Michael P. Overn
Of Counsel

Michael P. Overn practices in the firm’s film group.  Mr. Overn’s expertise is primarily concentrated in the areas of transactional corporate, entertainment & art law.  He provides production, financing, corporate, and individual legal services to a variety of clients in the film, television, music, internet, publishing and visual arts fields.  He has negotiated and drafted agreements in all areas of entertainment including producer, director, writer and talent agreements, literary and screenplay rights purchases, domestic and foreign distribution deals, television production agreements, recording contracts and private equity film financing documents.  Mr. Overn’s clients include film and television production companies, writer/directors, visual artists and non-profit organizations.

Mr. Overn has experience in the area of corporate law, as well as in the area of arts management, where for 10 years prior to becoming an attorney, he managed the career of visual and performance artist Karen Finley.  He is an experienced mediator, mediating art-related disputes for Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts.  He is also familiar with non-profit law, having worked for Lawyers Alliance of New York, providing legal services to non-profit groups.

Mr. Overn joined Epstein, Levinsohn Bodine, Hurwitz, and Weinstein in 2001.  Prior to that, he worked for 3 years as an associate in the New York corporate department of Weil, Gotshal & Manges, LLP.  He received his JD, magna cum laude, in 1998 from Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law and was admitted to the NY bar in 1999.