We provide a broad range of general counsel and entertainment legal services to a variety of business types and individuals including to service providers (including software services) and vendors, product manufacturers and suppliers (including supply chain), creative content producers, composers, filmmakers, artists, and non-profit companies.Typical work includes advising on, and negotiating agreements (MSA/SOW, production/co-production, distribution, publishing, licensing, director services, SaaS, commission, licensing, NDAs, employment, independent contractor, commercial leases), and business issues in the life of a company (including formation, operating agreements, restricted stock/unit agreements, shareholder agreements).Creative and entertainment industry includes services to filmmakers (scripted and unscripted), film/tv producers, composers (licenses, commissions, film/tv), performers, visual artists (digital and non-digital), marketing/advertising, architects, guest chef and other talent appearances, and influencer services. Business types range from individuals (whether via a loan-out or other entity, or freelance/self-employed) and small local businesses (whether LLCs, corporations, partnerships) to production companies, publishers, marketing/influencer agencies, private equity groups (particularly regarding portfolio companies), and international manufacturing and supply chain in all stages of existence. I also work in conjunction with a network of excellent attorneys to handle an array of other services, including dispute resolution, employment law issues, tax, trademark services, securities, and financings.

Experiments in Opera is a composer-driven non-profit opera company that presents new works that connect words, story and music. http://experimentsinopera.com/about/

MATA is a not-for-profit organization that commissions, presents, and supports the music of a wide array of young composers from around the globe. MATA’s directors are motivated by a desire to create community among composers in the early stages of their careers, especially those whose work does not fit into existing institutions. In providing developing composers with professional performances of their work and valuable connections to colleagues, MATA is a catalyst for their entry into American musical life.Founded by Philip Glass, Eleonor Sandresky, and Lisa Bielawa in 1996, MATA presents a week-long festival of music by composers under age forty each spring in New York City. Each festival presents up to thirty works by young composers, at least three to four of which are newly commissioned. To date, MATA has commissioned seventy works, and has presented over three-hundred performances of pieces by young composers. Commissioned works have been scored for a broad range of ensembles: from orchestra to solo voice, live electronics to gamelan ensemble. Performers on past MATA festivals have included: the Boston Modern Orchestra Project, Gamelan Son of Lion, The Knights Chamber Orchestra, So Percussion, L’Arsenale (Italy), Signal, JACK Quartet, Quartet New Generation, Calder Quartet, Argento Ensemble, Nouvelle Ensemble Moderne, Either/Or, NOW Ensemble, Newspeak, VOX Vocal Ensemble, the Brooklyn Youth Chorus, and many more.

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