Nancy A. Bruington

nancy.bruington@lw.com

+1.424.653.5544

"Knows her area inside and out and ensures we're thinking practically about the implications of every section of our business."

Chambers USA 2024

"A standout in the entertainment area. She has significant experience, understands the bar and has specialized expertise."

Chambers USA 2024

"She is a strong advocate and someone who can provide realistic counsel. I think she is exceptional and you get real value."

Chambers USA 2024

Leading Lawyer – Media & Entertainment: Transactional

The Legal 500 US 2018-2024

"One of the best financing lawyers I’ve ever had the pleasure of working with…exceptionally knowledgeable at complicated media collateral and securitizing atypical streams of revenue."

The Legal 500 US 2023

"Nancy is very commercial, clear, to the point and easy to work with. She has incredible expertise in the financing space."

Chambers USA 2023

"Super intelligent and very experienced."

Chambers USA 2020

Notable Practitioner – Media & Entertainment: Transactional

Chambers USA 2019-2024

Legal Impact Report

Variety 2020-2023

Power Lawyers

The Hollywood Reporter 2018-2022

Profile

Nancy Bruington is a partner in the firm’s Finance Department and Entertainment, Sports & Media Practice.

Nancy advises clients on entertainment, sports, and media finance. She represents studios, production companies, equity sponsors, mezzanine investors, and financial institutions in motion picture, television, and digital content financing, and co-financing transactions, corporate finance transactions, financing of music assets, and the formation and capitalization of entertainment companies.

She also represents financial institutions, team owners, and teams in sports lending and acquisition financing transactions.

Nancy was recognized as a leading practitioner in Media & Entertainment: Transactional law by Chambers USA (2019-2025).

In addition to her entertainment, sports, and media work, Nancy has a broad corporate finance background. She has represented lenders, borrowers, and equity sponsors in leveraged financings for acquisitions, recapitalizations, and going-private transactions. She has advised underwriters, initial purchasers, and issuers in public and private debt and equity offerings for a range of industries.

Experience

Nancy's experience includes representing:

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in a wide range of corporate financing transactions, including its US$1.7 billion revolving credit facility, US$400 million term loan B, and second lien term loan
STX Entertainment in its formation and capitalization, including its senior secured and mezzanine credit facilities
A24 in its senior secured revolving credit facility and various financing matters
Anonymous Content in various financing transactions
Miramax in its senior secured revolving credit facility and various financing matters
Alcon Entertainment in senior and mezzanine financings and motion picture co-financing transactions
Revolution Studios in various financing transactions
Content Partners in various financing transactions, including production financing for the television series CSI: Cyber
Open Road Films in its formation and capitalization, including its senior secured revolving credit facility
Participant Media in various financing matters
Amblin Partners in its senior secured revolving credit facility
The ownership group led by Robert Pera in its acquisition of the Memphis Grizzlies basketball team*
The Silverstein family in its acquisition of ownership interests in the Houston Dynamo soccer club and related assets
Multiple top tier investment and commercial banks as the administrative agent in connection with:
- Senior secured revolving credit facilities for producers of film, television, and digital content, including for a global digital media company
- A senior secured revolving credit facility for a major studio co-financing partner
- A senior secured cash-flow based credit facility to a talent agency
- A credit facility for a professional sports league
- A multi-picture production financing facility for a motion picture studio
Private equity funds and other strategic and financial investors in:
- Mezzanine and equity investments in a studio co-financing partner and related studio production, financing, and distribution arrangement
- A series of structured financing transactions to securitize catalog of media assets owned by a portfolio company*
- A series of single-picture motion picture financing transactions*
- Multi-picture cross-border structured financing transaction to finance production of a slate of motion pictures by a portfolio company*
UBS, Bank of America, Goldman Sachs, Citibank, and other lending clients as administrative agent in senior, mezzanine, first lien-second lien, and other leveraged financing transactions for a wide range of industries*