Media, entertainment, & sports lawyers

Overview

Turning creative assets into strategic value

Your content, intellectual property, and brand aren’t just creative assets – they are critical to your success. They also involve complex legal and commercial risks that can affect growth, revenue, and control. We partner with stakeholders across the entertainment, media, and sports ecosystem to help you structure, protect, and maximize the value of what you create.

Our work is grounded in deep industry knowledge built through representing media and entertainment companies – including film, television, and music studios – as well as sports teams and leagues, athletes, talent, and investors. When shaping legal strategy, we consider how the relationships among these stakeholders influence negotiations, strategic opportunities, and value creation.

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Sports

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April 1, 2026

Double coverage: CFTC, exchanges signal new era of oversight for sports prediction markets

The past two weeks have brought an avalanche of news related to a maturing framework of prediction markets oversight from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), two prominent prediction markets (Kalshi and Polymarket), and US Congress:

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“[The firm] does a better job than others on adding value. Their conferences, their gathering of the players and people, their focus on the softer side of the relationship – nobody does that better.”

– Client Testimonial

“[Their] strengths are the ability to deliver us the full package of what we need, they have experts in just about everything … [they are] extraordinarily competent, client focused, and very professional.”

Chambers USA, client testimonial

Recognized as “Hollywood’s Top Entertainment Attorneys”

Variety, Legal Impact Report, 2025-2026

Practice Group of the Year, Sports & Betting

Law360, 2025

Results

Advising Mr. Beast in several high-profile deals, including the opening of the Beast Land amusement park in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, and various matters relating to Season 2 of Beast Games, the most watched unscripted show in the history of Amazon Prime
Developed and delivered cutting-edge, anti-harassment programs used around the world in television and film production, including by the Association of Motion Picture Television Production signatories (which includes hundreds of producers and production companies)
Obtained a directed verdict and court-ordered attorneys’ fees for a large media company in a jury trial of a competitor’s claim that our client and a third competitor conspired to eliminate the plaintiff from the billboard advertising business in central Florida

Represented an international television studio in its investment in a British content-focused subscription video on demand platform with its joint venture partners
Represented an international television studio in connection with its sale of its subsidiary and the formation of a joint venture
Prevailed on motion for summary judgement in a dispute between a sports and talent agency, two sports agents who defected from the agency and their new employer, a management agency
Won summary judgment for a major video game publisher in an action brought by a rock band claiming that their right of publicity in their unique sound was violated by a publisher’s use of a rerecorded cover version of their hit song in a popular video game
Advising an international entertainment company on a range of privacy and security matters, including reviewing and revising privacy policies, the development of COVID-19 policies and practices, and reviewing security and privacy provisions of third-party agreements
Represented a media conglomerate with the tax structuring of the transfer of a sports team, their field and other related assets
Defeated an attempt to overturn a lower court decision in favor of a major theme park; the matter involved a five-year battle in which multiple plaintiffs had challenged the sufficiency of the reduced wait time accommodations at an entertainment park for persons with autism; also represented this client in several other Americans with Disabilities Act and state law challenges in Texas, Florida and California
Represented a national television network in a putative class action brought by plaintiffs who alleged various wage and hour violations related to required quarantine while working on productions during the COVID-19 pandemic
Advised the Special Litigation Committee of the board of directors of an entertainment company in connection with its investigation of derivative stockholder claims challenging a three-part $600 million transaction
Representing the NCAA in the defense concussion cases, in which student athletes in several sports are alleging that the NCAA – along with various universities, coaches, trainers, doctors and medical practices – are responsible for concussion-related injuries suffered while they were engaged in intercollegiate sports
Advising a national sports league on the negotiation and administration of a league-wide disability insurance program
Advised and represented a major Hollywood studio in matters pending before the National Labor Relations Board involving Screen Actors Guild – American Federation of Television and Radio Artists and the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees
Representing one of the world’s largest talent media agencies in trademark, copyright and related matters