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
- Media appearances
- PR experience