Few industries are growing as rapidly or changing as quickly as the game industry. Our clients derive great value from working with a legal team that has lived with the industry throughout its development and has experience with companies in all market segments and across the world. Our lawyers share your passion for games, for your industry – and we use and play games.
We help our clients spot opportunities, identify issues before they arise and manage risk, enabling them to focus on the creative work they love. We commit to offering practical and timely advice, and we staff work efficiently, matching the right level of attorney experience to the needs of the project.
We have extensive experience in identifying emerging regulatory issues and assisting clients with cutting-edge questions that arise from gaming and interactive technologies. We help policymakers understand the nuances of the issues that come with these new technologies as well as the importance of preserving enduring legal and constitutional principles in this context. Our games team is part of a larger industry team that focuses on the arts and entertainment industries. This breadth of focus enables us to help clients develop relationships and secure agreements to exploit their work across multiple channels.
We also regularly work with gaming companies resident or distributing in Japan, Korea, China, Canada and Europe and assist them with their U.S. marketing and distribution efforts.
Our clients range from emerging companies with unique products and business models to global market leaders and include companies producing toys, casual games, consoles, video games, mobile games and online games (including MMORPGs). We provide a unified, end-to-end solution to your full range of needs, including:
- Game development and distribution contracts; creation, production and distribution agreements, including internationally outsourced development arrangements
- Intellectual property, including trademark and copyright registration and licensing
- Litigation, both to protect your creations from piracy and other IP infringement and to protect your business from being held up by others challenging your rights
- Advertising policies, agreements and insertion orders for print, Internet, television, radio and video games, as well as dynamic and static product placement agreements
- Assessment and advice for privacy issues
- Ongoing production counsel for the issues that arise during development
- Pre-publication review
- Corporate formation, funding and outside general counsel services
- Mergers and acquisitions
- Employment and immigration
- Tax planning, both domestic and international
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