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ExecutivesGabriel BrakinVice President of Business and Legal Affairs Gabriel Brakin is Participant Media’s Vice President of Business and Legal Affairs. Gabe is responsible for the Company’s business and legal affairs, including corporate transactional matters such as acquisitions, joint ventures and other strategic alliance opportunities as well as worldwide film financing and licensing transactions. Prior to joining Participant, Gabe was an entertainment and media attorney at O’Melveny & Myers, where his practice focused on representing motion picture studios, independent production companies and financial institutions across a wide variety of entertainment industry transactions involving the development, licensing, sale, acquisition and management of intellectual property assets. While at O’Melveny, Gabe’s practice experience ranged from counseling clients in connection with traditional film development, production, exploitation and finance to the formation of strategic joint ventures and industry-specific mergers and acquisitions. Prior to joining O’Melveny, Gabe served as a law clerk for the Honorable A. Wallace Tashima, on the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in Pasadena, CA, where he contributed to published legal opinions addressing a broad range of issues arising under federal law, including copyright law, immigration law, criminal law, environmental law and civil rights protections such as the first amendment freedom of speech and fourth amendment search and seizure. Gabe attended UCLA for a total of 7 years, earning a B.A. in Political Science in 2001 and a J.D. in 2005. What was your first job? Working as an Emergency Medical Technician on a 9-1-1 response ambulance in LA. It’s certainly not a stretch to say that I learned more from my four years as an EMT than I did from my four years as a college student. It was an incredibly rewarding experience and one from which I continue to draw inspiration and perspective as my career evolves. Who or what inspires you? Connecting with nature – hiking, surfing, camping. If there were one thing you could change about yourself or about the world, what would it be? Have everyone be more tolerant of others.
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