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PIERRE VUDRAG

Pierre Vudrag has close to 25 years of entertainment industry experience-- having held a wide range of executive positions throughout the music, television, new media and legal affairs areas of the business. In a career that has run the gamut from music label owner to television legal department head, Pierre has cultivated an assortment of leadership, communication, relationship-management and team-building skills, and is accomplished in a variety of entertainment disciplines.

Prior to opening his legal practice in 2011, Pierre spent more than 10 years as in-house legal and business affairs counsel for two cable networks that were among the industry’s fastest growing during his respective tenures: Fox Cable Networks and Tennis Channel. As general counsel and head of business and legal affairs for Tennis Channel from 2006-2010, he was instrumental in negotiating key distribution deals that took the network from four million to 29 million homes. He crafted numerous programming agreements that raised the network’s profile, among them rights contracts for three of the sport’s four major tournaments, the prestigious Wimbledon, the French Open and the Australian Open.

In addition to formalizing strategic partnerships with Yahoo! and ESPN, he oversaw all business negotiations across all areas of the network, including new media, sales, marketing, acquisition, licensing, development, production, talent, music, employment, outsourcing, intellectual property, litigation matters, and lease and construction. He also managed the legal details associated with the set up and operations of the network’s media production and distribution facility, and the network’s Las Vegas Tennis Tournament.

Pierre spent six years at Fox Cable Networks before joining Tennis Channel. As manager of business and legal affairs he handled all production, legal, risk management, rights and clearances, and other matters for Fox Sports’ original programs. Among these were Best Damn Sports Show Period, Beyond the Glory and 54321. He also negotiated programming sponsorship agreements that generated more than $200 million in revenue and brokered agreements that outlined software licensing, online content and mobile media.

Starting his entertainment career on the music side of the business, Pierre worked for several of the industry’s largest and most successful international record companies before eventually launching and managing his own record label. Over the course of a dozen years he moved from A&R executive to owner, working with PolyGram Records, A&M Records, Warner Brothers Records and his own Mutiny Records. He secured substantial start-up capital, expanded global distribution, released several critically acclaimed albums and was an early negotiator in the blossoming digital music delivery rights industry. During this time he worked with Soundgarden, Barry White, Sting, Korn, and Sheryl Crow, among others.

Pierre is a frequent legal journal contributor, periodically penning articles on the latest issues and guidelines in the world of copyright law and television rights issues. He earned his J.D. from the University of West Los Angeles and is an active member of both The State Bar of California and Beverly Hills Bar Association.