Nicole White

About Nicole White

Nicole White is a visionary leader and coach blending strategy, soul, and science to…

Experience

1. President and Founder

   North Star Incentives

   Jan 2016 — Present

   North Star Incentives is a boutique business specializing in motion picture production incentives. We create the most value for producers through maximizing and monetizing production incentives.PRODUCTION INCENTIVE COMPLIANCE – provide planning advice to clients to maximize domestic and foreign production incentives.Complete applications and ensure compliance with the production incentives programs.Support the audit process, and advocate for the most optimum production incentive possible.Review production budgets to estimate the production incentive amount and then issue opinion to producers and/or financiers.Review GL\'s throughout each stage of production to ensure all qualified expenses have been properly identified, that the actual production incentive calculated meets the expectations of the producers and financiers, and that the incentive requirements (e.g, thresholds) are being met.TAX CREDIT PLACEMENT – North Star Incentives has a wide net of producers as well as corporate and high net-worth individual buyers to enable a purchase and sale of transferable tax credits.PRODUCTION INCENTIVE FINANCE – North Star Incentives has partnered with the most prestigious financiers in the entertainment industry to help monetize your incentives before, during or after you start production.BUSINESS AFFAIRSAdvise on how best to structure and set up international co-productions in order to maximise local production incentives while protecting the creative integrity of the projectAdvise on how best to expand your business and establish yourself in local emerging territories (China, Brazil, Korea) or established/subsidy rich local territories (France, UK, Germany)Advise on negotiations at all levels of production (chain of title, development deals, director’s deals, talent deals, …), finance (co-finance agreement, bank closing) and distribution process (acquisitions, negative pick up) as well as with any slate funding deals, or co-production agreements.

Education

• Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University

  JD

  2001 — 2005

• Pace University - Lubin School of Business

  MBA, Public Accounting

Skills

• Intellectual Property
• Mergers & Acquisitions
• Entertainment Law
• Film
• Video Production
• Entertainment
• Digital Media
• Microsoft Office
• Production Management
• Corporate Tax
• Film Production
• Accounting
• Sarbanes-Oxley Act
• Microsoft Excel
• Financial Reporting
• Television
• Sec Filings
• Feature Films
• Film Finance