Counsel (Business Affairs)

Join a dynamic entertainment company as a Counsel (Business Affairs). In this role, you will be responsible for negotiating, drafting, and tracking a high volume of legal agreements related to entertainment, technology, and intellectual property. You will work closely with internal business clients and senior in-house counsel, providing day-to-day legal and business affairs counsel to creative business units. This is a unique opportunity to gain broad knowledge of the videogame business and work across multiple practice areas.

• Negotiate, draft, and track a high-volume of legal agreements relating to entertainment, technology, intellectual property and related matters.
• Draft, analyze and negotiate commercial agreements for all aspects of entertainment content creation, production, marketing and distribution.
• Advise internal clients regarding general business and contract issues, as well as copyright, technology, corporate, regulatory and related matters.
• Must possess common sense, patience, good humor, and a commitment to teamwork
• Expertise in contracting issues, with excellent drafting skills
• Experience with complex corporate or intellectual property transactions, including content creation, production, clearance, marketing and distribution
• Experience with entertainment or technology matters, or significant corporate experience with a strong desire to transition to entertainment and technology matters
• Must have the ability and desire to evaluate and advise on complex agreements and contractual issues
• Remains calm and confident despite deadlines and challenging priorities
• Enthusiasm for the videogame industry
• Strong communication skills; ability to convey complex matters in clear terms to clients and colleagues
• Qualified and in good standing with the State Bar of New York
• 3-5+ years experience in-house or within a law firm