Rose PeBenito Shiner

Ms. Shiner is a partner in the Entertainment, Media and Technology Practice Group in the firm's Century City office.

Areas of Practice 

Ms. Shiner concentrates her practice on film finance and other entertainment transactional matters.  She represents banks and other financial institutions and advises clients in various aspects of motion picture lending, complex multi-source financing structures and credit facilities.  Rose counsels clients in numerous types of secured financing transactions and co-production arrangements, U.S. state tax credits, incentives for domestic productions, negative pick-ups, subordinated debt and equity arrangements, P&A financings and syndicated film state financings.   Rose is involved from the beginning stage of structuring the financing, to the due diligence and documentation stages of the transaction, including chain-of-title analysis and corporate due diligence, and the preparation, drafting, negotiation of various loan documents, including loan agreements, security agreements, guaranties, guild subordination agreements, intercreditor agreements, licensing intermediary related documents, distribution agreements, notices of assignment and interparty agreements, letters of credit, completion bonds and numerous other documents required for closing such transactions.

Ms. Shiner advises her clients every step of the way in the documentation of these film finance transactions, including sometimes advising them on potential and existing litigation matters related to entertainment financing, including those involving foreign and domestic film distributors, completion guarantors, directors, producers, and sales agents.

Education

• J.D., Loyola Law School, 1998
• B.S., University of San Francisco, 1993

Admissions

• California

Representative Matters

• Represented Comerica Entertainment Group as administrative agent and collateral agent for the $135 million syndicated secured credit facility for working capital and the financing of a slate of motion pictures to be produced by Axon Film Finance I, LLC and Groundswell Pictures, including, without limitation, Milk, Appaloosa, The Informant and All Good Things.
• Represented Comerica Entertainment Group as administrative agent for the $130 million syndicated secured credit facility for working capital and the financing of a slate of motion pictures to be produced by affiliates of Nu Image, Inc.
• Represented CIT Lending Services Corporation as administrative agent a secured credit facility for working capital and the financing of a slate of motion pictures to be produced by GreeneStreet Films.
• Represented City National Bank as production lender for the current Michael Moore project tentatively entitled Fahrenheit 9/1 1/2.
• Represented Comerica Entertainment Group as the production lender for numerous motion picture projects in various stages of production and distribution, Killing Me Softly a/k/a Cogan's Trade, The Grey, Lola Versus, Sanctum, The Mechanic, District 9, Shorts, The Box, This Side of the Truth, The Expendables, The Experiment, Stone, Smart People, Sicko, Sleuth and The Hunting Party.
• Represented Union Bank as the production lender for numerous motion picture projects in various stages of production and distribution, including Ghostrider 2, The Host and Arbitrage.

Memberships

• UCLA Entertainment Symposium Advisory Committee