Andrew P. Hurwitz, Esq.
Partner

Partner Andrew Hurwitz practices in the firm’s motion picture and television group. Clients include both first-time and Academy Award winning filmmakers, independent producers as well as major motion picture studios, and television networks in the United States and abroad.  In addition to individual representation, his practice concentrates on financing and distribution matters, both in film and cable television programming.  This includes assisting his clients in packaging and securing distribution for their projects and in raising funding.  He also renders services in corporate matters, including structuring acquisitions and joint ventures and the representation of senior executives at major studios.

Beginning with a background in international business law, Mr. Hurwitz’ fifteen years of legal and business experience include practice in the media and technology group at Roger & Wells (now called Clifford & Chance) and helmsmanship of Prague’s Central Europe Institute, a non-profit company supporting Czechoslovakia’s first-time entrepreneurs.  Within the entertainment community, Mr. Hurwitz is a frequent guest speaker, lecturing on entertainment law topics and negotiations at industry associations and at various law schools and film schools throughout the country.  He has also shared his tactical knowledge relating to the negotiation of industry agreements in publications sponsored by the UCLA Entertainment Law Symposium and the Practicing Law Institute.  Variety has named him one of the top players in independent film for three years running.

Mr. Hurwitz is a founding partner of Epstein, Levinsohn, Bodine, Hurwitz & Weinstein, LLP.  He was admitted to the New York Bar in 1989.  He received his J.D., cum laude, from Georgetown University Law Center, where he served as an editor of the Law and Policy in International Business Law Journal and was awarded the prestigious Micum Prize for the best legal writing by a second year student.