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David Boies' Film Venture Sues over <i>Jane</i> Financing

By Meghan Tribe
April 02, 2017

The Boies/Schiller Film Group (BSFG), a film finance venture founded by renowned litigator David Boies and Zachary Schiller, a son of Boies Schiller Flexner co-founder and managing partner Jonathan Schiller, has filed suit against investor Peter Nathaniel and his Boca Raton, FL-based investment fund Impala Partners LLC. Boies/Schiller Film Group v. Impala Partners LLC, 502017CA002867.

The lawsuit in Palm Beach County Circuit Court accuses Nathaniel and Impala of misrepresentations that resulted in BSFG losing millions in its production of Jane Got a Gun, a 2016 film starring Natalie Portman that received middling reviews and underwhelmed at the box office.

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