Variety Names Eight O’Melveny Partners to its 2025 Legal Impact Report

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CENTURY CITY—April 11, 2025—Variety has named eight O’Melveny partners to its 2025 “Legal Impact Report,” which recognizes entertainment’s top dealmakers and litigators. The annual special report honored a four-partner team from O’Melveny’s Entertainment, Sports & Media Litigation Group and a four-partner team from O’Melveny’s Entertainment, Sports & Media & Transactions Group. The report also notes their excitement about the addition of multi-lingual attorney Leif Cervantes de Reinstein to their growing team.

The Litigation Team’s profile featured Trial Practice chair and firm vice chair Daniel Petrocelli, Entertainment, Sports & Media Group co-chair Molly Lens, partner Drew Breuder, and partner Tim Heafner. Variety recognized the team’s work on several headline-making matters.

Recognized among the nation’s most esteemed trial lawyers and strategic advisors, Petrocelli has a national trial practice counseling and representing clients in major litigation in a wide variety of areas, including entertainment, media, sports, antitrust, competition, business torts, insurance, securities, employment law, and criminal defense.

Lens is a versatile and accomplished lawyer with a broad litigation practice that spans copyright, employment, and other disputes in the entertainment and media space. Clients routinely turn to Lens to represent them not only in high-profile litigation but also to advise them on sensitive internal matters, including allegations of misconduct and discrimination.

Breuder is a highly skilled litigator who has extensive experience in a variety of areas, focusing on copyright, trademark, intellectual property, and entertainment and media.  In recent years, Breuder has advised and represented major motion picture  studios; television studios, networks, and streaming platforms; leading athletic footwear and apparel companies; satellite radio broadcasting companies; live sporting, music, and boxing promoters; and others in the entertainment and media industries.

Heafner is a go-to litigator and trusted advisor for clients in the entertainment, sports, and media industries, specializing in high-profile, complex litigation matters and profit-participation and licensing disputes. He has represented and advised major motion-picture studios, television studios, production companies, professional athletes, universities, boxing promoters, and other entertainment, sports, and media companies in connection with a wide variety of disputes.

The Transactions Team’s profile featured Entertainment, Sports & Media Group co-chair Amy Siegel, MediaTech Group co-chair Matthew Syrkin, partner Silvia Vannini, and partner Lindsay Conner. Variety recognized their work on numerous industry-shaping deals.

Siegel focuses her practice primarily on complex commercial licensing arrangements, with deep experience in the use of intellectual property rights in connection with film and television content exploitation, theme parks and other location based entertainment venues, sports and other live events, as well as marketing campaigns and unique branding initiatives. She also has broad experience advising US and international clients on industry-specific mergers and acquisitions, the creation of strategic alliances, and the launch of innovative products and services.

Syrkin specializes in delivering business and strategic legal counsel across a wide variety of commercial and corporate transactions. He is known for his pioneering work in structuring deals that are at the cutting-edge of technology, advertising, media, entertainment, sports, retail products and financial services. Syrkin’s practice is at the forefront of convergence, whether it’s helping define the future of interactive arena technologies or launching global streaming services.

Vannini advises public and private companies on mergers and acquisitions, securities, and general corporate matters, including corporate governance, both in and out of the entertainment industry. She regularly represents private equity funds, domestic and foreign companies, motion picture studios, television networks as well as entrepreneurial clients on a wide range of corporate transactions, including company formation and structuring, acquisitions, partnerships, joint ventures, strategic alliances, financings, and dispositions.

Conner is a leading corporate entertainment and sports lawyer, with a focus on film, television and digital programming. He has served as chief outside entertainment counsel for major film studios and television networks, global telecommunications companies, film and television production and distribution companies, rights owners and content owners, and digital media companies, as well as for banks, financial institutions, private equity funds and high-net-worth investors.

The Litigation Team’s profile can be viewed here, and the Transactions Team’s profile can be viewed here. 

O’Melveny has been synonymous with entertainment law since Hollywood’s Golden Age of the 1930s. The firm has repeatedly helped major players in film, television, digital media, production and distribution, technology, gaming, music, and finance forge groundbreaking deals and resolve high-profile disputes. As shifting financial models and technological advances transform today’s entertainment and media business, O’Melveny remains a firm of choice for industry leaders.

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