Avocats – United States

Rob Rust

Moore & Van Allen, PLLC

Robb Klein

Robb Klein is a partner in the firm's prestigious Entertainment, Technology and Advertising Practice Group which is ranked in the top tier by both Chambers USA and the Legal 500 U.S.. After initially practicing in London at a leading European firm, he joined Sheppard in 2008 and became the practice group leader for several years in 2018. Robb specializes in all aspects of entertainment and media law, particularly film and television financing, production and distribution, merchandising and the licensing of rights, and digital media and streaming. As well as working with U.S. companies, he services a global client base, in particular companies from the UK, the EU and Asia doing business in the U.S. He provides practical and commercial advice to help clients achieve their business objectives. Over his legal career, Robb has worked on the development, financing, production and distribution of hundreds of feature films, from small independent movies to studio blockbusters. He has also worked on numerous deals utilizing tax incentives around the world, and specializes in structuring international co-productions. His work for financiers includes acting for banks, institutional investors, high net worth individuals, tax funds and hedge funds, often involving secured lending and complex multi-party financing arrangements. Robb also represents studios, independent production companies, videogame companies, animation houses and rights owners. He advises on carriage deals, chain of title and copyright issues, development agreements, co-financing agreements, output agreements, first-look agreements, re-make deals, rights acquisition agreements, format rights and television licensing agreements, sales agency and distribution agreements. He has also acted as production counsel on many films and television series. With regard to digital business, Robb advises companies on their online commercial arrangements, from terms and conditions to commercial supply and advertising agreements, and on digital content production, licensing and the use of AI. He has represented both digital platforms and content owners and creators. He also advises computer games developers in their dealings with publishers and on other types of software licensing. Alongside Sheppard's highly regarded corporate media practice, Robb has worked on many significant corporate deals in the media sector including IPOs, strategic investments and mergers and acquisitions of companies in the film, television, music, computer games, mobile and video on demand sectors. Robb is a qualified solicitor, licensed to practice in England and Wales.

Sheppard

Robb Patryk

Robb is a trial lawyer and serves as the firm’s Managing Partner. He also is a member of the firm's Executive Committee - He focuses on complex litigation related to tort and fraud claims involving the sale of consumer, industrial, and medical products and securities. Robb has over 30 years of experience in the national and international defense of numerous mass torts involving prescription drugs, medical devices, pesticides, asbestos, tobacco, dietary supplements, machinery, blood products, specialty chemicals, motor vehicles and petroleum products. Robb has significant knowledge in particular of the pharmaceutical, medical device, tobacco, and specialty chemical industries, and serves as a trusted advisor to companies in those arenas in navigating the legal and regulatory challenges presented. His many significant matters include the defense of Merck & Co. Inc. in Vioxx and Vytorin litigation, the defense of an oil refiner in MTBE litigation, the defense of Ferro Corp. in multiple, alleged water contamination cases involving 1,4 dioxane, and multiple jury trials for Lorillard Tobacco Company. Robb was Co-Chair of the firm’s Product Liability & Toxic Tort Group from 1999 - 2023. Read his full bio.

Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP

Robb Tretter

Robb Tretter is a partner in Proskauer’s Mergers & Acquisitions Group. Robb advises private investment firms, corporations and financial institutions on a broad range of corporate matters, including mergers and acquisitions, private equity investments, financing arrangements, securities law compliance, corporate governance and general corporate matters. He has extensive experience assisting clients through private and public takeovers, restructurings, reorganizations, and special situations, both in the U.S. and internationally. Robb regularly advises clients on private capital deployment, especially in preferred equity investments (including into fund structures), as well as asset and stock purchases and sales, often in the context of leveraged buyouts, recapitalizations and restructurings. His clients span diverse industries, including airlines, technology, healthcare, manufacturing, leisure, chemicals and financial services. Since 2017, Robb has served as an adjunct professor at New York University School of Law, where he teaches a course on special situations.

