We assist media & entertainment, sports and music industry clients to protect marquee assets, close complex deals and win high-stakes disputes spanning traditional and digital content distribution industries. Our cross-disciplinary team advises across the lifecycle — from strategy and transactions to regulatory proceedings and trial — backed by deep industry knowledge and a national and international platform.

Clients turn to us for litigation-ready counseling and, when it is needed, trial-tested litigation expertise that spans the spectrum of traditional and new media companies, music and audio-visual content distributors and streaming services, television and film producers, comedy content service offerings, sports governing bodies and rights owners, as well as digital and online gaming businesses. We are equipped to handle disputes from pleading through trial, while staying focused on the outcome, often achieving favorable pre-trial resolutions that avoid unnecessary cost and negative headlines. With core strength in California, New York and Washington, D.C., and media litigators across the United States and beyond, we bring consistent coverage wherever a dispute or deal lands.

For major content distribution entities (spanning all forms of audio and audio-visual content), we handle copyright infringement, rate-setting matters before the Copyright Royalty Board and courts overseeing the ASCAP and BMI consent decrees, antitrust litigation, and music industry contract and licensing disputes. We are also active in music royalties financing and leveraged finance transactions, including the largest-ever music royalties securitization to date.

We represent entertainment companies in copyright and theft-of-idea disputes, First Amendment and defamation matters, employment and licensing disputes, and in defending content distributors against emerging claims — including class actions — such as claims by comedy writers asserting performance rights in literary works.

In sports, we advise across virtually all aspects of the sector, with high-end commercial counsel for professional and public matters. Our work spans employment, real estate, corporate, financing, construction, tax, intellectual property and dispute resolution. We also have unique experience representing Olympic Organizing Committees, having served as primary outside counsel for the Atlanta organizing committee for the 1996 Games and supporting the 2002 Salt Lake Winter Olympics.

We support clients in evolving digital markets, from eSports and online gaming to digital entertainment and content distribution. Our expertise includes financing, M&A and technology transactions and related disputes. We provide cohesive counsel on technology and IP transactions, IP litigation, music licensing, joint ventures and partnerships, IP due diligence, corporate governance and compliance, employee benefits and executive compensation, Digital Millennium Copyright Act and Communications Decency Act issues, data privacy and security, antitrust, employment litigation, consumer class actions and commercial disputes.