Sports and Entertainment Law
SLG Sports and Entertainment
About SLG Sports and Entertainment
The sports and entertainment lawyers at the Sommer Law Group help clients capitalize on their talents, ideas, products, and services. With experience representing clients both locally and around the world, our attorneys have the knowledge and skill required to protect and enhance your rights as an author, artist, athlete, musician, filmmaker, actor, dancer, producer – anyone involved in the sports and entertainment industry. We are dedicated to protecting your most valuable assets. Whether you are new to the industry or looking to jump to a new level of success, our attorneys offer honest and professional representation designed to produce results.
What We Do
The services we provide are as varied as the clients we represent. Clients seeking experienced professionals in sports and entertainment law can call Sommer Law Group for representation in all types of areas and issues, including:
- Business Start-Up and Development. The formation of a legal entity, if properly done, will help to minimize the risks associated with performing and operating in today's litigious business environment by protecting your personal assets from business-related liabilities, ensuring that your business entity selection and formation decisions are customized to your current circumstances, and maintaining flexibility for future growth. Following the initial formation, we will help ensure that your business structure continues to protect you through any ownership changes, management challenges, and more complex business and financial opportunities.
- Accounting/Financial Management. Managing your finances can be stressful, overwhelming, and confusing at times. Our lawyers can help plan, direct, monitor, organize, and control your monetary resources, by advising and counseling with regard to entertainment lenders and borrowers, public and private investors and other providers and users of capital in the entertainment industry, including structuring, negotiating and documenting loans and other financial agreements for projects and products.
- Protecting and Licensing Your Intellectual Property. Our lawyers advise and counsel clients in the creation, registration, and protection of their intellectual property, titles, copyrights, and trademarks. We will help you determine the best ways to structure, negotiate, and document:
- Intellectual property transactions;
- Product and content acquisitions and sales;
- Copyright and trademark licenses;
- Merchandising ventures and opportunities;
- Publishing agreements;
- Advertising, marketing, promotions and sponsorships.
It is important to work with an experienced intellectual property attorney from the beginning of your creative ideas and innovative concepts in order to enhance their future value in the entertainment industry. Additionally, we defend against any trademark infringements or unauthorized or prohibited use of your works under copyright so that you can maintain control over the products of your creativity and protect the profits resulting from those works.
- Sports and Entertainment Contracts. The contract negotiation process is difficult even for seasoned veterans in the sports and entertainment industry. It is a necessity for an athlete or entertainer, especially one new to the industry, to obtain the services of an experienced attorney to help with complex contract negotiations. With the help of our sports and entertainment lawyers, the benefits from a successful contract negotiation can literally last you a lifetime.
- We work to maximize your creative opportunities by organizing, preparing and negotiating various sports and entertainment law contracts and adding terms that give you financial reward, creative control and greater exposure. We review, draft, and negotiate the below-listed contracts and legal documentation and more.
- Production contracts
- Development contracts
- Media distribution agreements
- Recording agreements
- Performance contracts
- Entertainment representation agreements
- Sports performance agreements
- Royalty, licensing and publishing agreements
- Merchandising agreements
- Financing agreements
Our Clients
We represent clients in all aspects of the sports and entertainment industry.
- Athletes
- Actors
- Producers
- Songwriters
- Coaches
- Photographers
- Authors
- Bands
- Designers
- Dancers
- Models
- Independent Artists
- Directors
- Screenwriters
- Studio Engineers
- Record Labels
- Artists
- Performers
We handle a variety of issues in order to best serve
you. No matter you're issue, we are here to help!
you. No matter you're issue, we are here to help!