Art & Entertainment Law Group of LeBlanc & Associates, PLC is a Louisiana full-service entertainment law firm that provides business and legal affairs and production counsel services, facilitates tax credit pre-sales, and structures soft-dollar film financing through tax credits and other incentives of the Louisiana Motion Picture Incentive Act.

The Firm's practice includes primarily film, television, Louisiana film certifications, and tax credit maximization. Clients include studios, networks, independent production companies and filmmakers. The Firm's One Stop Producer Shop™ offers outsourced Louisiana Business & Legal Affairs providing the benefits of an in-house department plus all the legal services in Louisiana, a Civil Law State, but without the employee cost.

Louisiana Tax Credits:

The Firm represents clients during any or all phases of a film or television project, from the initial legal company and financial structure to state pre-certification to final certification for Louisiana Motion Picture Incentive Act tax credits. Don’t leave money on the table by using unnecessary middleman or tax credit brokers.  AELGLA facilitates tax credit sales and transfers and assists in tax credit monetization transactional work, allowing producers to keep lucrative tax credit broker commissions.

Current state law provides production tax credits of up to 15% on actual investment (i.e., budget) for certain previously certified productions, or up to 25% on base investment (i.e., Louisiana spend) of state-certified productions, plus relevant employment credits on Louisiana resident payroll.  All tax credits are subject to state review of production accounting, audit and legal and financial documentation.

Legislative Incentives Consulting Services:

AELGLA provides consulting services on research, structure, implementation and marketing of film and television tax credits and other production incentives. AELGLA has been contacted relative to production incentives in several U.S. states and foreign countries.  AELGLA works with officials in the public sector, on a local, parish/county and state level, as well as quasi-governmental agencies such as chambers of commerce, economic development departments and film commissions. The firm also consults with individuals and companies relative to entertainment industry incentives.

Production Counsel Services:

AELGLA Senior Counsel offer over years of executive studio/network/production business and legal affairs experience in Los Angeles, New York and Europe on feature films, made-for-television movies, television pilots, series, reality programs, animation and more. Senior Counsel experience includes the structure, finance, and packaging of film and television productions and international co-productions, and serving as production counsel for past or present projects in the US, Canada, France, UK, Ireland, Germany, Czech Republic, China, and New Zealand, among other countries. The Firm's knowledge of location shooting facilitates identifying and resolving production legal issues on and off set in Louisiana to maximize budgetary efficiency.