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Representative Experience
OUR FEATURED EXPERIENCES
Representative Experience
ENTERTAINMENT TRANSACTIONS
- Structure finance, production and distribution agreements as well as talent and executive employment, rights acquisitions and sales agreements for both established and emerging film, music and media entities;
- Assist in raising debt and equity capital from private and public sources to fund studio and independent projects and entertainment companies;
- Assist actors, writers, directors and producers with a broad range of matters, from drafting and negotiating contracts and distribution agreements to complex financing and licensing agreements;
- Represent urban, hip-hop, R&B, rock, metal, electronic, alternative, indie and Latin music stars, songwriters and recording legends as well as estates to protect their interests;
- Represent record and publishing companies, production companies, music industry executives and managers, songwriters, and concert promotion companies on a range of matters, including contracts, licensing and merchandising, corporate sponsorship, financing, copyright litigation, mergers and acquisitions and labor;
- Negotiate employment contracts for talent and top level executives;
- Represent the interests of key business and creative players in structuring and negotiating innovative brand integration and activation deals for feature films, television, new media, music and video games;
- Negotiate rights agreements, including literary option and purchase agreements and life story rights agreements, and agreements for actors, writers, directors and producers;
- Structure complex production and talent agreements for scripted and unscripted/reality television series;
- Review and analyze complex chains of title;
- Draft and negotiate recording, publishing, management, distribution, touring, merchandising, licensing, partnership and Internet agreements, as well as devise strategies to help our clients protect their intellectual property rights;
- Negotiate agreements between sales agents and producer/financiers and agreements between producers and distributors;
- Represent studios, producers and brands in commercial tie-in, product placement and publicity arrangements, including contests and web-based promotions;
- Develop strategies to build or exploit brand value;
- Advise on trademark registration and negotiate licensing agreements and merchandising agreements;
- Advise producers on structuring investment vehicles and negotiate deals between rights holders and producers/financiers;
- Represent investors and entrepreneurs looking to invest in the entertainment sector by analyzing business plans and structuring deals;
- Structure transactions including the establishment of film funds, corporate formation and securities offering
Representative Experience
ENTERTAINMENT LITIGATION
- Extensive experience in state and federal courts across the entire United States;
- Extensive experience working with skilled mediators and civil collaborative law practitioners to provide the full spectrum of dispute resolution opportunities to our clients;
- Maintain a multidisciplinary litigation practice that encompasses film, television, radio, music, art, digital entertainment and advertising;
- Consistently litigate high-profile disputes ranging from actions for an accounting and payment in music royalty disputes, and breaches of distribution and producer agreements, to disputes regarding celebrity life story rights and intellectual property theft;
- Litigate a wealth of copyright infringement claims for major recording artists and producers, including representing producers and songwriters in copyright infringement claims over music composition and performance rights in, among other places, television and feature films;
- Litigate numerous claims involving royalties, sampling, licensing and commission fees owed;
- Represent content creators in defense of copyright and trademark claims, including legal matters related to DMCA take-down provisions;
- Represent reputable creators and showrunners of acclaimed television series in disputes with production companies;
- Represent award winning television producers in disputes with global media and production companies;
- Litigate defamation and right of publicity and privacy rights disputes;
- Copyright and trademark protection & enforcement
Representative Experience
BUSINESS TRANSACTIONS
- Represent foreign and domestic clients in a broad range of corporate, financial, securities, and real estate transactions;
- Represent a variety of private equity groups, closely held businesses and start-up companies in drafting and negotiating joint venture and strategic alliance agreements, consulting agreements, restricted stock plans, non-competition and non-solicitation agreements, employment agreements and manuals, promissory notes, operating agreements and bylaws, and licensing, distribution and lease agreements;
- Represent entrepreneurs with transformational technologies for the delivery of digital content;
- Structure financial arrangements among investors, financiers, distributors and senior lenders;
- Project finance, capital leasing, and other financing transactions;
- Assist in drafting and negotiating financing agreements, including forbearance, loan and restructuring agreements,
- Intellectual property, real estate, and other liabilities due diligence;
- Shareholder, partner or member relationships, disputes and buyouts;
- Represent clients in a wide range of labor negotiation and employment litigation matters;
- Structuring franchise relationships
Representative Experience
BUSINESS LITIGATION
- Extensively litigate cases in federal and state court involving alleged misappropriation of trade secrets, trademark infringement and dilution, unfair competition and false advertising;
- Defend corporate clients in federal and state false advertising and breach of warranty consumer class action matters before federal and state trial and appellate courts;
- Defend corporate clients in a range of employment law and labor disputes, including restrictive covenant employment litigation, non-solicitation agreements and trade secrets;
- Computer and information technology disputes;
- Dissolution of corporations and partnerships;
- Shareholder and partnership disputes;
- Antitrust and unfair competition disputes;
- Libel, slander and violation of privacy;
- Commercial real estate disputes;
- Construction law disputes;
- Creditor Representation – Insolvency;
- General commercial litigation
Our Practice Areas
OUR FEATURED SERVICES
WE ARE RESPONSIBLE
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