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YOUR PROFESSIONAL TEAM

To create your company, you will need to work with several different types of professionals to get your business up and running: attorneys, accountants, and insurance brokers.

ATTORNEYS

One of the first things you should do is to establish a relationship with a good entertainment attorney, preferably one with experience setting up businesses.

Although forming a company is not brain surgery, creating the company’s internal documents can be tricky and is a task better left for your attorney. After all, you should be worrying about developing a screenplay, not how to draft the operating agreement provision on tax treatment of membership interests. It is important to bring in your attorney early on in the process of establishing ...

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