Our Practice
We provide high-caliber, yet personalized legal services for clients involved in the development and distribution of content for the entertainment and high-tech industries. Our services include:
- Entertainment Transactions
- Intellectual Property
- Corporate Matters
- Talent Representation
- Software Development/High Tech Transactions
We are a boutique entertainment transactional firm. Our work includes the preparation and negotiation of a wide range of entertainment and related agreements, the counseling of clients to obtain copyright and trademark protection, formation of companies and registration to do business, due diligence and negotiation of purchase and sale of intellectual property assets. Following is a representative list of some of the matters we handle for our clients.
Entertainment Transactions
- Film Financing Agreements
- Digital and physical distribution agreements
- Production legal services for film and television
- Music licenses for digital downloads, internet streaming, ringtones, digital jukeboxes, video games, film, television and commercials
- Joint venture and profit participation agreements
- Loan agreements secured by intellectual property
- Software licenses and mobile application development agreements
- Recording contracts
- Producer agreements
- Collaboration agreements for screenwriters and songwriters
- Releases for performers
- Music publishing agreements
- Composer agreements for film and television
- Soundtrack agreements
- Music clearances
- Domain name registrations
- Visual artist exhibition and gallery consignment agreements
- Option agreements
- Demo recording agreements
- Merchandise licensing
- Employment agreements
- Non-compete and non-solicitation agreements
- Contest rules and registrations
- Facilities and venue agreements
- Video production agreements
- Photography agreements
- Artwork and graphic design agreements
Talent Representation
- Negotiations of actor, writer and producer agreements, literary rights agreements, recording contracts, music publishing agreements, on-air celebrity agreements
- Endorsements and sponsorship agreements
- Management agreements
- Live performance agreements
- Negotiations of contract releases
Corporate Matters
- Company formation
- Partnership agreements
- Shareholder agreements
- Limited Liability Company operating agreements
- Formation and securing tax exempt status for non-profit corporations
- Purchase and sale of music catalogs (recording and publishing) and related due diligence
- Mergers and acquisitions
- Private Placements
- General counsel services for companies
Intellectual Property
- Copyright registrations, licensing, searches and opinions
- Trademark registrations, licensing, searches and opinions
- Non-disclosure agreements
- Cease and desist letters
- Litigation management of intellectual property disputes
- Anti-counterfeiting programs
- Franchise agreements, state registrations and disclosure documents
- International copyright and trademark matters