Adam Hime ’04 is Executive Vice President, Business Affairs, and Deputy General Counsel, at Fifth Season (formerly Endeavor Content).  Fifth Season is a 21st century global entertainment leader built to adapt to a rapidly changing industry by serving artists, creators and producers first and by empowering creative freedom and ownership. Fifth Season is the studio behind the Emmy-nominated project Severance (Apple TV+), as well as the critically acclaimed Nine Perfect Strangers (Hulu), Life and Beth (Hulu), Tokyo Vice (HBO Max) and The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart (Amazon Prime) among others.

At Fifth Season, Hime leads the scripted television business and legal affairs team responsible for the negotiation of studio licenses, co-productions, rights acquisition, writer, producer, director, and talent agreements. Hime also oversees Fifth Season’s business and legal affairs operations in connection with documentary series, music, and live events as well as the intellectual property, and litigation practice group.

In 2022, Hime was recognized as a leading Hollywood dealmaker by Variety Magazine in its Dealmakers Report.  In 2009, Hime was recognized as a Rising Star in the areas of Entertainment and Intellectual Property law by Los Angeles Magazine.

Prior to joining Fifth Season, Hime began his legal career in the litigation department at Irell and Manella LLP, specializing in media and entertainment and spent over 11 years at Viacom Media Networks, serving in a variety of business and legal capacities on over one hundred projects for Comedy Central, BET, MTV, Nickelodeon and other programing services.

Hime joined USC Gould School of Law as a lecturer in law in 2017, and also serves as an adjunct professor of Television and Digital Media, Business and Legal Affairs, and Intellectual Property in Carnegie Mellon’s Masters in Entertainment Industry Management program.

Hime earned his JD, Order of the Coif, from USC Gould, where he received the Hon. Warren J. Ferguson Award and was an editor of the Southern California Law Review.