Proskauer Rose LLP

Robert A Karin

Partner/Co-Chair

Davis+Gilbert LLP

Robert A. Atkins

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Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP

Robert A. Britton

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Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP

Robert A. Jacobs

Robert Jacobs is a litigation partner in the Firm’s Los Angeles office and the leader of the Firm’s entertainment litigation practice. Chambers USA has recognized him as one of the country’s preeminent entertainment litigators, emphasizing that his “litigation work is of the highest level” and that “he is informed on legal issues” and “pragmatic, reliable and proactive.” Legal 500 also has recognized Robert as a Leading Lawyer for entertainment and media litigation and described him as a “superb team leader” whose group “always over-performs and never over-lawyers” and who is “results oriented and second to none.” Robert focuses his practice on commercial, copyright and other intellectual property disputes in the entertainment, media and fine art industries. He has successfully represented top-level talent as well as major record labels and music publishers, movie studios, theatrical rights owners, managers, talent agencies, and brands in copyright, contract, Seven Year Rule, fraud, tortious interference, fiduciary duty, idea theft, trademark, right of publicity, unfair competition, labor agreement, and royalty actions in federal and state courts and arbitrations across the country. He also regularly handles and provides strategic advice on nonpublic claims and disputes. His clients have included leading recording artists, songwriters and producers such as Kendrick Lamar, the White Stripes, Bruce Springsteen, Diplo, Marshmello, Bastille, SZA, Usher, will.i.am, Tracy Chapman, Steve Mac, Fall Out Boy, Jermaine Dupri, Los Tigres Del Norte and Fleet Foxes; all of the major music companies; independent record labels Top Dawg Entertainment and 300 Entertainment; independent publishers BMG Rights Management, Downtown and Reservoir; and other prominent entities in the entertainment and fine arts industries, including Tams-Witmark, CBS Studios, Univision Communications, Lionsgate, Good Universe Films, Mandate Pictures and the Richard Avedon Foundation. Robert previously was a law clerk to the Honorable Gregory W. Carman, U.S. Court of International Trade.

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP

Robert A. Killip

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Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP

Robert A. Madayag

Lee & Hayes, PC

Robert A. Zink

Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP

Robert Addison

Robert Addison is a business litigator representing banks and financial institutions, corporate entities large and small, consumer products companies, and fiduciaries in business litigation matters in both state and federal courts. He has wide-ranging experience in general business and commercial litigation matters, including banking operations, banking and mortgage fraud, corporate litigation arising from the purchase and sale of businesses, partnership and joint venture disputes, corporate trustee litigation, real property disputes, film finance disputes, unfair competition, intellectual property claims, class actions, and provisional remedies, among many others. Mr. Addison is also an experienced appellate lawyer, having successfully handled appeals at all levels, including before the California Supreme Court. Among the representative litigation matters Mr. Addison has handled are defense of claims for hundreds of millions of dollars arising out of fraud and Ponzi schemes, prosecution of plaintiff’s fraud claims on behalf of financial institutions, prosecution and defense of contractual and partnership claims between corporate entities and their principals, complex litigation representing corporate trustees arising out of management and investment of trust assets, litigation arising out of fraud and the removal of operating partners in a portfolio of real property assets worth hundreds of millions of dollars, defense of class actions, and numerous other complex business litigation matters. In addition to his role as the Firm’s General Counsel, Mr. Addison leads Buchalter’s Litigation Practice Group as Firmwide Chair and serves on the firm’s Board of Directors.

Buchalter Law Firm

Robert Alessi

Partner; Global Vice Chair, Energy Sector

DLA Piper LLP (US)

Robert Anello

Robert J. Anello has litigated in the federal and state courts for more than thirty years. He focuses his practice on white collar criminal defense, securities and regulatory enforcement matters, complex civil litigation, internal investigations and reviews, and employment discrimination and sexual harassment. Bob is widely recognized for his skills as a criminal and civil trial and appellate attorney, his ability to negotiate effectively on behalf of his clients, and his efficiency and discretion in conducting investigations and reviews on behalf of a wide variety of institutions. He has acted as independent, outside counsel and consultant in a number of matters including to a Big Four accounting firm and a major global financial institution in connection with those firms’ participation in SEC Look-Back Programs, which have included reviews of the firms’ internal compliance programs.

Morvillo Abramowitz Grand Iason & Anello P.C.

