Adam Hime
Lecturer in Law
Last Updated: January 26, 2024
Adam Hime ’04 is Senior Vice President and Associate General Counsel, Business Affairs at Fifth Season (formerly Endeavor Content). At Fifth Season, Hime oversees 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 annual 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 Endeavor Content, Adam 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, MTV, Nickelodeon and other channels.
Hime began his legal career in the litigation department at Irell and Manella LLP, specializing in media and entertainment.
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.
