TIFANIE J. ACOSTA
Founder and Managing Partner
Tifanie J. Acosta, founder of ELP, combines her legal expertise with years of hands-on experience as an executive producer, making her a trusted advisor to top talent media companies.
Overview
Tifanie J. Acosta is the Founder and the Managing Partner at Entertainment Law Partners, PC, where she specializes in representing entertainment, corporate, entrepreneur clients as well as individual actors, performers, writers, authors, directors, executive producers, musicians, agents, PR agencies, managers, and producers in all aspects of the corporate, business, and entertainment industry.
Tifanie began her career as head of Business and Corporate Affairs for the prestigious personal management company of Royal and Associates in Beverly Hills, California, representing entertainment talent (mainly for Nancy Cartwright of the SIMPSONS) as well as corporate interests in the industry. From Royal, Tifanie was recruited by TFN, The Football Network, as General Counsel, to manage corporate governance, talent negotiations, development and acquisition of programming including options, live and taped sporting events, documentaries, home video/DVD and digital distribution, news shows, reality, Internet content development and syndication. Then, Tifanie maintained her own practice before she joined MindFusion Law, LLP as partner in the Entertainment and Business Affairs Department. Last, she also served as Senior VP of Business and Legal Affairs for Saddle Ranch Productions where she Executive Produced 3 feature films and conducted production legal on various projects.
Practice Areas
- IP
- Talent Representation
- Entity Formation
- Governance
- Business Affairs
- Production Legal
- Chain of Title
- Publishing
- Entertainment Law
- Touring
EDUCATION
Undergraduate degree from the University of Colorado, Boulder
J.D. from Loyola Law School, Los Angeles
MEMBERSHIPS
Admitted to the Colorado and California State Bar
Associate Member Magic Castle
Auxilary Member Legion 43 Hollywood
Academy of Televisions Arts (Emmys), Professional Representatives Executive Council