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Practice/Industry Group Overview
Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP's Media and Entertainment Group is comprised of a multidisciplinary team of lawyers with experience in the areas of entertainment commercial transactions, mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance, litigation and dispute resolution, technology and intellectual property, bankruptcy and debt restructuring, real estate, trust and estates, insurance and tax from our global offices.
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Services Available
The world of media and entertainment continues to grow and evolve, bringing exciting and sophisticated legal and business challenges. Dewey & LeBoeuf has a practice with long-established media and entertainment relationships to serve our clients. Our diverse team offers comprehensive advice on contract negotiations for industry specific matters, including content development, talent representation, media production and distribution, financings and corporate transactions, including financing of entertainment properties, and litigation and dispute resolution involving contract, copyright, trademark, music, film, television, theatre, corporate, interactive media, Internet, magazine and book publishing, and sports entertainment. More specifically, we counsel and service clients' needs in the following areas:
- Advertising marketing;
- Arts and cultural affairs;
- Branding and co-branding;
- Charities and non-profits;
- Copyrights and trademarks;
- Corporate transactions and financings;
- Endorsement and sponsorship;
- Festival planning and live events;
- Film and television;
- Games;
- Insurance;
- Interactive media;
- Internet and Web 2.0;
- Licensing of property rights;
- Litigation and dispute resolution;
- Magazine and book publishing;
- Merchandising;
- Mergers, acquisitions and dispositions;
- Multimedia;
- Museums;
- Music and sound recordings;
- Property development;
- Radio and broadcast communications;
- Sports and sports broadcasting;
- Talent and personality representation;
- Taxes;
- Technology;
- Telecommunications;
- Theatre;
- Trade show and industry conferences;
- Visual arts and design;
- User-generated content; and
- Wealth preservation and estate planning.
The firm's clients include large corporate entities, as well as iconic individual talent and content creators of all types, such as television networks, film production and distribution companies, cable networks, telephone companies, software developers, magazine and newspaper publishers, authors, producers and directors. We represent recording artists, composers, songwriters, actors, designers, professional athletes, sporting associations, executives, real estate developers, hotel franchises, museums, educational institutions and all other businesses in the communications, media, entertainment, merchandising and retail industries.
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