Entertainment and Sports

The firm represents various clients in transactions involving the development, financing, production, distribution, co-investments of film and theatrical productions, as well as live shows and content licenses.

We have advised both production companies and broadcasters, as well as celebrities, in preparing and negotiating various complex arrangements and contracts to facilitate diverse productions. Our advisory includes talent and creative hiring, encompassing contracts for content rights acquisition, image rights, commissioned works, adaptations, set designs, co-productions, synchronization rights, promotional tours, and booking, among others. We represent artists, celebrities, directors, producers, writers, influencers, athletes, and other entertainment industry participants.

Our services in this area include, among others:

• Production and co-production contracts.

• Distribution agreements.

• Broadcasting and retransmission contracts.

• Music works contracting, synchronization rights, and jingles.

• Acquisition of foreign rights for domestic productions.

• Publishing agreements.

• Talent contracts.

• Sponsorship agreements.

• Image rights.

• Artistic tour advisory.

• Sale of canned productions.

• Commissioned works.

• Contracts for actors, writers, producers, scriptwriters, editors, composers, set designers, filmmakers, commentators, athletes, and others.

• Advice on collective management societies, royalty payments, and collections.

• Exploitation and dissemination of works.

• Financing of film and theater projects.

• Agents and representatives for artists and athletes.

• Integrated product agreements.

• Intellectual property protection.

• Location permits.

• Rights chain management.

• Legal advice during the production of audiovisual works, live events, podcasts, and other forms of communication.

• Advisory for investors and entrepreneurs interested in investing, financing, or sponsoring in the entertainment sector, including analysis of business plans and structures.

• Tax incentives.

• Theater, film, and television.

• Video games.

• Obtaining work visas and special permits, employer certificates, and maintenance and renewal of immigration stays.