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Anastasia Alen

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Counsel

T 310.425.1000 Culver City
Industry disruption creates opportunity, and I love taking advantage of a good opportunity.
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Anastasia Alen negotiates high-priority deals and transactions while providing strategic guidance for media and entertainment companies, independent producers, brands, and other content creators across critical stages of development, production, and exploitation.

Anastasia's practice includes all aspects of production legal (including drafting, structuring, and negotiating above-the-line, below-the-line, vendor, and other contracts; day-to-day counseling, strategic analysis, and risk management); agreement form creation, review, and analysis; high-level production legal oversight; content review; on-set legal counseling; content license review, analysis, and negotiation; rights analysis and contract interpretation; and other business and legal affairs services on an as-needed basis.

Anastasia leverages her unique combination of first-hand experience working for leading global entertainment companies and premier talent agencies to provide comprehensive business and legal counsel to clients. Her specialized knowledge enables Anastasia to anticipate issues and protect the legal, business, and creative interests of her clients, maximizing opportunities and advancing their goals. She also co-chairs RiseTogether, a DWT Project W initiative that brings together women in business and legal affairs in the media and entertainment industries.

Prior to joining DWT, Anastasia was vice president and a senior business affairs executive at William Morris Endeavor where she serviced the agency's multi-hyphenate and international clients including intellectual property rights holders, producers, writers, directors, and on-camera talent by structuring and leading the negotiation and closing process of high-profile deals. Additionally, her breadth of business affairs and legal experience in the entertainment industry includes serving as in-house counsel for Sony Pictures Entertainment. While at Sony, Anastasia worked on development and production legal transactions for the studio's theatrical motion picture divisions including Columbia Pictures and as point production attorney for Screen Gems.

Practice Highlights

Media content creation

Handles all legal facets and transactions pertaining to finance, development, production, and distribution of content within different budget levels crossing over between traditional and digital media.

Talent negotiation

Negotiates and finalizes above-the-line and below-the-line talent deals and agreements in connection with audiovisual projects, endorsements, branding/licensing, personal appearance, and other entertainment and media industry ventures.

Education

  • J.D., Entertainment and New Media Law, Loyola Law School, Los Angeles, 2013
    • First Honors Award
    • President, Entertainment & Sports Law Society
  • B.A., Communication, University of Southern California, Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, 2010, magna cum laude
    • Dean's List
    • Dean's Advisory Council
    • Order of Omega

Languages

  • Russian

Memberships & Affiliations

    • FEME (Female Executives in Media & Entertainment), 2023-present
    • MPTF (Motion Picture & Television Fund) NextGen, 2023-present
    • Media Law Resource Center Media Deals Committee, 2021-present
    • HollywoodWEST (Women Executives Stronger Together), 2018-present
    • Community Leadership Institute, 2017-present
    • Beverly Hills Bar Association, 2013-present

Professional Recognition

    • Selected to a list of "Ones to Watch" in Entertainment and Sports Law (Los Angeles) by Best Lawyers, 2024

Background

    • Senior Business Affairs Executive and Vice President, 2021; Senior Business Affairs Executive, 2019-2021; Business Affairs Executive, 2018-2019 – William Morris Endeavor, Beverly Hills, Calif.
    • Counsel, Legal Affairs, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Culver City, Calif., 2016-2018
    • Business Affairs Associate, United Talent Agency, Beverly Hills, Calif., 2014-2016
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