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MYMAN GREENSPAN
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ric Greenspan as his first major client. He still reps the surfer founded the music turned singer/songwriter, as well as Common, department of Erykah Badu and other high-profile acts, and what had been various execs, songwriters and producers. originally created Craig Marshall, who was recently made as a film-and-TV an equity partner, started his career at Prior- firm in 1987. His ity Records and was VP of Business Affairs first recording art- at Capitol before moving to Interscope; he ists were reggae credits his label background with providing
groups Toots and the Maytals, Steel Pulse him with a useful skill set for his practice. He and Burning Spear. He was subsequently currently reps such acts as the rap collective engaged by Red Hot Chili Peppers, who’ve BROCKHAMPTON, rocker Elle King and been with him since the dawn of their breakout newcomer CHIKA, along with illustrious career. (Eric insists the tube socks various songwriters and execs.
were not his idea.) Jewel—whom he first
saw in a coffee shop in San Diego—Stone n the early 2000s, Greenspan grew Temple Pilots, Jane’s Addiction, Ice-T, tired of spending endless nights at the Tool, Primus and Bad Religion were also Whisky and decided he needed some among Greenspan’s foundational clients, younger attorneys to go to the clubs and he considers himself extremely fortunate and check out bands. At a pivotal
to have been involved with these acts since
the infancies of their careers. Eric started sharp Harvard Law grad who was new on the promoting The Grateful Dead while still an scene, an ambitious 27-year-old named Aaron undergrad at Duke, and he’s celebrating the
50th anniversary of the show that set him
on his path—promoting a concert with The
BTeach Boys and The Dead. He currently
reps spinoff group Dead & Company.
CLIENT LIST:
RHCP
DEAD & COMPANY QOTSA DISTURBED
JACK JOHNSON ERYKAH BADU CHIKA
ELLE KING
JUSTIN BIEBER ARIANA GRANDE JOHN LEGEND
moment, he started hearing about a
he music department’s first hire was Jeff Light—whom Greenspan hails as “a game- changing lawyer.” Among the veteran attorney’s clients are major rock bands includ-
ing Queens of the Stone Age and Disturbed. 1999 saw the arrival from a New York entertainment-law firm of another Duke Blue
Devil, Francois Mobasser, with Jack Johnson
Rosenberg. While at Harvard Law School, Rosenberg had interned at Arista Records, and soon after becoming a practicing attorney, he’d met John Legend, who would become his first client. “I realized he wasn’t going into the Whisky to see a rock band,” Eric acknowl- edges, “but we figured out how to fit a round peg into a square hole by merging pop and hip-hop into the firm’s rock-heavy roster.” Along with Legend, Rosenberg’s clientele includes such mainstream stars as Justin Bieber, Ariana Grande and Jennifer Lopez.
Myman Greenspan’s non-equity partners are Josh Karp, Robert Minzner, Tamara Milagros-Butler and the recently promoted Audrey Benoualid.
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