Christopher Tricarico is a founding partner of Tricarico Chavez LLP. Mr. Tricarico concentrates his practice in the entertainment and media industry. He represents individual and institutional clients in various transactions in connection with all aspects of the development, production, financing, and distribution of motion pictures, television programming, music videos, video games, music, animation, publishing and other entertainment content. Mr. Tricarico’s knowledge of both the legal and business aspects of the entertainment industry allows him to provide clients with specialized services, including risk assessments on copyright and other intellectual property matters, complex clearance/rights issues and chain-of-title problems, financing and distribution arrangements, and employment and guild matters. Mr. Tricarico counsels on, structures and negotiates numerous types of agreements, including agreements for the option and acquisition of intellectual property rights split-rights, joint venture and co-production agreements license, distribution, development and production agreements single-picture and multi-picture financing agreements film library acquisition agreements agreements relating to equity investments in production companies and profit participations first-look agreements publishing agreements merchandising arrangements promotion and endorsement agreements and executive employment agreements. Mr. Tricarico's clients range from independent production companies, producers, writers, rights holders to financiers, and include Anonymous Content, The Estate Of Philip K. Dick, The Salomonsson Agency, Yellow Bird Productions, Hollywood Gang, Toei Animation Studios, The Zorro Estate, Scott Free Productions and Wondros. Mr. Tricarico received a bachelor of arts degree in English and Journalism from the University of Southern California in 1987, a masters degree in Journalism from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism in 1990, and his law degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 1991. He is admitted to practice in California and a member of the State Bar of California. Mr. Tricarico has been an arbitrator and member of the Independent Film & Television Alliance, and has written extensively about licensing, merchandising and music issues and the law. Mr. Tricarico also serves as the legal advisor to the Sundance Institute and Film Independent, is a member of the Producers Guild Of America and serves on the PGA independent film advisory committee. Mr. Tricarico is also an Emmy-nominated producer.