Nicole Compas

As production counsel, Nicole Compas leverages her dealmaker skills for clients working on multiple platforms on the East and West coasts. Her credits over the past decade span more than 100 independent films and TV series, new media, documentaries and music, including “High Maintenance,” “Wild, Wild Country,” “All Day and a Night,” “Ben Is Back,” “Wig,” “Wanda Sykes: Not Normal,” “Tiffany Haddish presents They Ready” and “Beasts of the Southern Wild,” the winner of a Sundance Film Festival Grandy Jury Prize.

Nicole brings her native New Yorker’s touch to Ramo Law PC’s bicoastal representation of indie productions, writers, comedians, producers, directors and actors. She represents numerous clients in projects with Netflix and HBO such as Imagine Documentaries and Push It Productions.

Nicole began and grew her entertainment law career at Gray Krauss Sandler Des Rochers, LLP in New York City, where she was a partner. She advises clients on all aspects of development, financing, production and distribution.

Capabilities

• Development deal negotiations
• Distribution agreements
• Film and TV production financing
• Production legal for producers, productions and other clients

Select Projects and Deals

• “On the Count of Three,” upcoming
• “Chick Fight,” November 2020
• “The Rental,” 2020
• “Wig,” 2019
• “Light of My Life,” 2019
• “Alex Strangelove,” 2019
• “Ben Is Back,” 2018
• “All Day and a Night,” 2018
• “Art of Style,” 2018
• “Wyatt Cenac’s Problem Areas,” 2018
• “Beasts of the Southern Wild,” 2012
• “Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel,” 2011
• “Machete,” 2010

TV

• HBO’s “High Maintenance,” 2016-present
• “Disney Family Sundays,” 2019-present
• “Wild, Wild Country,” 2018

Standup Specials

• “Wanda Sykes: Not Normal”
• “Tiffany Haddish Presents: They Ready”
• “Tiffany Haddish: Black Mitzvah”
• “Lil Rel Howery Live in Crenshaw”
• “Dan Soder: Son of a Gary”
• “Fortune Feimster: Sweet and Salty”

Bar Admissions

• New York State Bar

Education

J.D., Touro College Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center, cum laude

• Touro Law Review
• Clinical intern for Honorable Peter Skelos of the Appellate Division of
  New York, Second Judicial Department

B.A., New York University