Greg Akselrud

Greg Akselrud is a founder and partner of the Firm. He chair’s the Firm’s Internet, New Media and Entertainment practice group.

Greg advises a wide range of public and private clients across a number of industries, including companies in the entertainment, Internet, technology, and apparel industries.

Greg’s practice involves providing advice in connection with general corporate matters (including company formation, stock incentive plans, executive employment agreements, and various commercial and business contracts), venture capital and angel financings, mergers and acquisitions (including public reverse mergers), private equity and debt securities offerings, public offerings, federal and state securities law reporting requirements, intellectual property strategic counseling, Internet and e-commerce matters, and entertainment, content and digital media transactional matters.

Greg’s practice and experience includes:

• acting as strategic counsel to film and television production companies, representing their interests in investment transactions, joint ventures and mergers and acquisitions;
• advising entertainment, Internet, peer-to-peer and other technology clients in a variety of matters arising on the Internet or mobile networks, including, with respect to content licensing and exploitation, Internet advertising and other revenue generating transactions (such as bundling, co-marketing and co-branding), and general website matters (such as the preparation of terms of use or service and privacy policies, and compliance with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act);
• advising apparel companies in a variety of corporate and strategic licensing transactions;
• serving as primary counsel to publicly-held companies, providing advice on all aspects of their business activities, including securities law compliance, corporate governance matters, public and private issuances of securities, mergers and acquisitions (including counseling both public and private clients in reverse merger and/or exchange transactions with public shell companies (i.e., alternative public offerings), and joint ventures and strategic alliances;
• structuring commercial transactions and joint ventures worldwide (including Europe and Asia) for the purpose of licensing content and technology.

Greg is an Adjunct Professor of Law at Loyola Law School, Los Angeles, teaching Business Planning I: Financing the Start-Up Business and Venture Capital Financing.

Greg is the author of Hit Man: The Fourth Circuit’s Mistake in Rice v. Paladin Enters., Inc., 19 Loy. L.A. Ent. L.J. 375 (1999).

Greg received his B.A. from University of California at Los Angeles and his J.D., cum laude, from Loyola Law School. He is a member of the California Bar.