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Crespo Law Office supports creators, production companies, studios, and brands navigating the full lifecycle of content—from development and financing to production, distribution, and legacy exploitation.
The firm is a strategic partner in shaping culturally resonant stories while protecting the legal, financial, and creative interests of its clients. With proven experience across film, television, digital media, podcasts, music, branded content, and emerging platforms, we handle the complex agreements that move creative visions forward.
Services Include:
Business & Legal Affairs (BLA): Negotiating and drafting development, talent, production, distribution, and licensing agreements.
Production Counsel: Full production-legal support, including chain-of-title, clearances, location and releases, SAG-AFTRA, WGA, DGA, and insurance coordination.
Content Licensing & Distribution: Structuring rights sales, content acquisition and licensing, and output deals, with a focus on protecting backend and IP value.
Life Rights & Documentary Counsel: Life-rights agreements, fair-use review, archive/photo licensing, access agreements, and sensitive-subject protection.
Production Finance & Tax Incentives: Film tax credit guidance, investor agreements, PPMs, budgeting legalities, and financing structures.
Executive & Talent Representation: Attaching talent, drafting LOIs, negotiating deal terms, credit, backend, and exclusivity.
Every deal is approached with the intention of preserving culture, protecting creative control, and maximizing long-term value—because each client’s story deserves an advocate who understands both the business and the artistry behind it.
The corporate and IP practice supports entrepreneurs, production companies, creative businesses, and emerging brands in building structurally sound, scalable operations that protect their most valuable asset: their intellectual property.
We help transform ideas into legally protected enterprises with strong compliance frameworks, and forward-looking IP strategies that support growth and long-term monetization.
Services Include:
Business Formation & Structuring: LLCs, S-corps, multi-member partnerships, operating agreements, founder agreements, equity splits, and corporate governance.
Corporate Counsel Support: Contract drafting/negotiation, outside general counsel services, compliance guidance, and business expansion support.
Intellectual Property Protection & Strategy: Trademark filing, prosecution, enforcement, brand protection, licensing, merchandising arrangements, and rights management.
Content/IP Licensing: Structuring deals for brand partnerships, endorsements, collaborations, content licensing, franchise expansion, and digital media usage.
M&A and Business Succession Strategy: Due diligence, transition planning, and asset transfers for businesses.
Crespo Law Office ensures your company is built on a stable legal foundation, your brand is protected from infringement, and your IP is positioned to generate revenue across multiple verticals.
The firm’s trust and estate planning practice centers on legacy, cultural preservation, and multi-generational wealth protection for entertainers, athletes, entrepreneurs, and families with complex personal and business portfolios. We understand the unique challenges public figures and creative professionals face—unpredictable income streams, IP ownership, royalties, brand rights, and multi-state assets—and craft tailored plans designed to secure both financial and cultural legacies.
We help clients transform their intellectual property, businesses, real estate, and personal values into structures that protect their families and preserve their impact for generations.
Services Include:
Comprehensive Estate Planning: Revocable trusts, wills, powers of attorney, advance directives, and guardianship planning.
Specialized Planning for Talent & Creatives: Legacy trusts for music catalogs, film/TV residuals, NIL rights, image/likeness rights, digital content libraries and charitable planning.
Business Succession Planning: Structuring buy-sell agreements, ownership transitions, and leadership continuity for entertainment companies, production entities, and family-owned businesses.
Asset Protection & Tax Strategy: Irrevocable Trusts, Grantor-Retained Trusts, Dynasty Trusts.
Trust Administration & Heir/Beneficiary Advisory: Supporting trustees and heirs in managing inherited creative assets, royalties, and rights-of-publicity estates.
Our approach is holistic, culturally conscious, and rooted in protecting what matters most: your voice, your values, and the economic foundation that supports your family and your legacy.
We provide Fractional General Counsel and Business & Legal Affairs support to growing companies, production entities, studios and creative businesses that need high-level legal strategy without the cost of full-time in-house counsel. We oversee contracts, compliance, corporate governance, risk management, and day-to-day legal operations—delivering responsive, business-minded guidance that helps teams scale confidently, protect their assets, and move projects forward with clarity and precision.