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Adam Hime

Adam Hime

Executive Vice President, Business Affairs, and Deputy General Counsel, at Fifth Season (formerly Endeavor Content)

Adam Hime is Executive Vice President, Business Affairs, and Deputy General Counsel, at Fifth Season (formerly Endeavor Content). Fifth Season is a 21st century global entertainment leader built to adapt to a rapidly changing industry by serving artists, creators and producers first and by empowering creative freedom and ownership. Fifth Season is the studio behind the Emmy-nominated Severance (Apple TV+), as well as the critically acclaimed Nine Perfect Strangers (Hulu), Life and Beth (Hulu), Tokyo Vice (HBO Max) and The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart (Amazon Prime) among others.

At Fifth Season, Hime leads the scripted television business and legal affairs team responsible for the negotiation of studio licenses, co-productions, rights acquisition, writer, producer, director, and talent agreements. Hime also oversees Fifth Season’s business and legal affairs operations in connection with documentary series, music, and live events as well as the intellectual property, and litigation practice group.

In 2022, Hime was recognized as a leading Hollywood dealmaker by Variety Magazine in its Dealmakers Report.  In 2009, Hime was recognized as a Rising Star in the areas of Entertainment and Intellectual Property law by Los Angeles Magazine.

Prior to joining Fifth Season, began his legal career in the litigation department at Irell and Manella LLP, specializing in media and entertainment and spent over 11 years at Viacom Media Networks, serving in a variety of business and legal capacities on over one hundred projects for Comedy Central, BET, MTV, Nickelodeon and other programing services.

In addition to teaching in the MEIM Program, Hime teaches an upper division Television and Digital Media class at the University of Southern California, Gould School of Law, and has served as a frequent lecturer and panelist for the California Bar, Beverly Hills Bar Association, and numerous other professional organizations.

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