LOS ANGELES – Aug. 22, 2024 – Charles (Jeff) Biederman joins moderator Mathew S. Rosengart, both shareholders of global law firm Greenberg Traurig, LLP, at the inaugural 2024 Entertainment Law Summit hosted by the Beverly Hills Bar Association Aug. 23 at the Skirball Cultural Center.
Biederman will speak on the panel titled “Music Industry Legal Update,” which includes Peter Anderson, partner at Davis Wright Tremaine LLP, and Bill Hochberg and Rami S. Yanni, both partners at Raines Feldman LLP.
Rosengart will moderate a CLE panel, titled “Trends and Hot Button Issues for Entertainment Lawyers and Litigators,” includes speakers Niloofar Bina Shepherd, deputy general counsel, Litigation & Employment at CAA; Courtney Braun, chief legal officer at Endeavor; Carlos Goodman, partner and founder of Goodman Genow, et al.; and Camille M. Vasquez, partner at Sheppard Mullin.
Biederman is a versatile entertainment attorney based in the firm’s Los Angeles office. He regularly advises clients in the music, film, television, branding, fashion, advertising, and digital media spheres. Biederman has worked on more than $2 billion in aggregate music catalog deals in recent years, and his clients include recording artists, producers, composers, managers, and executives in the music industry. He has previously been recognized in Variety magazine’s Legal Impact Report and Billboard magazine’s Top Music Lawyers list.
Rosengart, who was named 2024’s Entertainment Litigator of the Year by Benchmark Litigation, has been described by his longtime client Sean Penn as “a tough as nails streetfighter with a big brain and bigger principles” and has been recognized by the Los Angeles Business Journal as “one of the nation’s preeminent litigators” and a “go to litigator for Hollywood’s elite and Corporate America.” Among many other accolades, Rosengart has also repeatedly been recognized as one of the Top 100 attorneys in the State by the Daily Journal, a “power lawyer” by The Hollywood Reporter, a “heavyweight attorney” and media and entertainment MVP by Law360, a “heavy hitting trial lawyer” by The Legal 500, and a General Litigation and Sports & Entertainment Trailblazer by The National Law Journal. In recently honoring him as one of the Top 200 lawyers in the United States, Forbes, which had previously described him as a “revered” litigator, stated that “Rosengart brings the passion and legal expertise to private practice that made him notable as a federal prosecutor.” The Beverly Hills Bar Association previously bestowed him with the Excellence in Advocacy Award, and he is also a recipient of Variety’s Power of Law Award for legal excellence and philanthropy.
About Greenberg Traurig’s Entertainment & Media Litigation Group: Greenberg Traurig’s multi-disciplinary Media & Entertainment Litigation Practice is recognized as being one of the most experienced in the world and is involved in some of the most sophisticated and cutting-edge cases in the courts today. The diversity of our client base and our industry experience provide us with an advantage when representing clients in complex litigation matters ranging from trademarks, copyrights, right of publicity, the First Amendment, defamation, to financing, distribution, and partnerships in the entertainment and media industries. Greenberg Traurig was named a 2022 Media & Entertainment Practice Group of the Year by Law360 and the 2023 Entertainment Law Firm of the Year by Benchmark Litigation.
About Greenberg Traurig: Greenberg Traurig, LLP has more than 2750 attorneys in 47 locations in the United States, Europe and the Middle East, Latin America, and Asia. The firm is a 2022 BTI “Highly Recommended Law Firm” for superior client service and is consistently among the top firms on the Am Law Global 100 and NLJ 500. Greenberg Traurig is Mansfield Rule 6.0 Certified Plus by The Diversity Lab. The firm is recognized for powering its U.S. offices with 100% renewable energy as certified by the Center for Resource Solutions Green-e® Energy program and is a member of the U.S. EPA’s Green Power Partnership Program. The firm is known for its philanthropic giving, innovation, diversity, and pro bono. Web: www.gtlaw.com.