Candisse (Collins) Williamson is a creative dealmaker and accomplished entertainment attorney with deep experience across entertainment, media, and corporate transactions. She has built legal departments from the ground up and is known as a trusted strategic partner to founders, talent, and executive teams.

Candisse recently joined Prodigious Advisors, an operating partner to high growth companies and category defining brands, as a Partner. Before joining Prodigious, she served as General Counsel of Hartbeat, Kevin Hart's media and entertainment company, where she built the legal department from the ground up.  During her four years at Hartbeat, Candisse led dealmaking across film, TV, audio, live events, and branded content, and oversaw the company's strategic transactions, corporate governance, and operational legal infrastructure. She also served as Corporate Secretary, managing board relations, and was a trusted leader on the executive team.

Previously, Candisse was General Counsel of Skybound Entertainment, an IP-focused company co-founded by Robert Kirkman, creator of The Walking Dead and Invincible. During her four-year tenure, she established the legal department and, with IP creation and protection at the core of the business, oversaw transactions across film, TV, gaming, literary and merchandise. As Corporate Secretary, she also directed the company's corporate and governance matters.

Before joining Skybound, Candisse spent five years at The Madison Square Garden Company where, in her last role as VP, Business & Legal Affairs, she was the lead attorney for the Christmas Spectacular Starring the Rockettes and other live productions at Radio City Music Hall.

Candisse began her career as a corporate associate, handling a wide array of M&A and private equity transactions in the New York office of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison and in the Atlanta and New York offices of King & Spalding LLP.

Candisse received her JD from Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law and her B.S. in Business Administration, Marketing from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. After many years living on both coasts, she is back in her hometown of Chicago with her husband and two sons. She maintains that Chicago is the most efficient place from which to fly to either one.