business Book Fourth Edition, are back for another episode of GHJ’s “Movie Business Podcast Series.” In this episode, Ilan and Jason interview Banc of California Senior Director and Market Executive Adrian Ward to discuss the financi [...]

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) established several new funding sources to support healthcare entities in their response to the coronavirus pandemic. One such source is the Provider Relief Fund (PRF), for which HHS allocated $178 billion to be distributed to prevent, prepare for and respond to COVID-19, and as of the end of July 2021, over $118 [...]

Coauthored with Alexander Anderson and Viqar Shariff, O’Melveny A Special Purchase Acquisition Company, commonly referred to as a “SPAC,” has become so popular that hardly a day goes by without hearing about it in the media. As the name implies, a SPAC is formed in order to acquire another company. This blog will provide a high-level overview of SPACs and discuss [...]

Governor Newsom signed the California State Budget 2021-2022 (the Budget) on July 12 with total funding of $262.6 billion. The key economic and tax highlights of the state Budget are as follows: SALT DEDUCTION WORKAROUND AND ENTITY-LEVEL TAX FOR PASS-THROUGHS The Budget includes the SALT workaround of the $10,000 federal cap on individuals’ deductions for state and [...]

“That is the way the cookie crumbles” is an idiom often used when something bad happens and one must accept the outcome. But for Loren Brill Castle, founder and CEO of better-for-you cookie company Sweet Loren’s, that is a phrase she cannot accept. After beating a cancer diagnosis in her 20s, she embarked on a new healthy lifestyle. As a result, she created Sweet Lore [...]

Principal and Business Disruption Expert David Sutton returns for a new episode of GHJ’s “Business Disruption and Resilience Podcast” series about how businesses respond to disruption and adversity. In this episode, Tim Miklaucic, CEO and Founder of Cordoba Music Group (a leading manufacturer and distributor of acoustic and electric guitars, ukuleles and musical inst [...]

As media consumption continues to transition away from physical media like DVD and Blu-ray into digital formats, the topic of “Big Data” has become more prevalent and a growing area of concern for rights holders, producers and film studios alike (licensors). According to The Digital Entertainment Group, digital rentals or transactional video-on-demand (TVOD) and digit [...]

Employee resource groups (ERGs) are voluntary, employee-led cohorts whose members have shared characteristics like gender, ethnicity or interests. According to TopMBA, 90 percent of Fortune 500 companies have ERGs. These groups help support employees’ personal and professional goals while fostering a more diverse and inclusive workplace. Focused on DEI, GHJ launched [...]

Originally published in INSIDE Public Accounting Difficult times bring out the best in people. Necessity is the mother of invention. There is no education like adversity. While these maxims might be cliché, their insights ring true. There is no going back to how companies operated pre-pandemic: long commutes, a typical 9-to-5 workday, daily face-to-face interaction [...]

GHJ Entertainment Partner Ilan Haimoff and Jason E. Squire, professor at USC School of Cinematic Arts and editor of The Movie Business Book Fourth Edition, are back for another episode of GHJ’s Movie Business Podcast Series. In this episode, Ilan and Jason interview Steve Mangel of UniFi Completion Guarantors to discuss completion bonds and their role in movie pr [...]