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In all of the exorbitant fallout from Michael Kassan’s exit from UTA earlier this month even the lawyers are getting shrapnel now. Following a Deadline article of March 25 in which the agency ...
Kassan’s lawyer Sanford Michelman told TheWrap: “Michael resigned on March 6 and elected not to take the $10 million non-compete from UTA. They then freaked out and made these claims to attack ...
“Michael Kassan was terminated by UTA on March 7 and made aware well before that UTA had grounds to fire him,” said counsel to UTA Bryan Freedman. “His claim against UTA has no merit and is ...
In all of the exorbitant fallout from Michael Kassan’s exit from UTA earlier this month even the lawyers are getting shrapnel now. Following a Deadline article of March 25 in which the agency ...
MediaLink founder Michael Kassan sues UTA attorney for defamation amid heated legal battle Michael Kassan, chairman and chief executive of Media Link LLC, attends the 2023 CES event in Las Vegas ...
Wren compared Kassan to Lew Wasserman, the legendary studio head and talent agent. “What Lew Wasserman was to the talent business, Michael is to the media consultancy business,” he said.
The feud between Michael Kassan and UTA over the MediaLink founder’s departure is intensifying, with Kassan suing the agency’s lawyer for defamation. Kassan, in a lawsuit filed in Los Angeles ...
UTA Amends Michael Kassan Lawsuit: Most Claims Move to Arbitration But Agency Doubles Down on Financial ‘Misconduct’ Accusations After UTA threatened with legal sanctions, Kassan blasts what ...
Kassan sold his company, MediaLink, to UTA in 2021 for $125 million, and stayed on as a partner. The relationship collapsed in early March, as Kassan and UTA filed competing claims accusing each ...
United Talent Agency has amended its lawsuit against former MediaLink chief Michael Kassan — striking its initial claims against its former partner to move those grievances to arbitration. The ...
Kassan's MediaLink is a media and marketing consultancy that's best known for connecting ad and media execs. It also faces a succession question, with 73-year-old Kassan having no obvious replacement.
Michael Kassan tells In Touch, “Ages ago when I was a young entrepreneur in the 1990’s, before I ever created MediaLink, I exercised a business judgment that as I’ve stated publicly many ...