We work with creative professionals and unusual businesses, digital dreamers and strategists.
Our clients hire us because of our experience as savvy and pragmatic business lawyers, our experience with intellectual property issues, and our understanding of their world.
Many of our clients are young or young-at-heart who have grown in a professional space that is defined by rapid and often disruptive shifts in content, technology and revenue models. We offer experienced and practical counsel with an open mindset. We are naturally curious and as genuinely excited to learn about our clients’ business and ideas, as we are to provide relevant and effective legal services.
We represent creative talent and senior strategists at a number of prominent digital agencies. We have counseled and learned from clients who are online content and service providers, mobile app companies, Internet and tech start-ups, charitable and cultural institutions, and clients in digital and social media. We work often with international businesses and our transactions frequently involve a cross-border element, including activities or partnerships in Brazil, the EU, Canada, Australia, Korea, Hong Kong and China.
We focus on getting our clients the best results by protecting intellectual property rights and revenue streams, while retaining our clients’ creative control. We advise on a wide-range of new media projects, including joint ventures, mobile apps, branded content and endorsements, media publication rights across multiple jurisdictions, and technology-driven platforms.
We have substantial experience and knowledge for those looking to acquire, create, disseminate, invest, protect, monetize, and sell their assets in the traditional and emerging digital landscape. We counsel multinational businesses, private funds, and emerging companies in a wide array of areas from advertising, cloud technology, data mining, digital and social media compliance and policies, to electronic licensing and distribution, evolving privacy issues, and technology transfer licensing for mobile apps and other digital platforms.
We have been engaged to negotiate and structure digital agency spin-offs from more traditional ad agencies. We have negotiated complex business transactions, as well as intellectual property licenses. We have represented creative talent in employment matters, strategic ventures and partnerships. In these areas, we have provided guidance to clients with respect to intellectual property matters, restrictive covenants and fee-sharing arrangements.
Our clients include digital freelancers and marketers, a leading global social movement-driven firm, an augmented-reality social media game, a luxury brand consultancy, a producer of house concerts for classical music, a virtual world, a social calendaring platform, as well as more established digital agencies and investors who want to get ahead of the curve. We have worked with contemporary art collectors, music festival promoters, jewelry designers, fine pastry and food entrepreneurs, a Michelin-starred UK celebrity chef, a society florist and perfumer, and a leading international management guru.