Terrence "Terry" L. Dugan

Terry represents some of the most active agent banks in syndicated financings in the motion picture and music finance space, private equity debt and acquisition funds, and a number of other investors in the motion picture and music sectors. He also advises clients on US and international finance, project finance, syndicated bank lending, institutional lending, workouts, and mergers and acquisitions in other sectors. Terry’s extensive experience includes complex multijurisdictional financings and structured finance.

Representative Experience

Team member experience prior to joining Moore & Van Allen

• Represented agent bank and lead lender in a US$600 million production loan facility for a motion picture studio.
• Represented agent bank and lead lender in a US$300 million term and revolving credit facility for a film and television distributor.
• Represented agent bank and lead lender in a US$75 million revolving credit facility for a music performing rights organization.
• Represented agent bank and lead lender in a US$260 million syndicated multicurrency senior secured bank credit facility and intercreditor agreement for companion public note transaction. Borrower was a motion picture production company.
• Represented agent bank and lead lender in a US$750 million syndicated senior secured credit facility for a music publisher and owner of record labels.
• Represented agent bank and lead lender in a distressed US$325 million syndicated senior secured credit facility for a US-European motion picture production company and the ensuing foreign insolvency.
• Represented agent bank and lead lender in a US$550 million term loan and revolving credit facility to a music publisher.
• Represented agent bank and lead lender in a US$185 million syndicated senior secured revolving credit facility to purchase movie rights from a motion picture production company in bankruptcy.
• Represented a private equity firm in a variety of bids and completed acquisition of motion picture and television assets.
• Represented a specialist private equity fund in multiple acquisitions of libraries of music copyrights in the US and abroad.
• Represented a private equity debt fund in multiple music financings.
• Represented music rights owners in multiple music securitizations.

Notable

• Named to Variety’s Music Legal Elite Report, 2024
• Named to Top Music Lawyers List by Billboard, 2023-2025
• Recommended by The Legal 500 US for Media and Entertainment: Transactional, 2022-2024

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Affiliations

• New York City Bar Association, Entertainment Law Committee; Committee Chair, 2022-2025 term
• New York City Bar Association, Presidential Task Force on Artificial Intelligence and Digital Technologies; Co-Chair, Metaverse Subcommittee