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Yorn was listed among The Hollywood Reporter’s Top 100 Entertainment Attorneys in 2013 and 2014, and was named one of Hollywood's top power lawyers in 2015, 2016, and 2018.<ref name="People"/><ref name="Yorn Dynasty, WSJ" /><ref>[[2016 http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/lists/power-lawyers-2016-hollywoods-top-885270/item/power-lawyers-2016-bryan-wolf-885249|2016]]</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/lists/power-lawyers-2018-hollywoods-top-100-attorneys-1097287|title=Power Lawyers 2018: Hollywood's Top 100 Attorneys|website=The Hollywood Reporter}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last1=|first1=|title=Power Lawyers 2015: Hollywood's Top 100 Attorneys Revealed|url=http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/list/power-lawyers-2015-hollywoods-top-789120|work=The Hollywood Reporter|accessdate=June 20, 2018}}</ref><ref name="THR List">{{cite web|title=Power Lawyers: THR Unveils America's Top 100 Entertainment Attorneys|url=http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/lists/kevin-yorn-526511|work=The Hollywood Reporter|accessdate=2014-04-30}}</ref><ref name=THRlist14>{{cite web|title=Power Lawyers 2014: The Complete List A-Z|url=http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr-esq/power-lawyers-2014-complete-list-699971|work=The Hollywood Reporter|accessdate=2014-04-30}}</ref>
Yorn was listed among The Hollywood Reporter’s Top 100 Entertainment Attorneys in 2013 and 2014, and was named one of Hollywood's top power lawyers in 2015, 2016, and 2018.<ref name="People"/><ref name="Yorn Dynasty, WSJ" /><ref>[[2016 http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/lists/power-lawyers-2016-hollywoods-top-885270/item/power-lawyers-2016-bryan-wolf-885249|2016]]</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/lists/power-lawyers-2018-hollywoods-top-100-attorneys-1097287|title=Power Lawyers 2018: Hollywood's Top 100 Attorneys|website=The Hollywood Reporter}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last1=|first1=|title=Power Lawyers 2015: Hollywood's Top 100 Attorneys Revealed|url=http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/list/power-lawyers-2015-hollywoods-top-789120|work=The Hollywood Reporter|accessdate=June 20, 2018}}</ref><ref name="THR List">{{cite web|title=Power Lawyers: THR Unveils America's Top 100 Entertainment Attorneys|url=http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/lists/kevin-yorn-526511|work=The Hollywood Reporter|accessdate=2014-04-30}}</ref><ref name=THRlist14>{{cite web|title=Power Lawyers 2014: The Complete List A-Z|url=http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr-esq/power-lawyers-2014-complete-list-699971|work=The Hollywood Reporter|accessdate=2014-04-30}}</ref>

In 2021, Yorn co-founded private equity investment firm Broadlight Holdings with his brother Rick and David Dorfman.<ref>{{cite web|title=Azimut to get stake in private equity manager BroadLight|url=https://www.pionline.com/money-management/azimut-get-stake-private-equity-manager-broadlight|publisher=PI Online|date=13 April 2022}}</ref> The firm is focused on investments in the global technology and consumer landscape.<ref>{{cite web|title=Azimut Alternative Capital Invests in Broadlight|url=https://www.themiddlemarket.com/latest-news/azimut-alternative-capital-invests-in-broadlight|publisher=The Middle Market|date=19 April 2023}}</ref>


== Personal life ==
== Personal life ==

Revision as of 23:02, 24 April 2023

Kevin Yorn
Kevin Yorn in 1983
Born
Kevin Brett Yorn

(1965-07-04) July 4, 1965 (age 59)
Alma materTulane University
Muhlenberg College
Occupation(s)Founder and Managing Partner at Yorn Barnes Levine Entertainment Law Firm
Board member ofCedars-Sinai Medical Center, Common Sense Media
SpouseJulie Silverman (m. 1996; div. 2005)
Children1[1]
WebsiteIMDB

Kevin Brett Yorn (born July 4, 1965) is an American entertainment attorney who co-founded Yorn Barnes Levine Entertainment Law Firm where he is managing partner.[2]

