SERVICES

At Knightsbridge, our associates specialize in negotiating the following deals and contracts:

 

Motion Pictures & TV
  • Copyright and depiction releases
  • Contracts for the submission or sale of literary materials (submission releases, NDAs, option/purchase deals, quitclaims etc.)
  • Employment contracts (writers, directors, producers, actors, crew, consultants etc.)
  • Collaboration deals (co-production deals, Joint Venture deals, writer collaboration deals etc.)
  • Music agreements & licenses (synch licenses, master use licenses etc.)
  • Financing deals (film security agreements, negative pickup deals, computation of net profits and payments thereof, finder deals, promissory notes, guarantees etc.)
  • Production contracts (location agreements, production services deals etc.)
  • Distribution and exhibition deals (purchase and distribution deals, exhibition deals, assignments, internet acquisition distribution deals etc.)
  • Merchandising deals (product placement deals, product releases, merchandising agreements etc.)
  • Briefing counsel/legal departments
  • Granting/assigning of TV rights
  • Pilot agreements and series options
  • TV show package deals
  • TV distribution deals
  • Broadcasting facilities agreements
  • MOW exhibition deals
Music
  • Mechanical licenses
  • Public performance licenses
  • Synch licenses
  • Print licenses
  • Single-song deals
  • Exclusive songwriter agreements
  • Co-publishing deals
  • Administration deals
  • Sub-publishing deals
  • Record label deals
  • Distribution deals
  • Production and sound recording deals
  • Master license deals
  • Streaming subscription licenses
  • Sampling licenses
  • Master recording purchase deals
  • Master use licenses for feature films
  • Personal manager deals
  • Studio rental deals
  • Recording producer deals
Literary Publishing
  • Publishing deals (between authors and publishers)
  • Distribution deals (between publishers and distributors)
  • Commissioned work deals
  • Paperback publishing deals
  • Co-publishing deals
  • International publication deals
  • Foreign publishing deals
  • Translation deals
  • Collaboration deals
  • Co-authorship deals
  • Book packaging/book producer deals
  • Textbook/educational book deals
  • eBook and audiobook publishing deals
Artwork
  • Contracts for the sale of artwork
  • Transfer deals
  • Co-ownership deals
  • Rental deals
  • Loan agreements for the exhibition of artworks
  • Assignments of artwork rights
  • Auction house consignment agreements
  • Conditions of sale for auctions
  • General consignment deals
  • Exhibit/Sale agreements
  • Artwork commissioning deals
  • Digital rights options
  • Illustration deals (and releases)
  • Artist publishing deals
  • Licenses for reproduction (e.g. the reproduction of specific oil paintings)
  • Exclusive licenses for the creation and sale of artworks
  • Art distribution deals
  • Artist-agent agreements
  • Artist-dealer agreements
  • Art licenses
  • Gallery representation deals
  • Assignments
  • Reproduction and distribution deals
  • Manufacturing deals
Joint Ventures, Partnerships, Corporate & Financing
  • Company alliance deals
  • Business alliance deals
  • JV deals
  • Partnership deals
  • Merger deals
  • Collaboration deals
  • Technology commercialization deals
  • GP agreements
  • LP agreements
  • Operating agreements
  • Partnership buy-sell agreements
  • Assets purchase deals (assets can include patents, copyrights, trademarks, employees, inventory, other agreements)
  • Schedules to asset purchase agreements
  • Stock purchase deals
  • Security agreements
  • Conditional assignment and security agreements
  • Notices of security interest in trademarks
  • Releases of security interest in trademarks
  • Loan agreements
  • License finance agreements
Licensing

Product Development: 

    • Concept licensing deals
    • Toy licensing
    • Joint product development deals

Patent & Tech Licensing:

    • Patent option deals
    • Patent licenses
    • Patent cross license deals
    • Sub-license deals
    • Beta test site deals for software/biotechnology programs
    • Clinical trial agreements

Endorsements & Merchandising:

