Biographical

Peter Bierstedt

Entertainment Industry Consultant & Attorney

Telephone: (323) 667-2698 Email: peter@bierstedt.com

Business and legal consultant to the entertainment industry: including providing business affairs and legal services to industry individuals and corporations; conceptualizing, negotiating, closing and documenting business deals; creation and supervision of business and legal affairs departments of motion picture and television companies; formulation of business and financial plans, service on boards of directors, expert witness in litigations, and other activities

Current Professional Data:

	Entertainment Attorney in solo practice since 1988
	Principal (with Carol Lynn Akiyama) of Bierstedt, Akiyama & Associates (the entertainment business consulting firm) since 1982
	Member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences since 1981 (serving on its Foreign Language Award Committee 1996-2007 and on its Feature Animation Award Committee 2008-2009)
	Member of the Los Angeles Copyright Society since 1977
	Admitted to practice law in California (since 1977) and New York (since 1969) and before various federal courts, including the United States Supreme Court (since 1973)
	Continually listed in Who's Who in America since 1982

Education:

	Columbia Law School: J.D., 1969 (cum laude)
	La Sorbonne (Paris, France): Cert., 1966
	Columbia College: B.A., 1965 (Dean's List)
	Stanford University (1961-62);
	High School: graduated from Leonia High School (Leonia, N.J., 1961); also attended George Watson's College (Edinburgh, Scotland, 1959-60)

Previous Employment:

New World Entertainment (1984-88):

Member of the Board of Directors (1987-88)

Senior Executive Vice President in the Office of the Chairmen (highest ranking corporate officer after the three Co-Chairmen)(1987-88)

Executive Vice President (1985-87)

General Counsel (1984-87)

President of various subsidiaries (1986-88), including serving as President of New World Productions, New World Advertising, NWT Productions, Inc., NWT Directions, Inc., Cine Qua Non, Rags Productions, Inc., Poker Productions, Inc., Believers Productions, Inc., Tour of Duty Productions, After Promise Productions Inc., Echoes in The Darkness Productions Inc.

Instrumental in several public financings in the United States and Australia that raised a total of $321,689,731 for New World's motion picture production and general corporate purposes; also responsible for numerous private financings for New World

During Peter Bierstedt's tenure, the executive team turned New World Entertainment (n?New World Pictures) into the largest independent film and television company in the United States, and it's annual revenues soared during each year of service:

Avco Embassy Pictures (1977-83)

Joined company as its junior staff attorney in 1977

Appointed Vice President & General Counsel one year later

One year later, appointed company's Senior Vice President (second highest ranking executive in company) and a Member of its Board of Directors

During Peter Bierstedt's tenure, the executive team turned Avco Embassy Pictures into the largest independent film and television company in the United States, and its annual revenues soared during each year of service:

	Boards of Directors: member of the Boards of Directors of New World Entertainment and Avco Embassy Pictures and also the Boards of Directors of the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), FilmDallas Pictures, New World/Mutual Pictures of Canada, Ltd., New World Pictures (Australia) Limited, Orbit Entertainment, and Cinedco
	Executive Producer of The Comic Book Greats, a series of 13 home videos (1992): Comicbook legend Stan Lee interviews Todd McFarlane and other other leading comicbook artists of that time
	Attorney in solo practice (1971, 1975-76, 1983-85 and since 1988); also practiced law with Hardee Barovick Konecky & Braun (1972-74 and 1976)(a major entertainment law firm) and with Davis Polk & Wardwell (1969-70)(a major Wall Street law firm)
	University Guest Lecturer, e.g., "Producing Motion Pictures: Making a Studio Deal," University of Southern California, 1986; "Wide Release of a Studio Motion Picture, Limited Release of an Independent Distributor's Motion Picture and the Acquisition of a Completed Motion Picture by a Distribution Company," University of California at Los Angeles, 1987; "Foreign Sales Agents," Intellectual Property and Unfair Competition Section of the Los Angeles County Bar Association, 1989; "Matrimonial Law," University of California At Riverside, 1977-1978.; and at various times at Leonard Shapiro's course on Independent Motion Picture Production and Distribution at University of California at Los Angeles.
	Other Work Experiences include New York City taxi driver, door-to-door encyclopedia salesman in New York City, government employee (Port of New York Authority), and manager of a Danish rock group (Savage Rose)

Personal Interests:

	Scuba diving, tennis, science, movies, photography, literature, investment analysis, and global adventure
	Married to Lieschen Bierstedt

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