About Sean A. Monroe

Sean A. Monroe advises entertainment and media companies, motion picture and television studios, content creators, ad-tech businesses, entertainment finance companies, as well as producers, financiers and distributors of digital content. He also counsels private equity, venture capital, and hedge funds on mergers and acquisitions, investments, joint ventures, private equity transactions, and other corporate finance matters. In addition, Sean works with global financial services providers, real estate development and acquisition companies, family offices, and investment advisors on a range of business transactions. His practice encompasses fund formation and investments, portfolio company acquisitions and divestitures, restructurings, venture capital transactions, and executive employment and compensation structures. Sean has also advised owners and investors in M&A and investment transactions involving professional sports franchises and Esports leagues.

Sean guides entertainment and media clients through a wide range of industry transactions, including motion picture financings, television business acquisitions and investments, digital and new media venture formations, and matters involving investment, disposition, and licensing. He handles complex domestic and cross-border M&A transactions across various sectors and advises on joint ventures and strategic partnerships. Sean also counsels clients on federal and state securities laws, corporate governance matters, and related issues involving tax, intellectual property, employee benefits, ERISA, environmental, and bankruptcy and insolvency.

As a component of his broader transactional practice, Sean represents financial advisors providing third-party fairness and solvency opinions in both public and private transactions. He structures and negotiates early-stage formation, capital-raising, and investment transactions for startups and emerging companies and advises strategic investors on corporate venture capital investments.

Concentrations

•Private equity and venture capital
•General corporate and transactional matters
•Domestic and cross-border mergers and acquisitions

Recognition & Leadership

Awards & Accolades

•Listed, Chambers USA Guide, 2004-2021
•Listed, The Legal 500 United States, 2023 and 2025
•Media and Entertainment: Transactional, 2025
•M&A Large Deals $1Bn+, 2023
•Sports, Media, Technology, and Telecoms: Telecoms and Broadcast, 2012, 2019-2020
•Listed, Los Angeles Business Journal, “Top Minority Attorneys in Los Angeles,” 2020
•Listed, Variety
•“Legal Impact Report,” 2020
•“Dealmakers,” 2018-2020
•Listed, The Hollywood Reporter, “Power Players List,” 2019

 

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Areas of Law

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    • Entertainment, Media & Sports
    • Technology, Media & Telecommunications
    • Venture Capital & Emerging Technology
    • Sports Law Corporate
    • Video Games & Esports
    • Mergers & Acquisitions
    • Private Equity

Practice Details

  • Firm Information
    Position
    Shareholder
    Firm Name
    Greenberg Traurig, LLP
  • Representative Cases & Transactions
    Cases
    Experience: Representative Matters: Advised Paramount Global, Warner Bros. Discovery,
    The CW Network in a definitive agreement for Nexstar Media Group to acquire a 75% ownership interest in The CW television network.
    Represented AT&T Inc.
    WarnerMedia in selling the TMZ television production to Fox Corp.
    Represented The Friedkin Group in its controlling stake acquisition of the professional Italian football club AS Roma.
    Represented The Friedkin Group in its acquisition of the French professional football club AS Cannes.
    Advised 30WEST, a leading-edge investment
    advisory company focused on film, media,
    other areas of popular culture, in its acquisition of majority ownership in NEON, the leading theatrical marketing
    distribution company in the independent film space
    Altitude Film Entertainment, a vertically integrated film company encompassing production, finance, international sales
    UK distribution.
    Led the M&A team representing Chenghe Acquisition II Co., a special purpose acquisition company, in the negotiation
    execution of a business combination agreement with Polibeli Group Ltd., a B2B e-commerce platform headquartered in Indonesia.
    Advised CODE Advisors in the sale of the boutique investment bank specializing in tech
    media capital raising
    M&A to the Raine Group.
    Guided Cresco Labs, a vertically integrated multistate operator, in its acquisition of Laurel Harvest Labs, LLC.
    Counseled the corporate venture capital division of a leading telecommunications company on numerous corporate venture capital investments supporting
    funding tech startups with a particular focus on artificial intelligence (AI) technologies.
    Represented PartnersAdmin LLC in its sale to TMF Group, a provider of global administrative services, including fund accounting
    administration.
    Advised Endeavor in its acquisition of br
    ing
    marketing firm 160over90.
    Represented Alibaba Pictures Group Ltd. in its purchase of a minority stake in Steven Spielberg's Amblin Pictures production company.
    Served as co-counsel to Charles King
    MACRO in the launch of MACRO, King's groundbreaking new media company targeting the multicultural market.
    Served as co-counsel to Participant Media in numerous M&A transactions involving entertainment
    media businesses, including: Its acquisition of an equity stake in the Evolution Media Capital Growth Fund sponsored by TPG Growth, the tech-media focused growth equity investment platform of global investment firm TPG.
    Its acquisition of Documentary Channel, Inc.
    Halogen Networks,
    the negotiation of affiliation agreements with DirecTV
    DISH Networks.
    Its investment in Cineflix Media, a Canadian television production
    distribution company.
    The sale of its equity position in Summit Entertainment to Lion's Gate Entertainment.
    Advised Shine Limited in (i) its $125 million acquisition of the Reveille independent television production business, (ii) multiple executive employment matters
    litigation,
    (iii) Shine's $675 million sale to News Corporation.
    Advised Legendary Entertainment in its acquisition of Asylum Entertainment,
    in other corporate, refinancing,
    M&A matters.
    Represented Zenith Energy Terminals in its acquisition of three interconnected terminals in greater Los Angeles from Plains All American Pipeline.
    Advised ConAm Management Corporation in the formation of the ConAm Muiltifamily Acquisition Fund,
    ConAm's real estate joint venture, financing,
    property acquisition matters.
    Represented Cerberus Capital Management in its investment in Spyglass Entertainment
    its subsequent sale to Metro Goldwyn Mayer in a pre-packaged bankruptcy.
    Represented Berkeley Research Group, Lincoln International, Morgan Stanley, Houlihan Lokey,
    other financial advisors in their role providing fairness
    solvency opinions
    valuation analyses in public
    private transactions.
    Represented Goldman Sachs in the structuring
    closing of its US$7.5 billion flagship private equity fund.
    Represented Caltius Private Equity Partners in the sale of the Davexlabs hair-care business to Westview Capital Partners.
    The above representations were h
    led by Mr. Monroe prior to his joining Greenberg Traurig, LLP.
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Experience

  • Bar Admission & Memberships
    Admissions
    1996, California
    Memberships

    Professional & Community Involvement

    •California Lawyers Association Business Law Section Opinions Committee, 2024

  • Education & Certifications
    Law School
    University of California at Berkeley School of Law
    Class of 1996
    J.D.
    Other Education
    Georgetown University
    Class of 1992
    B.A.
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  • What year was this attorney first admitted to the bar?
    Sean A. Monroe was admitted in 1996 to the State of California.
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    Yes, Sean A. Monroe has a 5.0 Peer Rating from Martindale-Hubbell.
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    Greenberg Traurig, LLP has 2750 attorneys at this location.
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    Greenberg Traurig, LLP was established in 1967.