Aliya Nelson is a Partner and Co-Chair of Music Transactions and Licensing at Cowan, DeBaets, Abrahams & Sheppard LLP. She has over 20 years of experience at the intersection of law, business, and the music, entertainment, and media industries, including senior executive roles in marketing, advertising, and sports. Aliya has built her practice on supporting organizations at all stages,

Partner Leo M. Lichtman concentrates his practice in entertainment, intellectual property, and commercial law. Leo’s clients have ranged from start-ups to Fortune 500 companies, and include major and indie record labels and music publishers, performing artists, film and television producers and studios, photographers and visual artists, traditional and digital media companies, sports figures, software and

Josef Ghosn is a partner in the Litigation Group whose practice focuses on intellectual property, media, entertainment, and First Amendment matters. He advises media organizations, entertainment companies, and global brands on issues involving fair use, copyright, trademark, content licensing, free speech, and digital risk. Josef has extensive experience conducting pre-publication and pre-broadcast review for books, films,

Jason K. Berger is a Partner and Co-Chair of CDAS’s Corporate Practice Group. Mr. Berger has over two decades of experience representing clients on complex corporate legal matters and transactions, including, mergers, acquisitions and dispositions, equity and debt financings, partnerships, joint ventures and licensing deals. Mr. Berger represents companies, private equity funds, venture capital funds,

Joshua Sessler’s practice is at the intersection of digital media, entertainment and technology. Co-Chair of the firm’s Digital Media & Technology group, Josh has almost 20 years of experience advising entrepreneurs, investors, content owners and companies in the full range of corporate, intellectual property and internet technology legal matters. He represents a broad range of

Jean Albertis a partner whose transactional practice focuses on general corporate and regulatory compliance, international criminal law, intellectual property, financing, technology, securities, data privacy, data security and international law. He regularly advises companies, governments and NGOs on transactions that involve international legal issues. He has experience in over 90 countries assisting clients in international joint