Early life and education

Yorn is an alumnus of Muhlenberg College in Allentown, PA.[3] He graduated with a Juris Doctor degree from Tulane University Law School. Yorn was admitted to The State Bar of California in 1991.[4] Yorn has collaborated with Tulane University, his alma mater and created funds to promote entertainment and media law at Tulane Law School as well as to support the Gender & Sexuality Studies program in the School of Liberal Arts.[5]

Career

Yorn became a deputy district attorney in L.A. County after graduating from Tulane Law in 1990. He was in the D.A.’s office for five years, working in the Hardcore Gang Investigations Unit.[6]

After the D.A's office, Yorn partnered with Kevin Morris, a lawyer he met through his brother, Rick Yorn. Aspiring writer Anthony Zuiker asked Yorn for help in escaping a screenwriting contract so that he could go on to create the television series CSI.[7]

In 2013, Yorn worked on the deal to renew DeGeneres' talk show through 2016-17.[7]

In the summer of 2014, Yorn's firm made a deal with Hulu for three years of South Park reruns, reportedly at a price of more than $80 million, and he helped Zuiker make content deals with YouTube and Yahoo.[8] Yorn also created a joint venture with Warner Bros., Ellen DigitalVentures, to help take advantage of Ellen DeGeneres’ social media reach, digital video content, games and apps, including Heads Up!.[9]

Yorn was listed among The Hollywood Reporter’s Top 100 Entertainment Attorneys in 2013 and 2014, and was named one of Hollywood's top power lawyers in 2015, 2016, and 2018.[7][8][10][11][12][13][14]

In 2021, Yorn co-founded private equity investment firm Broadlight Holdings with his brother Rick and David Dorfman.[15] The firm is focused on investments in the global technology and consumer landscape.[16]

Personal life

Yorn's brother Pete Yorn is a musician.[17] Yorn's brother, Rick, is a talent manager. The three brothers make up what Nikki Finke calls, "The Yorn Dynasty" [8] The brothers grew up in Montville, New Jersey with their father, Dr. Lawrence Yorn, a dentist who was a captain in the Army, and mother, Joan. Yorn's parents moved to Los Angeles in 2000. Joan Yorn is a receptionist at Kevin Yorn's law firm.[8]

In 1996, he married film producer Julie Silverman in a Jewish ceremony in Tarrytown, New York.[18] They later divorced in 2005.

References

  1. ^ "Samantha Erica Yorn". 19 May 2000.
  2. ^ "Kevin Yorn". Variety. 2013-12-17. Retrieved 2014-04-30.
  3. ^ "Kevin Brett Yorn - #151782". The State Bar Of California. Retrieved 2014-05-01.
  4. ^ "Kevin Brett Yorn #151782 - Attorney Search". members.calbar.ca.gov. Retrieved 2019-06-20.
  5. ^ "Kevin Yorn (L '90) teams with Tulane on entertainment/media law". Tulane University. April 13, 2017.
  6. ^ Tannenbaum, Rob. "Hollywood Dynasty: The Yorn Brothers". Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 6 Oct 2014.
  7. ^ a b c "What to Know About Scarlett Johansson's Power-Player Date Kevin Yorn". People. June 21, 2017.
  8. ^ a b c d Tannenbaum, Rob. "Hollywood Dynasty: The Yorn Brothers". Wall Street Journal. WSJ. Retrieved 8 October 2014.
  9. ^ "The Variety Legal Impact Report 2015". Variety. Retrieved 4 May 2015.
  10. ^ 2016
  11. ^ "Power Lawyers 2018: Hollywood's Top 100 Attorneys". The Hollywood Reporter.
  12. ^ "Power Lawyers 2015: Hollywood's Top 100 Attorneys Revealed". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved June 20, 2018.
  13. ^ "Power Lawyers: THR Unveils America's Top 100 Entertainment Attorneys". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 2014-04-30.
  14. ^ "Power Lawyers 2014: The Complete List A-Z". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 2014-04-30.
  15. ^ "Azimut to get stake in private equity manager BroadLight". PI Online. 13 April 2022.
  16. ^ "Azimut Alternative Capital Invests in Broadlight". The Middle Market. 19 April 2023.
  17. ^ "Pete Yorn, Official Site". Pete Yorn. Retrieved 2014-04-30.
  18. ^ New York Times: "WEDDINGS;Julie Silverman And Kevin Yorn" July 7, 1996
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