Business & Legal Affairs

We provide industry-leading business & legal affairs services for production and media companies across all aspects of television, film, and digital content. We have several years of in-house senior executive business & legal affairs experience at award-winning production and media companies, as well as major broadcast television and cable networks. Our mix of senior in-house and national law firm experience allows us to provide business-oriented advice to our clients to ensure they achieve practical and industry-leading results.

Production Legal

We serve as production counsel for production companies across the entertainment industry. Once a production is ‘greenlit,’ the number of deals for above-the-line talent, crew, production vendors, locations, and licensed footage is extensive and should be handled by counsel with actual production experience in this field. We have handled production legal services on series and films produced for numerous networks and platforms, such as HBO, ESPN, Netflix, Disney+, CNN, Fox Sports and NBC.

Branded Content / Influencer Marketing

We provide representation and digital media expertise in the evolving branded content landscape. From fitness to fashion to food and everywhere in between, we advise our influencer talent on all terms they need to understand when engaging in branded content, including protecting all aspects of their name, image, and likeness. We provide all-encompassing business & legal affairs services for our production company and brand clients throughout the deal structuring, production and distribution processes.

Development & Shopping

We represent production companies and talent (including directors, producers, showrunners and on-camera talent) throughout all stages of the development process. We provide business and legal affairs services across the entertainment industry, including development agreements, shopping agreements, attachment agreements and option agreements.

Employment

We advise and negotiate on behalf of executives in the entertainment and media industries (including executives at television, film and podcast companies, and advertising and talent agencies) in connection with their employment agreements, separation agreements and other employment matters, as well as represent companies in the entertainment and media industries in building and retaining their employee and independent contractor workforce.

Interactive Media - Gaming, VR, E-Sports

We provide transactional business & legal affairs services across all aspects of interactive media (including the gaming, e-sports, and VR sectors), with respect to content development and production, marketing, financing, and IP licensing matters. We advise entrepreneurs, creatives, talent, and publishers across the growing interactive media landscape.