GableGotwals offers full-service capabilities to clients in the sports, media, and entertainment sectors. The team’s broad experience provides unique market insights to advise digital, media, and production companies, entertainment venues, professional and collegiate athletes, musicians, actors, filmmakers, celebrities, licensors/rights holders, investors, and financiers.
The Firm’s Sports, Media & Entertainment group is comprised of former collegiate athletes, parents of Division I athletes, musicians, members of the American Bar Association’s Entertainment and Sports Law Forum, as well as intellectual property, corporate, and litigation specialists.
GableGotwals is poised to provide advice, negotiate agreements, and protect and enforce rights and claims for those who need or desire to capitalize on and protect their intellectual property, their ideas, their creations, or their name, image, and likeness, and for those who help make that possible by marketing, providing capital, digital or other platforms at venues.
Sports
Our attorneys advise athletes, sponsors, organizations, and other participants in the sports industry on contractual, regulatory, intellectual property, and dispute-related matters.
Contracts, Sponsorships & NIL
- Appearances, endorsements, and social media contracts
- Negotiating contracts between athletes and their agents
- Commercial, marketing, and licensing agreements
- Corporate sponsorships and naming rights
- Drafting and negotiating NIL agreements between athletes and sponsors
- Navigating name, image, and likeness (NIL) policies and state regulations
Regulatory, Employment & Disputes
- Employment issues, including Title IX
- Legislation tracking, lobbying, and public policy
- Crisis management
- Breach of contract disputes
- Investigations
Media
Our attorneys counsel clients on media rights, digital platforms, technology, intellectual property, and emerging issues affecting the creation, distribution, and protection of content.
Media, Technology & Digital Assets
- Media rights agreements
- Complex digital media and technology agreements
- Data privacy, piracy, and cybersecurity
- Emerging technologies, NFTs, and digital assets
Intellectual Property & Commercial Matters
- Intellectual property protection, including patent, copyright, and trademark matters
- Commercial, marketing, and licensing agreements
- Mergers, acquisitions, formations, dispositions, and joint ventures
Entertainment
GableGotwals works with entertainment professionals, production companies, investors, and other industry participants on agreements, financing, intellectual property, and production matters.
Film & Production
- Structuring and financing indie-length films
- Negotiating contracts with casts and crews
Rights, Licensing & Business Transactions
- Commercial, marketing, and licensing agreements
- Intellectual property protection, including patent, copyright, and trademark matters
- Mergers, acquisitions, formations, dispositions, and joint ventures
- Breach of contract disputes
Primary Firm Contact(s) for this area of law:
