Entertainment

VLC’s entertainment attorneys provide a broad array of legal services to entertainment and media companies and entrepreneurs, including film and television producers, financiers, studios and production companies (scripted and non-scripted); internet, on-line, digital entertainment and technology businesses; advertising and communications companies; video game, digital and print creators and publishers; intellectual property owners; sports franchises and operators; nightclub, restaurant and entertainment venue owners and operators; modelling, talent and management companies and agencies; artists, designers and content creators; and other businesses which are ancillary to the entertainment and media industries, such as developers, distributors, merchandising and licensing operators, post-production companies and set, lighting and location businesses.

VLC’s entertainment attorneys routinely handle film financings; option agreements; development, production and distribution agreements; intellectual property creation, registration, protection and licensing transactions; technology and on-line agreements; assignments and releases; as well as, more traditional corporate transactions, such as debt and equity financings, mergers and acquisitions and strategic alliance and profit-sharing arrangements, among other things. VLC’s entertainment attorneys also frequently handle intellectual property infringement matters, breaches of contract, and financing, rights and other contractual disputes.

As is the case with VLC’s other specialists, its entertainment attorneys always strive to add value on the business side of the entertainment and media transactions being handled, as well as, providing solid legal counsel, to ensure that such entertainment and media transactions make good business and financial sense and advance corporate objectives overall, and yet, are accomplished on a cost-effective basis.