DLA Piper is pleased to announce Los Angeles-based partner Afshin Beyzaee has been selected for the 12th annual Variety Dealmaker Impact Report, which highlights the people behind the "most important entertainment deals of the past 12 months."

Editors noted that Beyzaee is "at the epicenter of Hollywood business manager consolidation." Variety also highlighted some of Beyzaee's notable clients, including NKSFB, David Weise and Associates, Altman Greenfield and Selvaggi, along with talent agency APA, the production company behind "South Park" and other law firms "tapping his tax and corporate expertise."

Beyzaee brings together a deep understanding of both corporate and tax issues to provide his clients with holistic solutions to their business and transactional needs. Clients regularly look to him for his innovative and creative approaches to overcoming structural roadblocks and his understanding of the corporate, tax and business issues they confront. His clients have included publicly traded and privately held corporations, S corporations, partnerships, business trusts, limited liability companies, professional services firms, private equity and real estate funds, real estate developers, financial institutions and trade associations.

DLA Piper's market-leading international team of media, sport and entertainment lawyers, located throughout the Americas, Asia Pacific, Europe, Africa and the Middle East, advise on finance, borrowing, investment and corporate issues, production and rights acquisitions, exploiting media rights, staging and exploiting live sports and other events, intellectual property protection and enforcement, regulatory and administrative issues, antitrust and competition law, stadium and arena development and on the resolution of disputes.