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Bob Tarantino joined Heenan Blaikie’s Entertainment Law group in 2001. He focuses his practice on entertainment and intellectual property law, with an emphasis on film and television production, financing, licensing, distribution, and IP acquisition and protection. His clients range from artists and independent producers to Canadian and foreign studios and financiers at every stage of production, from development to delivery. A past vice-chair of the Executive Committee of the Ontario Bar Association's (OBA) Entertainment, Media and Communications Section, Bob is a visiting Lecturer at the University of Western Ontario Faculty of Law and holds graduate degrees in law from Osgoode Hall and the University of Oxford. Bob has also been recognized as one of Canada’s leading lawyers in the area of entertainment law in the 2010 edition of The Best Lawyers in Canada (Woodward/White). btarantino@heenan.ca
Paul Chodirker is a business lawyer specializing in the areas of entertainment, media and intellectual property. Paul primarily practises in the film, television, computer animation, music, book publishing, and video game industries. He advises his clients in both Canada and the United States on matters related to film and television financing, production and distribution. pchodirker@heenan.ca
