I've worked on many different types of entertainment and technology deals.

Significant Experience

  • Talent agreements (on talent side and producer side), including some past experience with A-list talent

  • Option agreements – screenplay, book, life rights

  • Low budget production legal agreements

  • Web series agreements

  • Rights issues

  • Review of chain of title documents

  • Sponsorship agreements for a physical venue (a hospitality space at the Sundance Film Festival, financed by sponsors)

  • Software development agreements, web development agreements

  • Joint venture agreements

  • Custom software licenses, End User License Agreements (EULAs)

  • Consulting agreements

  • Licensing agreements

  • Guild issues – write and teach about all guild issues; particular expertise in above the line issues, especially residuals and new media

  • LLC agreements – primarily have written the operational and control sections for entertainment or tech LLCs

  • Private Placement Memos (PPMs) – primarily have written or revised the business description and risk factors sections for tech companies

  • Miscellaneous agreements – have written a variety of hard to categorize agreements relating to entertainment, tech or IP

  • Outside general counsel – have been de facto outside GC for two tech/entertainment clients, each of approx. 10 year duration

  • IP counseling – have advised on copyright and trademark matters and miscellaneous disputes, and helped clients interface with patent counsel

  • Litigation counseling – have served as counselor, interpreter and contact point between client and litigators in several matters

Additional Experience

  • Executive employment agreements (about a dozen)

  • Book publishing agreements (about a half-dozen)

  • Videogame agreements (several deals)

  • Spokesperson agreements (two or three)

  • Equity-waiver stage agreements (two productions)

  • Mobile advertising (one client, about a dozen deals)

  • Independent film finance (one deal; represented the bank)

  • Sale of film library (several hundred pictures; one deal)

  • Litigation (primarily appellate) and arbitration – Federal Court of Appeals clerkship plus first three years of career

  • Independent producer – optioned and developed a feature film screenplay in mid-1990’s; later, in 2000’s, optioned and developed a comic book series for use as basis of a TV series

  • Business plan writing

  • Journalism

  • Media appearances

  • PR experience