Robert Appleby

Robert Appleby is a partner in the intellectual property litigation group. Robert's practice focuses on intellectual property litigation, including litigation involving patents, copyrights, trade secrets and related contract, unfair competition, and antitrust claims in state and federal courts. Robert primarily represents clients in matters involving the electrical arts, such as internet data networking, wireless telephony, audio and video compression, optical amplifiers, electroluminescent phosphors, internet browsers and software, and has considerable experience in jury trials concerning these technologies. In addition, Robert has experience in design patent matters, including representing a client in a jury trial in defense of a design patent infringement claim. Robert also focuses a significant portion of his practice on appellate litigation involving intellectual property issues.

Kirkland & Ellis LLP

Robert Archie Jr.

Partner

Duane Morris LLP

Robert B. Bell

Senior Counsel in the Washington, D.C. Office

Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP

Robert B. Greco

Robert Greco, director at Richards, Layton & Finger, advises corporations, boards and committees on M&A transactions and corporate governance matters involving public and private corporations. Rob advises clients on a broad range of transactions and corporate governance matters involving Delaware corporations, including mergers, acquisitions, de-SPAC transactions and other business combinations, hostile takeovers, rights plans, proxy contests and stockholder meetings, charter and bylaw amendments, internal restructurings, equity and debt financings, dividends, stock repurchases and redemptions, and dissolutions. As part of his practice, Rob renders legal opinions on various matters of Delaware law. Rob is a member of the Mergers and Acquisitions Committee of the ABA Business Law Section and frequently writes and presents on emerging Delaware corporate law issues. Rob’s works include A Corporate Governance Solution to the Inefficiencies of Entire Fairness, a recent article in The Business Lawyer proposing a novel solution to address recent Delaware cases confirming the entire fairness standard’s broad application to controller transactions through standing demand review committees of independent directors. Rob has written on corporate law issues in numerous other publications, including as a contributor to the leading Delaware corporate law treatise The Delaware Law of Corporations and Business Organizations. As co-author of chapter 7 of this prominent treatise, Rob has written extensively on all aspects of stockholder meetings under Delaware law. Rob’s other articles have been published in The Delaware Journal of Corporate Law, Insights, The Review of Securities & Commodities Regulation, Business Law Today, Directors & Boards, The CLS Blue Sky Blog and other legal publications. Among them are Drafting Minutes and Preparing Disclosures in the Post-Corwin Era, which reviews modern best practices for corporate minute taking in light of Delaware law developments and trends, and Determining and Disclosing the Effect of Broker Non-Votes, which provides important technical guidance for corporate practitioners on an often-scrutinized part of proxy statements. While Rob principally counsels on transactional matters, he is frequently involved in litigation before the Delaware Court of Chancery as part of his practice. Rob’s involvement in Delaware litigation has included assistance with post-transaction litigation support and advising and developing litigation strategy on complex issues of corporate and contract law. In the widely covered appeal Moelis & Co. v. West Palm Beach Firefighters’ Pension Fund, Rob represented an esteemed group of law professors who filed an amicus brief in favor of reversal based on Delaware’s traditional ripeness principles. Rob has also prepared and overseen petitions in the Delaware Court of Chancery seeking the validation of defective corporate acts pursuant to Section 205 of the DGCL. Outside of court, Rob has extensive experience ratifying defective corporate acts pursuant to Section 204 of the DGCL. A graduate of Columbia Law School, Rob received Columbia’s Parker School Certificate for Achievement in International and Comparative Law after studying at the University of Oxford during law school. Rob attended Oxford as part of the Columbia-Oxford Alliance in Law and Finance, where he participated in a program taught jointly by Oxford’s Faculty of Law and Saïd Business School. While a law student, Rob worked as an intern for the Honorable Paul A. Crotty of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York and the Investor Protection Bureau of the New York State Office of the Attorney General. PRACTICES Legal Opinions Transactional Committees Corporate Governance Corporate Transactions Mergers & Acquisitions Corporate & Chancery Litigation

Richards, Layton & Finger, P.A.

Robert B. Schumer

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Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP

Robert Bach

Senior Counsel

Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner

Robert Barnes

Senior Counsel - Corporate and Finance Transactions

Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner

Robert Baron

Robert H. Baron has handled major commercial cases brought as individual and class actions in federal and state courts, including the representation of major domestic and foreign issuers and financial institutions in litigation related to securities offerings and trading, complex structured financing transactions and mergers and acquisitions.

Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP

Robert Bergdolt

Partner; Managing Partner of DLA Piper's Raleigh Office

DLA Piper LLP (US)

Robert Berkson

Senior Associate

Withers