Amy Siegel

Partner

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Amy Siegel, Co-Head of O'Melveny's Entertainment, Sports and Media Industry Group, represents motion picture studios, television networks, distribution and production companies, sports organizations and other media clients in all business and legal aspects relating to the acquisition, financing, exploitation and management of media-related assets. Amy focuses her practice primarily on complex commercial licensing arrangements, with expertise in the use of intellectual property rights in connection with traditional and digital means of exploitation, theme parks and other location based entertainment venues, as well as sports and other live events. She also has broad experience advising US and international clients on the creation of strategic alliances, project financing and distribution, and industry-specific mergers and acquisitions.

Amy is serves on the Diversity Committee in the Century City office. She also devotes significant time to a dynamic pro bono practice.

Languages

  • Spanish

Honors & Awards

  • Recognized by The Legal 500 US in Sport and Media & Entertainment: Transactional (2020)
  • Named to The Hollywood Reporter’s “Power Lawyers” list (2020)
  • Named a Variety “Dealmaker” (2016, 2018-2020)
  • Selected by the Los Angeles Business Journal as one of its “Most Influential Women Lawyers” (2018)
  • Selected for inclusion in Variety’s Legal Impact Report (2018, 2020)
  • Featured in Variety’s “Power of Women L.A. Impact Report” (2016) 
  • Featured in “Leadership, Partnership, and Women in the Law: How This Firm Got it Right,” Ms. JD (2015)
  • Named an “Up Next Dealmaker” by Variety (2014)
  • Named a “Southern California Super Lawyers Rising Star” (2012)

Admissions

Bar Admissions

  • California

Education

  • Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, J.D./M.B.A.: cum laude; Sayre Macneil Scholar; Order of the Coif; Editor, Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review; St. Thomas More Law Honor Society
  • Emory University, B.B.A., Business: Valedictorian Graduate with Highest Distinction; Beta Gamma Sigma; National Society of Collegiate Scholars

Professional Activities

Externships

  • Honorable Rita Miller, Los Angeles Superior Court

Member

  • Board of Directors of the Dance Resource Center, Los Angeles
  • Female Executives in Media and Entertainment (FEME)
  • Themed Entertainment Association (TEA)
  • California Spirit Committee, American Cancer Society (2013-2015)
  • Advisory Committee of the UCLA Entertainment Symposium

Author

  • “Developments in the Law: Federal Jurisdiction and Forum Selection: Developments in Diversity Jurisdiction,” Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review (2004)

Speaker

  • Panelist, “View from the Top: TV & Entertainment Industry Deal-Makers Roundtable,” Future of Television Conference (September 2019)

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