NEW YORK – April 19, 2023 – Greenberg Traurig, LLP Shareholders Charles J. Biederman, Daniel H. Black, Steve Plinio, Jess L. Rosen, Bobby Rosenbloum, Mathew S. Rosengart, and Paul D. Schindler were recognized in Variety’s 2023 “Legal Impact Report.” Additionally, Associate Monica W. Zhang is listed in the publication’s “Up Next” feature within the report.
The annual report spotlights the world’s leading attorneys in the entertainment industry and highlights top attorneys winning cases and making deals in Hollywood. This is the tenth time Black and Rosengart have been featured in Variety’s “Legal Impact Report,” the eighth time for Rosenbloum, and the fourth time for Rosen.
Biederman’s clients include recording artists, producers, composers, managers, and executives in the music industry, as well as production companies, studios, publishing companies, actors, athletes, writers, designers, apparel and accessory companies, and advertising agencies, both in the United States and internationally. He has represented buyers and sellers in numerous music catalog sales with a total valuation of more than $1.8 billion. He has received many accolades highlighting his entertainment and media career including The Best Lawyers in America, Billboard’s “Top Music Lawyers”, and Law360’s “Media & Entertainment Practice Group of the Year.” Biederman regularly speaks on various entertainment, branding, and media law topics and taught a class in International Entertainment Law in London for four summers as part of Southwestern Law School’s summer program.
Black, vice chairman of the firm's Global Entertainment & Media Practice and chairman of the West Coast Entertainment and Media Practice, has wide-ranging experience both as a private practitioner and as lead in-house counsel on major transactions at film studios, television networks, streaming services, and web content producing entities. His clients include production, distribution, internet, video game, and augmented reality companies, as well as advertising agencies, showrunners and producers, and on-air television and sports personalities. Black routinely advises senior entertainment and media executives on their overall legal and business strategies and has leveraged his knowledge and experience to further social justice and the equitable evolution of the entertainment and media industry.
Plinio maintains a thriving and talent-focused practice. For more than 20 years, Plinio has served as a key and trusted legal advisor to his clients in all aspects of their careers, guiding them through complex entertainment transactions and other important matters. He represents a roster of both high-profile and developing clients in a wide variety of matters including the negotiation of recording, production, publishing, touring, merchandise, and sponsorship agreements for individual artists, groups, producers, and composers; complex acquisitions and sales of entertainment catalogs and rights; actor, producer, and writer agreements in film and television; and joint venture and production agreements on behalf of artists and their music companies with major distributors. Plinio also has considerable experience as both an attorney and a business executive counseling companies and clients concerning the issues and rights relating to new media and new technologies.
Rosen, co-chairman of the firm’s Atlanta Entertainment & Media practice, is recognized as one of the country’s top entertainment attorneys by Best Lawyers in America and Super Lawyers, serves as trusted legal counsel to many of the music industry’s biggest names, and focuses his practice on talent representation, including virtually all facets of transactional entertainment matters in the music, film, television, and new media industries. In addition, Rosen has wide-ranging experience with sales of well-known music assets including catalog sales, a rising trend in the music business encompassing relationships with more than 20 different funds or buyers, as well as in the celebrity beverage industry, advising clients with their affiliated alcohol brands and launching their own spirits companies. For more than three decades, Rosen has guided preeminent songwriters, producers, recording artists, actors, writers, and executives in critical career decisions. As a professional musician, Rosen has a unique perspective and understanding of both the creative and business issues faced by talent today.
Rosenbloum, chairman of the firm’s global Entertainment & Media Practice, focuses on digital media, entertainment, and technology. He has developed a wide-ranging legal practice, counseling more than 200 businesses, including Fortune 500 companies and prominent startups, on their global digital media strategies and overseeing their negotiations with entertainment content owners. Rosenbloum is widely considered one of the primary architects of the modern digital music business, representing many of the preeminent music streaming services, social media platforms, digital fitness companies, gaming providers, metaverse/Web3 companies, sports leagues and teams, and a wide range of other businesses in connection with their music licensing activities for nearly three decades. Rosenbloum also serves as deputy general counsel for the Recording Academy, the Latin Recording Academy, and the GRAMMY Museum, overseeing all entertainment, intellectual property, and transactional matters for these heralded institutions. Additionally, he represents many world-renowned recording artists, songwriters, athletes, and other superstar talent in all aspects of their entertainment and name, image, and likeness activities.
Rosengart has been described as a “legal powerhouse,” a “powerful litigator,” a “legendary legal warrior” who is “principled,” and a “heavyweight lawyer” by Yahoo News, Newsweek, ABC, and The Guardian. Prior to leading the historic fight to suspend Britney Spears’ father as her conservator, which led to the conservatorship’s termination, Rosengart was described by NPR as a lawyer with “a lot of star power” and by LA Magazine as a “winner” and “heavy hitter” with “a long history of getting results for his big-name clients.” He has received numerous accolades throughout his career, including being named Litigator of the Week by The American Lawyer; one of the Top 100 lawyers in California by the Daily Journal; a Law360 “MVP” for Media & Entertainment; and a Leader of Influence and Top Litigator by the Los Angeles Business Journal, which recognized him as “one of the nation’s preeminent litigators” who is a “go to litigator for Hollywood’s elite and Corporate America.” He also has perennially been recognized by both The Hollywood Lawyer and Variety as one of the nation’s leading media and entertainment litigators.
Schindler is the senior chairman of the New York Entertainment & Media Practice. He has a vast practice representing many of the top names in the entertainment industry including numerous award-winning, multiplatinum musical artists, producers, record labels, brands, and various types of entertainment companies. Schindler brings together a wide range of music and entertainment interests to complete prestigious endorsement deals, merchandising deals, record deals, distribution deals, new media, film and television, Broadway, joint venture agreements, touring agreements, and brand deals and catalog acquisitions and sales of music, copyrights, and master recordings, thereby securing essential income streams for his clients.
Zhang focuses her practice on transactional music matters representing a variety of clients including high-profile and internationally acclaimed recording artists, songwriters, producers, and creators in the negotiation of recording, publishing, composing, production, touring, endorsement and sponsorship, influencer, licensing, and distribution agreements, as well as serving as outside counsel for independent record labels and music publishers, music tech, and multimedia entertainment companies. She represents and advises clients on both catalog acquisitions and sales of music copyrights, trademarks, and related rights. Zhang has most recently been recognized as a team member in Law360’s “Media & Entertainment Practice Group of the Year” and was vice chair of the American Bar Association’s Forum on the Entertainment & Sports Industries, Music & Personal Appearances Division.
About Greenberg Traurig’s Entertainment & Media Practice: With offices situated in the centers of the entertainment industry, Greenberg Traurig has established an experienced, international multidisciplinary entertainment and media practice. The Greenberg Traurig Entertainment & Media Practice focuses on the music, motion picture, television, sports, internet, digital media, publishing, and theater industries. The team has access to key players in the entertainment industry and provides clients with dedicated legal counsel needed to thrive in today’s multidiscipline, multimedia entertainment marketplace. Its entertainment and media attorneys have consistently been ranked by The Hollywood Reporter’s “Power Lawyers,” Variety’s “Dealmakers Impact Report” and “Legal Impact Report,” Billboard’s “Power Lawyers,” The Best Lawyers in America, Chambers USA Guide and Super Lawyers.
About Greenberg Traurig: Greenberg Traurig, LLP has more than 2650 attorneys in 45 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 250. Greenberg Traurig is Mansfield Rule 5.0 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.