Attorney Peter Hurwitz has been hired as general counsel at TheWeinstein Company (TWC).

Hurwitz will be based in New York and will assume a broad range oflegal affairs including new business acquisitions, joint ventures andintellectual property matters for TWC and Dimension Films.

He will report to Charles Layton, executive vice president officeof Bob and Harvey Weinstein, and to the Weinsteins.

Prior to TWC Hurwitz served four years as chief administrativeofficer for merchant banker BMO Financial Group where he also worked veryclosely in media and communications investing.

Before BMO, Hurwitz spent seven years as general counsel and aprincipal at Chatterjee Group while it was affiliated with Soros FundManagement. Prior to that, he held posts at the international law firms ofPaul, Weiss, and Milbank, Tweed.