Bruce Tobey has signed a new multiyear agreement continuing as Lionsgate EVP & General Counsel.
Tobey serves on the Company’s Executive Management and Operating Committees and continues to report to CEO Jon Feltheimer as a key member of the studio’s leadership team. As General Counsel, he leads the studio’s legal operations, including transactional matters, litigation, talent negotiations, copyright issues and business partnerships, and he plays a key role in planning and executing a wide range of corporate strategic initiatives.
The renewal caps a year in which Tobey has spearheaded a team preparing for the full separation of Lionsgate and STARZ into standalone publicly-traded companies, helping to oversee an approximately $300 million equity raise, the rollout of new credit facilities strengthening the companies’ respective balance sheets, organizational and governance planning, and the planned collapse of the studio’s two classes of stock into one.
Tobey also played a key role in Lionsgate’s successful integration of eOne following its December 2023 acquisition, and he helped orchestrate the studio’s increased majority equity stake in leading talent management and production company 3 Arts Entertainment. In addition, Tobey oversees Lionsgate’s AI initiatives designed to increase production, marketing and distribution efficiency and provide new tools for filmmakers, including its partnership with Runway.
“Bruce is a trusted adviser and a respected leader in carrying out our strategic initiatives and helping to chart our studio’s continued growth,” said Feltheimer. “We are fortunate to have his insights, expertise and leadership at a critical inflection point in our Company’s evolution.”
After spending 15 years in private practice as a transactional entertainment attorney, Tobey spent five years as a member of the senior management team at Paramount Pictures. He then joined CBS Films as its first employee, building the company into a feature production and distribution organization while overseeing its operations. Before joining Lionsgate three years ago, he served as Partner and Head of the Entertainment, Sports and Media department of O’Melveny & Myers LLP with a practice that focused on transactional entertainment, media and sports matters, film and television, digital media, virtual reality and esports.
