Practice Areas

Singh, Singh & Trauben, LLP provides our clients a sophisticated, premier-quality and cost-effective work product across a comprehensive and full spectrum of legal areas – ranging from simple to complex transactional work to representation in high-stakes commercial litigation and arbitration disputes.

Our practice focuses on these principal areas:

• Entertainment & Sports Law
  • Singh, Singh & Trauben, LLP’s Managing Partner, Simran Singh, is a seasoned entertainment law attorney who previously worked as an in-house attorney for the world’s largest music company (Universal Music), before representing a variety of entertainment companies, producers and artists along with many others in publishing, licensing, copyright and intellectual property transactional matters. Our clients include Grammy-Award and Billboard-Award winning artists, producers, songwriters, renowned film and television production companies, actors and professional athletes. Specifically, our Entertainment and Sports law practice assists clients in the following industries:
    • FILM: covering option agreements, finance, chain of title issues, talent agreements (screenwriters, film directors, actors, composers, production designers), production and post production and trade union issues, distribution issues, motion picture industry negotiations distribution, and general intellectual property issues especially relating to copyright and trademarks;
    • MUSIC: including artist recording, producer, distribution, license, publishing, synchronization agreements, as well as general intellectual property issues, especially relating to copyright;
    • TELEVISION: covering talent agreements (writers, directors, actors), production and post production, distribution issues, and general intellectual property issues especially relating to copyright and trademarks; and
    • PUBLISHING and PRINT MEDIA: including advertising, models, author agreements and general intellectual property issues, especially relating to copyright.
    • SPORTS: including a variety of matters, including contract, tort, agency, antitrust, constitutional, labor, trademark, criminal, and tax issues.
• Entertainment and Commercial Litigation
  • Singh, Singh & Trauben, LLP is comprised of accomplished attorneys who have had extensive experience at large regional firms specializing in commercial and general business litigation matters, including numerous intellectual property disputes. Our attorneys have successfully represented clients in high-magnitude litigation matters, including successful representation in multi-million dollar disputes with high-profile record labels and distributors. In addition, our litigators have both prosecuted and defended matters in vast range of commercial disputes, particularly handling a vast and diverse range of copyright and trademark infringement matters and general entertainment litigation.
• Corporate Transactions and Business Formation
  • At Singh, Singh & Trauben, our attorneys draw upon substantial experience and expertise in business law to assist new businesses and companies in navigating a wide range of business formation needs, from determining the type of entity to establish at the inception of the business, to preparing documents necessary to create that entity including protection of the business intellectual property rights. We work closely with each business to provide pragmatic and cost-effective solutions to their business needs, having the skill-set to handle both transactional and litigation matters. Singh, Singh & Trauben’s attorneys further have extensive experience in counseling businesses in many facets of a their ongoing legal needs, including employment agreements, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, franchising needs, licensing issues and all aspects arising from any business-related disputes.