Mara P. Canner is counsel to our Corporate & Finance Group. For over 25 years, she has advised well-known media, advertising, and entertainment companies and their executives on mergers, acquisitions, sales, joint ventures, partnerships, sponsorships, and other complex corporate transactions - both in the US and in cross-border transactions.
Ms. Canner's substantive experience and personal relationships combine to make her one of the nation's most sought-after corporate attorneys for deal negotiations in these industries, and she is often called upon to advise foreign-based companies on M&A and other transactions as they set up and expand operations in the US.
Ms. Canner has a long track record of success in helping to launch new ventures -- advising founders on their relationships with new partners, counseling on executive compensation, negotiating and structuring financing, establishing business operations, and consummating sales and other exits. While her experience runs to many different industries, she has special expertise negotiating and structuring transactions for clients in the marketing services, commercial production and post-production verticals.
Ms. Canner has represented some of the country's most successful media, advertising and entertainment entities, including The Tribeca Film Festival, @radical.media, Anomaly Partners and Firstborn Multimedia Corporation.
Prior to joining Frankfurt Kurnit, Ms. Canner served as Deputy General Counsel of The Multicare Companies, Inc., a publicly held healthcare company. She is admitted to practice in New York.
education
George Washington University (J.D., with honors, 1990)
-Member of the Law Review
University of Michigan (B.A., with high honors, 1987)
Frankfurt Kurnit Advises Medstar in Sale of Forensic Files True Crime Television Catalog
Content Partners, LLC, a leading independent owner of major studio-distributed films and television shows, has acquired from Medstar Television 400 Forensic Files episodes, and international distribution rights to Forensic Files II. Created by Paul Dowling, the President and CEO of Frankfurt Kurnit client Medstar Television, Forensic Files is a pioneer of true crime television. The series aired from 1996—2011 on TLC, and is currently on CNN-owned HLN network, streamed on digital platforms by FilmRise, and distributed to television outlets around the world. Read more.
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