Entertainment & Sports Law
The sports and entertainment lawyers at Nicola, Gudbranson & Cooper, LLC offer professional services to clients in both the entertainment and sports industries in Cleveland and throughout Ohio. NGC attorneys provide clients with a range of services geared toward assuring their legal rights and protecting their businesses, including counseling clients and negotiating agreements relating to intellectual property, such as electronic rights, media rights, and sponsorships.
Sports
The contractual relationship between player and owner is only one aspect of the specialized field of sports law. At the league level, ownership of ball clubs and related transactions can raise significant issues regarding anti-trust laws. With backgrounds in employment law, construction law, and the business and corporate world, NGC attorneys are exceptionally well-situated to handling even the most complex aspects of a sports law practice.
- Creating ownership packages for sports-related enterprises
- Negotiating asset and equity transfers
- Restructuring equity and debt
- Obtaining league- and association-level approvals
- Establishing baseball clubs
- Negotiating ballpark leases
- Negotiating labor agreements
Music and Entertainment
Protecting the rights to one's creative work is essential to artists and producers in the music and entertainment field. The law in this area is constantly evolving as the technology driving the industry itself progresses at an exponential pace. NGC attorneys practice extensively in this area and stay on top of all the latest legal developments. With a strong background in labor and employment law, the lawyers at NGC are also able to skillfully assist clients in negotiating and establishing various types of employment-related contracts and agreements.
- Music publishing
- Copyright
- Royalty
- Management agreements
