Perkins Coie’s Digital Media & Entertainment, Gaming & Sports (DMEGS) lawyers partner with our established and emerging media, entertainment, and technology clients to provide legal solutions for the industry’s next-generation innovations. Our representation involves a strategic, multidisciplinary, and cross-functional approach. When clients make content available through pioneering technology, our lawyers provide tailored product launch counseling, regulatory review and counseling, technology development and licensing counseling, help ensuring compliance with platform requirements, assistance drafting terms of service and privacy policies, intellectual property (IP) protection and enforcement, commercial and IP litigation, and much more.  

Our lawyers bring extensive transactional knowledge and cutting-edge solutions to clients seeking new production, development, or distribution partners in complex licensing transactions, distribution arrangements, and strategic alliances. We are highly knowledgeable in the areas of mergers and acquisitions (M&A), financings, public company markets, cross-border transactions, and other corporate transactions. We regularly combine the deal execution experience of our M&A team with the proven capabilities of our technology transactions and IP lawyers, who are well-versed in advising gaming clients on hardware and software product launches while managing patent portfolios.