Sports, Entertainment, and Recreation

Rimon’s Sports, Entertainment, and Recreation practice specializes in complex legal and business transactions litigation, risk management, and taxation for the music, film and TV, sports, software, and recreation industries.

Rimon’s Sports and Recreation practice focuses on the representation of recreational providers, such as ski areas, climbing gyms, travel outfitters, and outdoor athletes and educators. Rimon’s attorneys have decades of experience representing recreational providers in the defense of sports-related litigation and related matters, such as drafting liability releases that provide recreational providers a complete defense to claims. We have been closely involved in the evolution of the legal doctrine of assumption of risk, for example by briefing the California Supreme Court on issues important to recreational providers. We monitor recreation-related legal issues across the country in order to best advise our clients not only on the current state of the law, but nationwide trends.

Rimon’s Entertainment practice has a particular emphasis on music. We represent leading recording artists, songwriters, talent managers, producers, production companies, athletes, authors, film producers, directors, actors, writers, and telecommunications companies. We specialize in complex legal and business transactions for the music, film and TV, software, and sports industries.

We have decades of experience negotiating and structuring the agreements which govern the creative industries at the highest levels, including:

Music recording, production, distribution, licensing, catalog acquisition, and catalog transfer agreements
Music publishing, co-publishing, subpublishing, administration, songwriter, and performing rights organization agreements, as well as copyright registrations, renewals, and terminations
Artist and athlete performance, touring, partnership, band member, merchandising, management, agency, endorsement, and sponsorship agreements
Film financing and distribution agreements, actor engagements, rights clearance, composer, music supervisor, and soundtrack acquisitions and distribution agreements
Related corporate agreements, including corporations, joint ventures, and LLCs
Insurance agreements related to all of the above
Related tax advice including choice of entity, loan-out arrangements, sales versus licenses, tax withholding, and treaty issues

Related Practice Areas

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Commercial Litigation

Pre-litigation counseling
Class actions
Government civil proceedings
Internal compliance litigation
Licensure disputes and proceedings
Managed care network disputes
Pharmaceutical pricing litigation
Services contract disputes
Alternative dispute resolution
Expert witness services
Alternative dispute resolution proceedings, including arbitration and mediation
All stages of litigation, including trial, as well as appellate proceedings

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Employment Law

Advice and counseling
Employee compensation
Benefit plans and arrangements
Compensation negotiation and documentation
Competitive market position
Corporate whistleblowing
Corporate governance and shareholder-related matters
Cross-border employment law issues
Discrimination, harassment and retaliation
ERISA and benefits litigation
Executive compensation
Financial reporting
Public disclosure
Retention concerns and succession planning
Securities law compliance
Traditional labor law
Wage-and-hour
Withdrawal

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Estate and Gift Tax

Gift tax minimization through grantor retained annuity trusts (GRATs), family limited partnerships and other structures
Dynasty trust planning to avoid estate tax in successive generations
Income tax minimization through charitable remainder trusts and direct gifts to private family foundations
Preparation of estate tax returns and gift tax returns

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Intellectual Property Litigation

Intellectual property litigation and consultation
IP consultation, including technology assessment, valuation, and competitive analysis
Unfair competition litigation and misappropriation litigation
Copyrights
Trade secrets litigation
Unfair competition, non-compete and licensing cases
IP counseling and due diligence
Patent prosecution and counseling
Trademarks
Patent litigation, including plant patent and design patent cases
Technology transfer