{"id":2188674,"date":"2025-12-05T22:35:22","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T22:35:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2188674"},"modified":"2025-12-05T22:35:22","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T22:35:22","slug":"ex-warner-bros-vp-joins-sacker-entertainment-law-opens-nyc-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/ex-warner-bros-vp-joins-sacker-entertainment-law-opens-nyc-office\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Warner Bros VP Joins Sacker Entertainment Law; Opens NYC Office"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t<strong>EXCLUSIVE: <\/strong><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/netflix\/\" id=\"auto-tag_netflix\" data-tag=\"netflix\">Netflix<\/a>\u2019s proposed $82 billion purchase of <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/warner-bros\/\" id=\"auto-tag_warner-bros\" data-tag=\"warner-bros\">Warner Bros<\/a> crown jewels may be<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2025\/12\/netflix-warner-bros-discovery-deal-official-1236637290\/\"> all the town is talking about today<\/a>. However, over at Sacker Entertainment Law, it\u2019s more a case of getting the band back together.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe WB band.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tAlmost four years after ex-WB Senior Theatrical Counsel and Manatt, Phelps &amp; Phillips, LLP partner Neil Sacker<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2022\/01\/miramax-neil-sacker-entertainment-law-firm-founded-andy-tan-1234912630\/\"> set up his own shingle <\/a>with former Gibson, Dunn &amp; Crutcher LLP associate Andy Tan, their SEL has now added Kirk Stambler to the crew.<\/p>\n<div class=\"post-content-image \/\/  \">\n<figure class=\"o-figure   size-large alignnone lrv-u-max-width-100p\" style=\"width:100%; max-width:1024px;\">\n<div class=\"c-lazy-image  \">\n<div class=\"lrv-a-crop-16x9\" style=\"padding-bottom:calc((577\/1024)*100%);\">\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p><\/div><\/div><figcaption class=\"c-figcaption  lrv-u-font-size-12 lrv-u-padding-tb-025\">\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\" lrv-u-font-size-16 lrv-u-font-size-14@mobile-max lrv-a-font-body-m u-font-style-italic lrv-u-font-weight-bold lrv-u-font-family-primary u-line-height-20 u-letter-spacing-0 u-line-height-18@mobile-max\">(L-R) Neil Sackler &amp; Kirk Stambler<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<cite class=\" lrv-u-text-transform-uppercase lrv-u-color-grey lrv-u-font-size-10 lrv-a-font-basic-xxs lrv-u-margin-l-025\">Sackler Entertainment Law<\/cite><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tStambler, who served as WB\u2019s Vice President, Special Projects, Business and Acquisitions for years, will join Sacker Entertainment Law and run the firm\u2019s newly created corporate entertainment deals practice, I\u2019ve learned. To that, Sacker will be opening a NYC office that Stambler will oversee.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t\u201cTraditional law firms expect clients to adapt their businesses to fit within their structured systems,\u201d Sacker asserted Friday. \u201cWe do the opposite.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tWe customize our business to the specific needs and goals of each client\u201d Sacker stated \u201cEvery engagement is tailored to the client\u2019s business \u2013 from how we structure and design our legal services and fees to how we consult and advise them to execute their business plans and grow their businesses.\u00a0 We approach legal representation as a partnership, not as a traditional service provider.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t\u201cThe launch of our corporate entertainment practice\u00a0allows us to extend that same customized, cost effect business model to an even broader range of clients who have larger entertainment transactions \u2013 and we\u2019re excited to have Kirk lead that charge.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t\u201cIt is great to be working with Neil, whom I have known and respected for many years,\u201d Stambler told Deadline on this day when WB is all over the news even more than a Minecraft or Sinners premiere.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t\u201cAfter overlapping briefly at Paul Weiss, we got to know each other at Warner Bros. and have remained friends and colleagues ever since,\u201d the veteran attorney added. \u201cI am committed to helping Neil take the firm to the next level and accelerate its growth by expanding the scope of services and expertise it can offer.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tAs well as his legal endeavors Stambler has a hand in production too. Specifically, he is working on a <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/jimi-hendrix\/\" id=\"auto-tag_jimi-hendrix\" data-tag=\"jimi-hendrix\">Jimi Hendrix<\/a> documentary <em>Are You Experienced <\/em>with WildBear Entertainment and AJ Eaton, as well as still untitled Alice Waters documentary.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tSince its formation in early 2022, SEL has grown from the duo of Sacker and Tan to seven attorneys and now eight with Stanbler, with more to come on both coasts<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source deadline.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EXCLUSIVE: Netflix\u2019s proposed $82 billion purchase of Warner Bros crown jewels may be all the town is talking about today. However, over at Sacker Entertainment Law, it\u2019s more a case of getting the band back together. The WB band. Almost four years after ex-WB Senior Theatrical Counsel and Manatt, Phelps &amp; Phillips, LLP partner Neil [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2188675,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[374826,23191,422391,306876],"class_list":["post-2188674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-jimi-hendrix","tag-netflix","tag-netflix-wb","tag-warner-bros"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Ex-Warner-Bros-VP-Joins-Sacker-Entertainment-Law-Opens-NYC-Office.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2188674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2188674"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2188674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2188676,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2188674\/revisions\/2188676"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2188675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2188674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2188674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2188674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}