Legal Niches

Game Law Professor Gets New Gig

By james_fudge

Law firm Reed Smith LLP has hired interactive entertainment lawyer Patrick Sweeney as counsel in its Corporate and Securities Group. Sweeney previously served as counsel at Nixon Peabody LLP, where he worked with the firm's interactive entertainment and new media team.

Prior to that he served as general counsel for Brash Entertainment LLC, where he handled major motion picture licenses. While at Brash, Sweeney negotiated 30 license agreements with major motion picture studios, supported Brash's $400 million investment, and negotiated a varied array of game development agreements, technology licenses and various supplemental agreements in regard to ancillary rights opportunities.

Prior to joining Brash, Sweeney was counsel at Haight, Brown and Bonesteel LLP, where he headed the firm's multimedia practice group; and senior corporate counsel at Vivendi Universal Games; and at Paramount Pictures Television Group. Read More

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Full post as published by GamePolitics.com on May 27, 2010 (boomark / email).