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Our China Entertainment Lawyer Rocking The Movie Biz

By Dan Harris

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Our lead China entertainment lawyer (and regular CLB contributor), Mathew Alderson, was just named by Variety Magazine as one of 50 “Game-Changing Attorneys” who “rock the [entertainment law] biz.” And, hey, we couldn’t be prouder. The list consists of those “attorneys whose recent deals and court battles have changed the shape of entertainment,” and near as we can tell, Mathew is the only one based in China.

Variety had this to say about Mathew:

Mathew Alderson
Partner
Harris & Moure, Beijing
University of Queensland, Australia, 1989
Over the past 18 months Alderson has advised on various ventures between Chinese and foreign partners, including feature co-productions, theatrical joint ventures and post-production alliances. The latter have included a number of 3D initiatives — a hot area in China. This work has put him at the point of convergence between China’s production, post and exhibition businesses. “Here in China there are no ancillaries, there’s very little legitimate income stream other than box office, so people are very focused on box office,” Alderson says. “The only way to fully access box office is to co-produce, because co-productions are entitled to a higher box office share than foreign imports.”