Variety has named two Greenberg Glusker partners, Bert Fields and Stephen Smith, to its 2008 Dealmakers Impact Report, which features the top attorneys, executives, managers and financiers in the entertainment industry. 

"We are honored that Bert and Steve have been recognized among entertainment’s most influential dealmakers," said Greenberg Glusker’s Managing Partner Norman H. Levine.  "We are grateful to our clients--directors, writers, producers, studio, record and videogame company executives, talent managers, and book publishers--for providing us the opportunities to make deals happen on their behalf."

The Dealmakers Impact Report described Fields as “the entertainment industry’s most decorated litigator” for his six decades of work on behalf DreamWorks, MGM/United Artists, Sony Music, Tom Cruise, Warren Beatty, Dustin Hoffman, James Cameron, Mike Nichols, Jeffrey Katzenberg, David Geffen, Jerry Bruckheimer, Joel Silver, Sherry Lansing and Madonna, among others. 

Smith, whose practice primarily focuses on new media and video gaming commented, “the business and tech sides are moving faster than the law world is moving.  Money and technical advances have changed everything.”  During 2008, Smith, along with Partners Suann MacIsaac and Candace Carlo, has successfully negotiated and closed a number of videogame deals, including Ubisoft Entertainment’s acquisition of rights in all media in perpetuity for its line of Tom Clancy-branded games--the first pact of its kind in the industry.

For over 40 years, Greenberg Glusker has enjoyed a unique position as a consistent leader in entertainment transactions and litigation, an achievement in large part attributable to a team of uniquely talented, competent and responsive lawyers.  Fields and Smith are among a small handful of the Dealmakers known for handling both significant transactions and high-profile litigation.