Entertainment and New Media

ELP is highly accomplished in representing the myriad interests of a wide variety of clientele, including high profile writers, actors, directors, producers, production companies, leading media companies, distributors, sales agents, financiers, authors, musicians, composers, management companies and journalists across all media platforms, including film, television, theater, print & publishing, radio, gaming and all facets of established and emerging new media. Leveraging successful track records, ELP’s attorneys distinguish themselves from other entertainment law firms by bringing first hand comprehensive industry experience beyond the law of entertainment. ELP’s attorneys are thus uniquely situated to provide a full gamut of not only legal services, but business and creative counsel as well on all aspects of our client’s particular needs as top tier lawyers with a first hand creative perspective. ELP’s years of experience spans the range of entertainment transactions to protect and advance our clients’ position in a variety of entertainment related transactions, including:

• Negotiating and documenting talent and executive employment agreements, rights acquisitions and sales, as well as complex finance, acquisition and distribution agreements. 
• Raising of debt and equity capital from private and public sources.
• Structuring independent films of all budgets on behalf of both talent and producer clients, including corporate formation, equity financing, foreign pre-sales, tax credits & rebates.
• Providing comprehensive legal services for major film and television performers, directors, screenwriters, composers, producers and production companies, motion picture and television executives, independent distributors and financial institutions.
• Performing production legal services on a diversity of television, new media, independent feature films and documentaries.
• Providing business planning and strategy for a wide range of entertainment and new media companies, including business plan strategy & drafting, negotiation of venture capital funding, private equity investments, strategic alliances and branding.
• Advising clients with respect to all guild and union issues, including counseling companies about SAG, AFTRA, DGA, WGA, Teamsters and IATSE agreements.
• Serving the non-entertainment legal requirements of clients in a wide array of management of personal, financial and business matters, including dispute resolution.