BURT MARCUS

Burton Marcus represented Seven Arts in the acquisition of Warner Bros. Pictures and that company's acquisition of Atlantic Records,.

In the seventies he was one of three executives brought in to turn around Columbia Pictures Industries, which had been experiencing severe financial difficulties. As Vice President & General Counsel, Burt was responsible for financing the film production program, the disposition and acquisition of business segments, and directing all legal affairs of the corporation which included managing a forty lawyer legal department on both coasts and law firms in New York, Los Angeles, and London. The turnaround was successful.

Subsequently, he served as Managing Director and Executive Vice President of Veronis Suhler & Associates, Inc., an investment banking firm specializing in the media segments of the communications industry, and then as an owner, Director, and Executive Vice President of John Blair Communications, which sold the national advertising time inventory of approximately 150 broadcast television stations in the United States (approximately $750 million annually in advertising sales), and produced and distributed syndicated television programming.

Mr. Marcus holds a Bachelor's degree from Brown University, and J.D. and LL.M. degrees from the law schools of Harvard, and New York Universities respectively.