Carolyn J. Casselman
Partner
A versatile transactional lawyer working across diverse media and platforms, Carrie Casselman draws on her experience in live stage, film, television, digital content, video games, and publishing to offer clients nimble, expert advice. Her practice covers multiple elements of the media and entertainment business, including representation of producers, financiers, underlying rightsholders, authors, publishers, and celebrity personalities. Carrie's clients in the performing arts include institutional nonprofit theaters and presenters as well as producers and financiers of commercial productions. Her transactional background also includes over a decade as a content specialist in mergers and acquisitions and financing transactions involving film and television libraries, production companies, music catalogs, sports teams, and media and sponsorship rights. Carrie has developed a strategic understanding of critical legal and business factors in the acquisition, production, distribution, financing and monetization of content, and brings that knowledge to bear across her practice. Whether licensing rights, negotiating production or distribution agreements, or reviewing chain of title, Carrie seeks transaction-based solutions to protect value and manage risk for her clients.
Media, Sports, and Entertainment Transactions
Corporate Transactions
Admitted to Practice
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New York, 2004
Education
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J.D., Columbia Law School, 2003
- Submissions Editor, Columbia Journal for Law and Arts
- James Kent Scholar
- Carroll G. Harper Prize
- Andrew D. Fried Prize
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M.F.A., Theatre Management and Producing, Columbia University School of the Arts, 2003, with honors
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A.B., International Relations, Stanford University, 1997
Memberships & Affiliations
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- Adjunct Assistant Professor, Columbia University School of the Arts, 2007-present
- Adjunct Assistant Professor, Columbia University School of the Arts, 2007-present
Professional Recognition
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- Named one of the "Best Lawyers in America" in Entertainment Law - Theater by Best Lawyers, 2023
Background
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- Counsel, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP, New York, 2004-2006, 2006-2020
- Associate, Davis Wright Tremaine, LLP, New York, 2006
- Law Clerk, Hon. Frank M. Coffin, U.S. Court of Appeals for the 1st Circuit, Portland, Maine, 2003-2004