We help storytellers tell their stories
The Kelley Firm, PLLC
entertainment
From option to distribution, scripted or unscripted, we help our clients secure IP rights, hire talent, negotiate with the guilds, manage the myriad of legal issues that arise during production, negotiate the distribution agreement, and provide legal deliverables.
On the production finance side, we structure debt and equity financing for our client's projects.
The Kelley Firm, PLLC is a full-service law firm based in New York, with a focus on helping storytellers tell their stories. O’Brien Kelley, the firm’s founder and principal, brings to the firm over 20 years’ sterling transactional and litigation experience in working with entertainment and corporate clients to achieve their goals. From selecting and establishing the appropriate corporate entity for a specific project, to securing IP rights, hiring cast and crew, supporting scripted and unscripted projects from development to production to distribution, The Kelley Firm, PLLC offers its clients exceptional legal advice at competitive rates.
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Elizabeth Martin, Of Counsel at the firm, brings a wealth and transactional knowledge to her practice, advising not-for-profit entities and film/television production companies on a wide range of legal issues and works with her clientd closely, at each step in the formation, production and delivery process, to produce the best outcome.