Bech-Bruun’s media and entertainment group possesses the bandwidth to handle the entire breadth of matters concerning social media, TV, film, music, gaming, entertainment, and rights administration, among others. Licensing matters, dispute resolution and transactional work are core specialisms of the ‘strong team’. ’Outstanding expert’ Niels M. Andersen lends his extensive knowledge to all types of matters concerning IT, telecoms, technology and commercial contracts, as well as entertainment, film and music. Andersen jointly heads up the team alongside M&A specialist Claus Aagaard Nielsen, who is noted for his expertise in high-end transactions in the fashion, e-commerce and pharmaceutical industries, and the TMT and energy sectors.
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‘Niels M. Andersen is super.'
‘The Bech-Bruun team is very responsive and provides high quality services.'
‘Niels M. Andersen is an outstanding expert.’
‘A strong team with access to relevant resources that can support our business.’
Key clients
- Various performing artists
- Samsung
- HI3G
- Microsoft
- Alchemist
- Motion Picture Licensing Company (MPLC)
- CBS (Film studio)
- UIP (Film studio)
- Viaplay Group
- Kvadrat
Work highlights
- Providing ongoing legal assistance to Viaplay Group (recently renamed from Nordic Entertainment Group/NENT - listed in Stockholm), including in respect of media and entertainment, corporate matters and M&A, competition law, commercial agreements and GDPR matters.
- Providing ongoing legal assistance to Samsung relating to entertainment including Samsung TV, Galaxy mobile phones, platforms and other entertainment related matters.
- Representing large US film studios such as Disney, Paramount, MIRAMAX and Universal.
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