Strategically located throughout the major entertainment capitals of the world, including Hong Kong, London, Los Angeles, Milan, Nashville, New York, Paris, Singapore, Sydney, and Tokyo, our team of lawyers across practice areas are trusted by clients in publishing, film, television, music, streaming media, and gaming for their extensive experience litigating, negotiating, enforcing, and managing some of the industry’s most sensitive, cutting-edge, and high-profile legal matters.
We have represented clients across all facets of the industry such as major studios, broadcast networks, cable and pay television services, streaming media platforms, and music labels, as well as talent agencies, managers, and performing artists.
Media and Entertainment Litigation
With our deep bench strength, we have tackled some of the global entertainment industry’s most complex and high-profile litigation matters. We are well positioned to represent our clients’ interests at every phase of dispute. Our litigation experience includes:
Protecting and enforcing valuable intellectual property rights across content areas, including copyrights, trademarks, patents, trade secrets, and rights of publicity.
Providing representation in idea theft claims.
Prosecuting and defending complex disputes over profit participation and contract claims.
Providing representation in sensitive investigations involving claims of misconduct, wrongful termination, discrimination, and other employment claims, while being sensitive to the impact on labor relations.
Prosecuting and defending actions involving First Amendment issues, speech restrictions, defamation, slander, libel, and privacy.
Media and Entertainment Transactions
Leveraging our Corporate practice’s strong transaction experience, we are adept at providing industry-specific advice and counsel to prominent clients across the spectrum of entertainment industry transactions. Our lawyers’ deep understanding of the needs of our industry clients make them well situated to bring a creative approach to transactional issues in the media and entertainment space. We assist with:
Company formation and corporate restructuring through mergers and joint ventures, as well as with managing financial aspects, operational capital, and ongoing business activities.
Crafting and executing licensing deals, technology-related contracts, engagement in capital markets, and strategic acquisition and monetization of company assets.
Forming strategic alliances and overseeing financial transactions relevant to the creation, production, and distribution of content, coupled with monetizing intellectual property internationally in existing and nascent markets.
On 3 December 2024, Judge Amos Mazzant of the Eastern District of Texas issued a nationwide preliminary injunction with respect to the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA), enjoining enforcement of the CTA as well as the implementing Treasury regulations, and staying the 1 January 2025 reporting deadline until further order of the Court.
On 22 December 2020, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) adopted amendments (the final rule) to Rule 206(4)-1 under the Investment Advisers Act of 1940 (the Advisers Act) to modernize the regulation of investment adviser advertising and solicitation practices.
In the October edition of The Essentials, we summarize key provisions of California employment laws that took effect in 2024 and those that will take effect in 2025.
In this semiannual series on the U.S. Department of Labor's Regulatory Agenda, partners Craig Leen and Kathleen Parker discuss recent updates to the regulatory agenda and what employers should expect in terms of new labor and employment regulations in 2023.
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