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6 Feb 2008, 10:00 am
  My article, Disloyalty without Limits, discusses some aspects of the case in greater detail.The issue, of course, was the contract awarded to Michael Ovitz, resulting in the payment of somewhere around $160 million for a little over a year of work. [read post]
14 Mar 2007, 5:15 am
In fact, as Ovitz stated in conjunction with the announcement of his departure from the Company, ‘Michael Eisner has been my good friend for 25 years and that will not change . . . [read post]
8 Feb 2008, 10:00 am
  Michael Eisner, because of his close relationship to Michael Ovitz, had an interest in the contract. [read post]
7 May 2020, 8:57 pm by Bona Law PC
” Before I dig into packaging, I have to recommend that you read Michael Ovitz’s autobiography: Who is Michael Ovitz? [read post]
5 Nov 2007, 1:38 pm
If you remember that one, shareholders sued after the board obligingly blessed a $140M severance payment for Disney President Michael Ovitz, whom CEO Michael Eisner had hired with wild enthusiasm only 14 months earlier. [read post]
10 Apr 2008, 5:23 am
LA Times 4/10/08 The Michael Ovitz Tape. [read post]
29 May 2008, 9:41 pm
    High-powered executives such as Grey and Michael Ovitz have testified in the Pellicano matter, and have denied any knowledge of Pellicano's unlawful methods, which included intimidation and bribing police and  phone utility employees to wiretap victims. [read post]
30 Jul 2014, 8:23 pm by Georgialee Lang
To the surprise of many, in 1998 Livent received a $20 million dollar injection from Michael Ovitz, co-founder of Creative Artists Agency, the world’s largest talent agency and later President of Walt Disney Corporation. [read post]
30 Jul 2014, 8:23 pm by Georgialee Lang
To the surprise of many, in 1998 Livent received a $20 million dollar injection from Michael Ovitz, co-founder of Creative Artists Agency, the world’s largest talent agency and later President of Walt Disney Corporation. [read post]
15 Nov 2011, 2:09 pm by Jeff Lipshaw
  The first source of endearment is a small piece of the Disney opinion not often discussed, involving general counsel Sanford Litvack's advice to Michael Eisner about the termination of Ovitz contract for cause rather than the Non-Fault Termination ("NFT") package that engendered the whole litigation shebang. [read post]
27 Sep 2010, 5:26 pm by Jeralyn
The two were seated on a small stage in an open-air tent in front of a rich and powerful crowd that included Martha Stewart, Peter Ueberroth, Monica Seles, David Stern, Karl Rove, George Lucas, Daniel Snyder, Julian Robertson, Michael Ovitz, Alan Greenspan, Andrea Mitchell, Chris Mathews, Michael Eisner, Padma Lakshmi and Ted Forstmann, the Forstmann Little co-founder and IMG CEO who hosted the event. [read post]
7 Feb 2008, 10:00 am
We have been writing about the recent decision by Disney to give Michael Iger, the CEO and president, a new five year contract. [read post]
2 May 2007, 8:12 pm
This is even before considering the exit of Jeffrey Katzenberg, the failure to honor his contract, and the hiring and firing of Michael Ovitz, personnel and judgment errors which, in the cost to Disney and the vitriol and publicity they generated, are without parallel in American business history. [read post]
20 Jun 2010, 4:04 pm by Lawrence B. Ebert
**OF CAA, from wikipedia-->CAA agents employed by the William Morris Agency — Mike Rosenfeld, Michael Ovitz, Ron Meyer, William Haber and Rowland Perkins — met over dinner one night in 1975[2] after they discovered that they all had the same idea in mind: creating an agency of their own. [read post]
2 Mar 2008, 10:40 am
Pellicano did work in connection with disputes for a range of glitterati, such as entertainment lawyer Bert Fields, head of Paramount Brad Grey, and talent agent Michael Ovitz — though none of those three has been charged with wrongdoing. [read post]
14 May 2008, 4:21 pm
” Pellicano did work in connection with disputes for a range of glitterati, such as entertainment lawyer Bert Fields, head of Paramount Brad Grey, and talent agent Michael Ovitz — though none of those three has been charged with wrongdoing. [read post]
2 May 2007, 5:15 am
This was the case, for example, with the lucrative contract received by Michael Ovitz. [read post]
21 Sep 2022, 4:45 pm by Lawrence Solum
The case addressed a $130 million termination package delivered to former Disney CEO, Michael Ovitz, after fourteen months of underperformance at the company. [read post]