• Advertising and Promotions
• Branded Entertainment
• Corporate Media and Entertainment
• Entertainment Finance
• IP and Entertainment Litigation
• Motion Picture and Television
• Music
• Sports
• Talent
• Theatre

We also advise clients with respect to guild and union issues, including counseling companies about SAG, AFTRA, DGA, WGA, Teamsters and IATSE agreements. In addition, we frequently draw upon our numerous resources in other areas of the firm. Attorneys from the Corporate, Financial Services, Tax, Labor and Employment, Litigation and Trusts and Estates practices are often involved in serving entertainment clients. This provides clients with direct access to senior counselors who can provide resolution to a wide variety of legal needs.

Service Approach

Our legal expertise and understanding of our clients' businesses and objectives enables us to give practical advice for prudent decision making. Our established history and reputation in the entertainment and media industry allows our experienced attorneys to add knowledge, depth and insight for every client, case and transaction. We have decades of industry-insider experience and long-standing, high level relationships in the advertising and entertainment industries, which allow us access to resources in those communities that are critical to our clients’ success.

Clients and Industries

We serve a national and international client base, including entertainment and media companies; music industry record labels, distributors and publishers; motion picture and television producers, distributors, writers, directors and actors; playwrights, composers and other artists; private equity, venture capital and film funds; financial services firms; and national advertisers and advertising agencies.

Leadership in Law

Our Entertainment and Media group recently received high praise in the 2009 edition of the Chambers USA Guide to America’s Leading Business Lawyers. Chambers ranks lawyers and law practices through interviews with clients and competitors. Loeb & Loeb ranked in the top band of U.S. law firms in the areas of Transactional Media and Entertainment, Theater, Film, Television and Music. In addition, the firm also was noted for its excellence in Advertising, Talent Transactional, Media and Entertainment Litigation and Copyright and Contract Disputes. Seventeen entertainment and media partners were individually recognized for their achievements within these categories.

As quoted by Chambers, “As entertainment mergers continue to take place, this national practice, with strong presence on both coasts, continues to draw praise for its expertise in all areas of the entertainment business. Its 100-year history gives weight to the practice, which spans music, film, TV, theater and new media. ‘It aggressively pursues the interests of its clients’ in work ranging from corporate finance and M&A transactions to advising high net worth individuals on trusts and estates matters.”

Similarly, the 2009 edition of The Legal 500 United States, a law firm referral guide, praised Loeb for having “developed a reputation as ‘the biggest name in entertainment’ with the capacity to ‘handle major transactions’. Combining IP, M&A, finance and litigation experience, the full service group is made up of approximately 25 partners solely practicing entertainment law and makes full use of its ‘wide range of experience’.”

Woodward/White, Inc.’s The Best Lawyers in America® and Lawdragon 500: New Stars, New Worlds have also recently recognized Loeb & Loeb’s entertainment and media practice as among the best.