Alan Jerold Abrams

Alan Abrams is a partner in the firm and is head of the Costa Abrams & Coate Entertainment Transactions Department overseeing business and legal affairs for the firm's transactional clients in the entertainment industry. Alan began his career in the entertainment industry with the Writers Guild Of America, West, in 1978 where he served as Associate Resident Counsel handling grievance and arbitration proceedings and assorted other matters for screen and television writers in the film and television industry. Several years later, Alan then moved into private legal practice with the small, but highly successful entertainment boutique law firm of Russell & Glickman where he assisted the producers of many of the top ten television series of the day, including "Three's Company" and "Barney Miller". After a successful run in private practice, Alan then joined Paramount Pictures Corporation in the television legal affairs area, representing Paramount in connection with its successful television series of the day, its ongoing television development activities, and in connection with several of its highly successful "Star Trek" series of feature motion pictures. After leaving Paramount, Alan joined the then premier independent film "mini studio", Cannon Films, where he oversaw the development, production and distribution of Cannon's extensive film output, with a special emphasis on banking, cable and video exploitation of the Cannon library and current product and foreign sales of independently financed motion pictures. Following Cannon, Alan rejoined Paramount in the television business affairs department where he oversaw the legal and business affairs for many of its successful syndicated television series and was instrumental in setting up and overseeing its successful late night talk show, "The Arsenio Hall Show". In 1989, Alan was named Vice President of Business Affairs for Imagine Films where he helped usher in many of its early hit theatrical motion pictures, such as "Parenthood", "Kindergarten Cop", "Backdraft" and "Far and Way."