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and Carly Rae Jepsen, along with newcomers Fousheé, Audrey Nuna, Shenseea, and songwriting and production talents Timbaland, Ester Dean, Belly and Victoria Monet.
Throughout the last 18 months, as The Weeknd exploded to stadium-sized levels, Meiselas advised Abel Tesfaye through deals with the NFL and Pepsi’s Super Halftime Show, the expansion of his film/TV footprint from acting (Uncut Gems) to writing, creat- ing and producing and media’s next frontier of auctioning NFT artwork and music, which raised over $2 million.
Lady Gaga’s brand expansion, advised by Meiselas, includes her cosmetics line, Haus Laboratories (in partnership with Amazon), and endorsements with Valentino, Dom Pérignon and Tudor. Her acting career has also excelled
to a new level following her Oscar-nominated role in A Star Is Born, as Gaga is currently filming Ridley Scott’s House of Gucci, in which she has a starring role.
L eading the millennial contingent of music lawyers at the firm is David Jacobs. He represents emerging artists
and tomorrow’s superstars, many of whom were subjects of huge bidding wars, including Kali Uchis, Jessie Reyez, Lil Nas X and Surf Mesa as well as many producers including Take A Day- trip. Attorney Matt Kamen represents A Boogie
Wit da Hoodie, model Winnie Harlow and actress/singer Isabela Moner, and Grace Kim oversees the critically acclaimed Lizzo.
Veteran legal eagles who work side by side with Meiselas and Grubman on super- star clients include Joe Brenner, Sonya Guardo, Don Friedman, Joseph Penachio, Pamela Gurley, and Ted Harris. Brenner oversees Spotify (with Grubman), Group Nine, Genius and other new-media ventures, as well as Mariah Carey, Sting and U2 (with Grubman and David Toraya). Stuart Prager heads the music- publishing department, while Michael Goldsmith leads touring. Young lawyers including Diana Kovacs, Evan Levane, Ilana Shapiro, Kate Moore, Brooke Schachner and Mica Rollock round out the music team.
A s Head of the firm’s Motion Picture, Television, Theatre,
Publishing and New Media practice, Larry Shire brings over 30 years of entertainment law experience. He joined Grubman Shire Meiselas & Sacks, P.C., in 1991 to help lead the firm’s growth and expansion from the music business into all other areas of the transactional entertainment and sports business. Shire represents a wide range of clients, including LeBron James, Live Nation, Robert DeNiro, Elton John, Bruce Springsteen, iHeartMedia, MSG, Facebook and more, while advising music superstars Drake and Billie Eilish on major endorsement deals with Nike and Jordan.
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Department, specializes in corporate trans- actional and executive compensation mat- ters. Sacks advises a wide range of public and private clients in media and entertainment with respect to corporate transactions, includ- ing companies such as IMAX, IAC, Live Nation, iHeartMedia, Discovery and Spring- Hill Entertainment. He has also represented individual artists, athletes and others in media in numerous transactions, including LeBron James, Sean Combs, Madonna, Graydon Carter, The Weeknd, Martha Stewart, and Mike Tyson. Furthermore, Eric represents many of the top media and sports executives with respect to their employment arrangements, a clientele including Bob Iger, Jimmy Iovine, Jim Dolan, Josh Sapan, Richard Gelfond, Michael Levine, Howie Nuchow, Leon Rose, Erika Nardini, Rob Stringer, Jon Platt and Michael Rapino. n
ounding out the firm’s power trio of named Partners is Eric Sacks, who, as Head of the Corporate
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