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...