Exclusive: Veteran talent agent Eddy Yablans is leaving CAA to join Rick Yorn’s management company Lbi Entertainment as a partner. Yablans, whose agenting career spans 35 years at ICM and CAA, will start his new job on Jan. 1 and will be based in Los Angeles and New York. Many of his existing clients are expected to remain with him in his role as a manager.

At CAA, Yablans represented such performers as Chris Rock, Ellen DeGeneres, Jeff Daniels, Gabriel Macht, Leslie Bibb, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Gretchen Mol, Janelle James, Jim Belushi, Jared Harris, Ian McShane, Patrick J Adams, and James Austin Johnson, the majority of whom he also had repped at ICM as many of his clients have been with him for 25-30 years.

“I am thrilled to be joining Rick and everyone at Lbi,” Yablans said. “They are the best at what they do, and I’m so excited...