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Gregory Akselrud
Greg Akselrud is a founder and partner of the firm, and group chair person of the Interactive Media and Videogames practice group. Greg received his B.A. from the University of California at Los Angeles, and his J.D., cum laude, from Loyola Law School, where he also served as Executive Editor of Loyola’s Entertainment Law Review. He is a member of the California Bar.
Greg advises a wide range of public and private clients across a number of industries, including companies in the entertainment, Internet, technology, and apparel industries.
Greg’s practice and experience includes:
- acting as strategic counsel to film and television production companies, representing their interests in investment transactions, joint ventures and mergers and acquisitions;
- advising entertainment, Internet, peer-to-peer and other technology clients in a variety of matters arising on the Internet or mobile networks, including, with respect to content licensing and exploitation, IP strategic counseling, Internet advertising and other revenue generating transactions (bundling, co-marketing and co-branding), and general website matters (preparation of terms of use or service and privacy policies, and compliance with the DMCA);
- serving as primary counsel to publicly-held and private companies, providing advice on all aspects of their business activities, including general corporate matters, securities law compliance, corporate governance matters, public and private issuances of securities (including angel, venture capital, private equity and debt securities offerings), mergers and acquisitions (including public reverse mergers), and joint ventures and strategic alliances;
- structuring commercial transactions and joint ventures in Europe and Asia for the purpose of licensing content and technology.
Greg is an Adjunct Professor of Law at Loyola Law School, Los Angeles, teaching Business Planning I: Financing the Start-Up Business and Venture Capital Financing.
Greg is the author of Hit Man: The Fourth Circuit’s Mistake in Rice v. Paladin Enters., Inc., 19 Loy. L.A. Ent. L.J. 375 (1999).
Representative clients and transactions include:
- Rdio (www.rdio.com) – an online music service
- Zdonk (www.zdonk.com) – a next-generation movie studio powered by movie fans
- doubleTwist Corporation (www.doubletwist.com) – a developer of media management software
- representation of Tapout, LLC (www.tapout.com), a leading mixed martial arts apparel company, in various trademark licensing initiatives
- representation of 51 Minds Entertainment (www.51minds.com), a leading reality television production company, in the sale of majority control to Endemol
- representation of Skype (www.skype.com), the world’s leading peer-to-peer Internet communications company, in connection with various co-marketing, co-branding and licensing transactions, and in connection with its original sale to eBay, Inc.
