Digital Media & Entertainment, Gaming & Sports

Paving the way for entertainment across every medium.

Technology is pushing and reshaping the boundaries of the media and entertainment industry, creating new legal challenges.

Perkins Coie’s Digital Media & Entertainment, Gaming & Sports (DMEGS) lawyers partner with our established and emerging media, entertainment, and technology clients to provide legal solutions for the industry’s next-generation innovations. Our representation involves a strategic, multidisciplinary, and cross-functional approach. When clients make content available through pioneering technology, our lawyers provide tailored product launch counseling, regulatory review and counseling, technology development and licensing counseling, help ensuring compliance with platform requirements, assistance drafting terms of service and privacy policies, intellectual property (IP) protection and enforcement, commercial and IP litigation, and much more.

Our lawyers bring extensive transactional knowledge and cutting-edge solutions to clients seeking new production, development, or distribution partners in complex licensing transactions, distribution arrangements, and strategic alliances. We are highly knowledgeable in the areas of mergers and acquisitions (M&A), financings, public company markets, cross-border transactions, and other corporate transactions. We regularly combine the deal execution experience of our M&A team with the proven capabilities of our technology transactions and IP lawyers, who are well-versed in advising gaming clients on hardware and software product launches while managing patent portfolios.

We frequently represent

Innovative content creators.
Music and video streaming services.
Digital media companies.
Mobile and broadband providers.
Gaming studios.
eSports providers.
Social media influencers.
Brands.
Professional teams and leagues.

Our counsel drives progress in the digital sphere.

Interactive Entertainment

In the interactive entertainment sphere, we work with video game publishers, developers and distributors, content marketplaces, software tool developers, streaming platforms, console makers, and other gaming device companies of all sizes. We also advise clients in the mobile gaming space, including developers, social media applications, advertisers, advertising networks, and streaming platforms.

Immersive Technology

We work with companies exploring immersive technology for gaming, education, healthcare, and beyond. Committed to providing helpful insights to our clients, the Immersive Technology industry group recently produced its sixth annual XR Industry Insider Report.

Music, Film & Television

Our clients include music, film, and TV content providers, and we are skilled facilitators for their data, digital, and other technology legal needs. We are dedicated to assisting digital, streaming, and other technology distributors with their music, entertainment, and celebrity-backed initiatives.

Gaming

As gaming-related transactions rapidly expand, our client base does the same. We work with businesses including traditional brick-and-mortar companies, emerging digital gaming operators, and companies affiliated with gaming, such as payment processors, internet and data service providers, and social media platforms.

Sports

Our clients include major league teams, franchise owners, stadiums, universities and colleges, and esports platforms and games.