Enenstein & Ribakoff

professionals

Pamela Bille

Darren S. Enenstein

Ruth Lynn Estep

Peter R. Fischer

Ned Gelhaar

Cathy Kazemi

Teri T. Pham

Robert A. Rabbat

Stephen J. Rafferty

David Z. Ribakoff

Michael T. Rosenthal

Joshua White

Richard E. Wirick

Peter R. Fischer - Partner

pfischer@Enensteinlaw.com

Peter R. Fischer Peter Fischer is a transactional partner with the Firm specializing in general corporate and financing matters. Mr. Fischer also maintains a diverse entertainment and intellectual property practice focused primarily on film, television and new media. He has worked extensively with both domestic and foreign clients ranging from financial institutions to established companies, startups, and high net-worth individuals.

Fischer’s practice includes the representation of clients across a wide variety of industries including real estate, investment banking, entertainment, software, retail and healthcare.

Notable Transactions & Experience

General Corporate Matters

Represented a California skilled nursing care company in connection with the restructuring of the company’s outstanding equity and the negotiation of a first and second lien credit facility.

Represented a manufacturer and worldwide supplier of mobile data capture and delivery equipment in connection with that company’s loan facility and its licensing arrangements.

Represented a private equity fund in connection with the fund’s leveraged buyout with certain co-investors of a leading provider of auction and remarketing services in the power-sports industry.

Represented a real estate development company in the structuring of a Regulation D private placement of securities in connection with that company’s formation of a foreclosure fund in Memphis, Tennessee.

Represented a mobile home park operator in California in connection with the negotiation and structuring of a debt restructuring and settlement agreement by and among the park operator, its mobile home broker-client and the broker’s inventory financier.

Finance Matters

Represented a major financial institution as agent for a group of lenders in the real estate financing of the L.A. Live complex in downtown Los Angeles.

Represented a money-center bank as agent for a syndicate of financial institutions in the $1.9B senior secured revolving credit and multiple term loan facility for the financing of the design, development, construction and operation of multiple casino and hotel projects in Macau by a major Las Vegas casino company.

Represented a real estate development company in the establishment of a joint venture and the raising of financing with certain co-investors to invest in distressed trust deed assets.

Entertainment and Intellectual Property Matters

Represented a major independent production and distribution company in connection with that company’s acquisition of a specialty film division from a major studio.

Represented a major entertainment lender in connection with the $67.5MM production and P&A loan to an independent production company for a slate of six motion pictures.

Represented a real estate-backed production company in connection with a $5.5MM single-picture production loan for that company’s first motion picture.

Represented an independent production company in connection with the restructuring of its existing debt and equity and the formation of its new holding company.

Represented a well-known horror/thriller author and agent in the option and sale of multiple literary properties and the subsequent development and production of film projects based thereon.

Represented a writer/director in the licensing of his projects for the television and internet markets.

Represented a new media production company in the licensing of multiple properties to a major studio for domestic and international development and production.

Represented a startup new media company in connection with the formation of an internet streaming music service.

Former Experience and Education
Before joining Enenstein & Ribakoff as a partner, Mr. Fischer was an attorney with Loeb & Loeb in that firm’s transactional entertainment group, as well as formerly a corporate attorney with Sheppard, Mullin, Richter and Hampton, and Latham & Watkins.

Mr. Fischer earned his undergraduate degree from Union College and, after living and working in Osaka, Japan for two years, received his law degree, with honors, from American University’s Washington College of Law in Washington D.C.

Bar Admissions
New York, California