Founder Profiles
Christopher Kikis | Thoma Kikis | Nicholas Levis | Cherise Wolas | Alan Zelenetz
Cherise Wolas 
Ms. Wolas is uniquely qualified in the fields of both law and film. Licensed to practice law in both New York and California, Ms. Wolas has worked at major national and international firms, in Los Angeles at White & Case and Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP, and in New York at Kaye Scholer LLP and Loeb and Loeb LLP. Her legal career includes three years of general corporate practice, representing both start-up and established companies in connection with such clients’ general corporate work, mergers and acquisitions, capital finance and other specialized transactions. Prior to that, for ten years Ms. Wolas practiced corporate reorganization law, representing a wide variety of corporate clients through the complicated chapter 11 process.
Before becoming a lawyer, Ms. Wolas was a development executive and story editor for film companies in New York and Los Angeles. In addition to her film development experience, Ms. Wolas also worked as an independent literary agent, focused on discovering emerging writing talent.
Ms. Wolas received her law degree, cum laude, from Loyola Law School, where she was inducted as a member of the Order of the Coif, a Dean’s List Honors student, and Editor-in-Chief of the Loyola Entertainment Law Journal. Ms. Wolas graduated with a BFA in film from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, where she wrote, directed and produced a variety of student films.
Ms. Wolas has written numerous short stories, has completed her first novel and started work on her second. She is also the co-author of “Toysmart, Safe Harbors and the FTC’s About-Face: A Roundup of Privacy Developments,” Alley Way (September 2000), and the author of “Is the Debtor Left Standing When the Music Stops: Assumption and Rejection of Executory Recording Contracts by Insolvent Musicians,” 9 Loy. L.A. Ent. L.J. 259 (vol. 2. 1989).
