Yemi Adegbonmire
General Counsel | Corporate Media Executive | Risk Management Expert | Nonprofit Steward | JD | MHS
- Role
- Vice President Legal & Associate General Counsel at Cineverse
- Location
- Los Angeles, CA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Yemi Adegbonmire
Yemi Adegbonmire is a Los Angeles-based technology and entertainment attorney. In addition to her work in scripted and unscripted television, distribution, and digital media, Yemi is a civil rights advocate and former U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Public Health Analyst. A deep believer in the power of human capital, she has initiated or supported business-driven employee resource groups at every organization for which she has worked. Prior to joining The Bail Project as its first General Counsel, Ms. Adegbonmire developed a practice focused on structuring and negotiating agreements for cable distribution, consumer product licensing, viral marketing, digital content production, product acquisition, music publishing, international film, and prime-time television distribution for a range of companies from Fortune 100 to start-up ventures. Ms. Adegbonmire was a tech and advertising lawyer The Walt Disney Company where she was a legal executive responsible for the legal affairs of Maker Studios, SOAPnet.com and over a dozen prime-time shows airing on the ABC Television Network. She is a 2021 chartering member of The West Africa Alumnae Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Incorporated.
Experience
Vice President Legal & Associate General Counsel
Oct 2023 — Present · Los Angeles, CA, US
Provides strategic counsel to executive leadership while overseeing the operational aspects of the Cineverse Legal Department.
Education
The Johns Hopkins University
Master of Public Health Sciences (MHS), Public Health
Wake Forest University
Bachelor of Arts (BA), English, Sociology, Women Studies
Wake Forest University School of Law
Doctor of Law (JD), Intellectual Property Law
Skills
- Cable Television
- Broadcast
- Intellectual Property
- New Media
- Film
- Video Production
- Television
- Entertainment
- Film Production
- Entertainment Law
- Digital Media
- Copyright Law
- Contract Negotiation
- Publicity
- Social Media Marketing
- Licensing Negotiations
- Broadcast Television
- Licensing
- Legal Writing
- Strategy
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