Editing ICM Partners (section)

=== Formation and growth ===
'''International Creative Management''' was formed in 1975 through the merger of [[Marvin Josephson]]'s [[International Famous Agency]] and [[Freddie Fields]]' [[Creative Management Associates]] (CMA).<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/31/arts/television/marvin-josephson-dead.html|title=Marvin Josephson, Who Scored Big Deals for Stars, Dies at 95|first=Neil|last=Genzlinger|newspaper=The New York Times |date=May 31, 2022}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/marvin-josephson-dead-icm-founder-1235150093/|title=Marvin Josephson, Founder of ICM, Dies at 95|first1=Mike|last1=Barnes|website=[[The Hollywood Reporter]] |date=May 19, 2022}}</ref><ref name=Variety>{{Cite web|url=https://variety.com/2022/film/news/marvin-josephson-dead-icm-founder-1235271503/|title=Marvin Josephson, Founder of ICM Partners, Dies at 95|first1=J. Kim|last1=Murphy|date=May 19, 2022|work=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]}}</ref><ref name="Abramowitz">{{cite book|title=Is That a Gun In Your Pocket? Women's Experience of Power in Hollywood|last=Abramowitz|first=Rachel|year=2000|publisher=[[Random House]]|edition=hardcover|location=New York}}</ref>{{rp|51}} ICM's first president was Freddie Fields,<ref name=USATodayObit>[https://www.usatoday.com/life/people/2007-12-12-freddie-fields-obit_N.htm USA Today: "Legendary producer/agent Freddie Fields dies" by John Rogers] December 12, 2007</ref> although he did not last long in the role.<ref>{{cite news|title=Freddie Fields Will Leave Talent Agency to Do Films|date=June 18, 1975|work=[[The New York Times]]|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1975/06/18/archives/freddie-fields-will-leave-talent-agency-to-do-films.html}}</ref> Other important figures in the merger were [[Sam Cohn]]<ref name=NewYorker>{{cite magazine|first=Mark|last=Singer|title=Profiles: Dealmaker|pages=40–84|magazine=[[The New Yorker]]|date=January 11, 1982|url=https://archives.newyorker.com/newyorker/1982-01-11/flipbook/040/|format=fee required|accessdate=May 9, 2009}}</ref> and [[Guy McElwaine]] of CMA.

In 1985, ICM acquired London-based talent agency [[Duncan Heath]] Associates, which in 1991 merged with ICM London, with Heath became chairman of the merged company.
<ref name="ft">{{cite news|url=http://specials.ft.com/creativebusiness/jan292002/FT3Z198C0XC.html|work=[[Financial Times]]|access-date= 16 February 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20020414104843/http://specials.ft.com/creativebusiness/jan292002/FT3Z198C0XC.html|archive-date=14 April 2002|title=AGENT PROVOCATEUR|first=Sathnam|last=Sanghera|date=January 28, 2002}}</ref>

"In 1992, Josephson passed control of ICM onto Jeff Berg, [[Sam Cohn]], and Jim Wiatt, though Josephson maintained a leadership role and continued to represent personal clients."<ref name=Variety />

In 2005, the company raised a financing round of $75 million from [[Rizvi Traverse]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/icm-buyout-jeff-berg-328677|title=ICM Finalizes Management Buyout; Partnership Excludes Former Chairman Jeff Berg|work=The Hollywood Reporter|access-date=2017-12-24|language=en}}</ref>

In 2006, ICM acquired the literary agency Broder Webb Chervin Silbermann.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-jul-29-fi-silbermann29-story.html|title=From Boutique Agency to ICM Brass|last=Hoffman|first=Claire|date=2006-07-29|work=Los Angeles Times|access-date=2017-12-24|language=en-US|issn=0458-3035}}</ref>