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Schuyler M. Moore ("Sky") is a partner in the corporate entertainment department of Greenberg Glusker, practicing entertainment, corporate, and tax law. Sky holds his undergraduate degree from UCLA (Phi Beta Kappa, Summa Cum Laude) and his law

degree also from UCLA (first in class). He has been practicing in the entertainment

industry since 1981, and he represents a broad spectrum of clients throughout the

entertainment industry, including producers, sales agents, foreign distributors, and

financiers. Sky has handled some of the largest financing transactions in Hollywood,

including Reliance’s investment in DreamWorks, the Ratpac-Dune slate financing for

Warner Brothers, the Hemisphere slate financing for Sony and Paramount, and the

Hunan Group slate financing for Lionsgate.

He is the author of several books, including The Biz: The Basic Business, Legal, and

Financial Aspects of the Film Industry, a popular book in its 5th edition, Taxation of the

Entertainment Industry, the leading treatise on that topic, and What They Don’t Teach

You in Law School. He was an adjunct professor at the UCLA School of Law and

Business School and an adjunct professor at the USC School of Law, and he is a

frequent speaker and writer on a wide variety of entertainment topics.

Sky has been named a "Power Lawyer" by the Hollywood Reporter; included

in Variety's "Dealmakers Impact Report" and "Legal Impact Report" and named a

leading lawyer in the area of Entertainment and Media: Transactional, recognized as

one of the top 100 lawyers in California by the Daily Journal, and named one of the top

three "Most Influential Lawyers" in media by the National Law Journal. In 2019, he was

named a lifetime “Legal Legend” by The Hollywood Reporter.