Partner Ivy Kagan Bierman Honored in 2024 Edition of Variety500

Loeb & Loeb is pleased to announce that Entertainment Labor Chair Ivy Kagan Bierman has been recognized by Variety in its 2024 edition of Variety500, an annual index of the 500 most influential business leaders shaping the global media industry. Now in its eighth year, this marks Ivy's third consecutive inclusion in the list, having also been honored in its inaugural edition in 2017.

In an accompanying profile, Ivy is lauded for assisting clients during the 2023 WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes, including helping independent companies obtain interim agreements to continue production. She is noted for remaining “wrapped up in negotiating deals and plans that were disrupted by the work stoppages, among other issues,” throughout 2024, as well as helping “studios and indie animation firms grapple with the latest round of contract negotiations with the Animation Guild and the guild’s push to organize production workers on animated TV series.”

In addition, Variety highlights Ivy's dedication to addressing issues related to AI, especially in regard to creative guilds' positions on the technology, such as working “to help foster ties between AI firms and Hollywood’s unions and guilds.”

To view Ivy’s Variety500 profile, please visit Variety’s website.