    • Merchandising license deals
    • Celebrity license deals
    • Celebrity endorsement deals
    • Athlete endorsement deals
    • Right of publicity licenses
    • Brand license deals
    • International sports league license deals
    • Fantasy sports league license deals
    • Sports video game license deals
    • Foreign manufacturing consent deals
    • Master license deals
    • Terminating license deals

Promotion, Sponsorship & Advertising:

    • Advertising deals
    • Promotion deals
    • Joint promotion deals
    • Multi-property promotions licenses
    • Advertising agency contracts
    • Sponsorship deals
    • Digital entertainment sponsorship deals
    • Event-hosting deals

Assignments:

    • Author’s assignments
    • Royalty bearing product assignments
    • Assignments of photographer’s rights
    • Trademark assignments
    • Patent assignments
    • Copyright assignments
    • Technology license assignments
    • Technology assignments
    • Product designs assignments
    • Inventions assignments

Confidentiality Agreements:

    • Confidential disclosure agreements
    • Confidentiality and non-disclosure agreements
    • Mutual confidential disclosure agreements
    • Mutual nondisclosure
    • Nonsolicitation and exclusivity agreements
    • Model releases for adults/minors
    • Photograph/video releases

Employment Agreements:

    • Employment deals for senior management and executives
    • Employment, confidentiality and noncompete agreements
    • Inventions agreements for technical employees

Consulting Agreements:

    • Technical consultants
    • Bitcoin mining consultants
    • Software consultants
    • Licensing consultants
    • Website design consultants
    • Designer agreements
    • Independent contractor agreements
    • Package designer agreements
    • Termination agreements for executives

 

Agency & Other
  • Talent agency contracts
  • Personal management deals
  • Booking agent deals
  • Author-agent contracts
Crypto Currency
  • Bitcoin purchase deals
  • Master bitcoin purchase and sale agreements
  • Agreements for the sale of bitcoin dispensers
  • Bitcoin user agreements
Real Estate (Commercial)
  • Ownership entities (tenants-in-common deals, JV deals, GP deals, REIT deals etc.)
  • Acquisition and disposition of property (option agreements, letters of intent etc.)
  • Purchase agreements (whether for undeveloped land, sale of a leasehold or an installment sale)
  • Closing agreements (closing escrow agreements, various assignments etc.)
  • Financing agreements (promissory notes, Construction loan agreements, guaranties, buy-sell agreements, security agreements, indemnification agreements, mortgage extension agreements, lender’s agreements
  • Workouts (pre-negotiation agreements, workout agreements, loan purchase agreements etc.)
  • Operations of commercial real estate (management agreements, operating agreements, communications, franchising, senior housing and other miscellaneous agreements)
Real Estate (Residential)
  • Contracts with sales agents
  • Offers to purchase
  • Sale contracts
  • Assignments of interest in a sale
  • Settlements of conflicting claims
  • Seller’s disclosure notices
  • Installment sale contracts
  • Exchange agreements
  • Options to purchase
  • Various notices
  • Financing agreements (ordinary mortgages, deeds of trust, mortgage notes, assignments of mortgages, satisfaction/release/discharge of mortgages, extension of mortgages, subordination agreements, and foreclosure documents)
Construction

Financing:

    • Seller financing, ground lease and landlord financing, or subdivision financing
    • JV agreements
    • Partnership agreements
    • LP agreements
    • LLC agreements
    • Incorporation agreements
    • Loan agreements
    • Loan application and commitments
    • Mortgages
    • Deeds of trust and notes
    • Guarantees
    • Indemnification
    • Additional loan security
    • Appraisals
    • Evaluation and inspections
    • Workout agreements

Contracting:

    • Construction managers
    • General contractors
    • Demolition and site preparation contractors
    • Contractors for design-build and turnkey projects
    • Residential construction contractors
    • Subcontractors
    • Architects, consultants, engineers and surveyors
    • Environmental services agreements
    • Development agreements
    • Construction bids
    • Construction bonds
    • ADR agreements