Recognition
Variety Names Five Latham Attorneys to 2025 Dealmakers Report
January 5, 2026
Hollywood trade honors Los Angeles Partners Nancy Bruington, Kendall Johnson, Rick Offsay, Liliana Ranger, and Jonathan West for exceptional work in a landmark year that transformed the entertainment landscape.
Hollywood trade publication Variety has recognized Nancy Bruington, Kendall Johnson, Rick Offsay, Liliana Ranger, and Jonathan West in its annual Dealmakers Report, honoring the industry’s leading negotiators shaping entertainment’s most consequential transactions.
The honorees, partners in Latham’s Entertainment, Sports & Media (ESM) Practice, are profiled for steering complex, market-defining deals across film, television, gaming, and content, reflecting the team’s breadth across corporate M&A, financing, IP, and strategic partnerships.
The recognition caps a standout year for the ESM team, including its leadership advising Skydance Media in its merger with Paramount Global to form Paramount Skydance Corp., a transaction lauded by the trades as among Hollywood’s most consequential studio combinations. Latham advised on the landmark take-private of Electronic Arts by Silver Lake, the largest all cash sponsor take-private investment to date, establishing an approximately US$55 billion enterprise value.
Latham’s ESM Practice brings an integrated global platform to advise studios, streamers, independent production companies, financiers, talent-driven enterprises, and investors across the full lifecycle of strategic transactions. Notable matters handled by this year’s honorees span major studio M&A and joint ventures, equity and debt financings, slate and content deals, and strategic investments by growth and private capital.
The Variety Dealmakers recognition continues the practice’s sustained momentum and industry acclaim, including recent honors by The Hollywood Reporter and other leading publications spotlighting Latham’s leadership on transformative entertainment transactions.